python-patterns

python-patterns is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Benkapner/claude-code-basecamp. It costs 44 tokens per session (324 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of team conventions for Python projects covering credentials, API clients, response parsing, tests, and data pipelines. API clients are programs that communicate with services such as GitHub, Stripe, or language-model providers.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps structure Python integrations, validate credentials and API responses, retry temporary failures, write mocked tests, and organize data-processing pipelines.
Why use it?
It helps avoid common reliability and security mistakes, such as hardcoded secrets, missing timeouts, unchecked responses, and tests that call real external services.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps structure Python integrations, validate credentials and API responses, retry temporary failures, write mocked tests, and organize data-processing pipelines.

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Any agent
npx skills add Benkapner/claude-code-basecamp --skill python-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Benkapner/claude-code-basecamp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 324 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00044 $0.00324
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00130
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00065
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00032

Measured 1mo ago against content hash f8a8b5200b60, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

python-patterns scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/python-patterns/SKILL.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

Python Patterns — Team Conventions

Unified conventions for team Python projects: credential management, API clients, testing discipline, and data pipeline structure. Supplements standard patterns with team-specific rules.

When to Activate

  • Writing credential/secret handling code or .env files
  • Creating or modifying API clients (GitHub, Stripe, LLM APIs)
  • Parsing LLM responses or structured API outputs
  • Writing or reviewing tests (TDD workflow, mocking external APIs)
  • Building or debugging data pipeline stages
  • Reviewing code that handles HTTP responses or LLM output

Quick Rules

Credentials:

  • Never hardcode or use real defaults. Fail fast if missing. Always create .env.example.

APIs:

  • Always timeout (30s). Only retry transient errors (429, 5xx). Always validate response structure.

Tests:

  • Mock external APIs. Set random_state=42. Target 80%+ coverage. Test behavior, not internals.

Pipelines:

  • Each stage is independently runnable. Validate input before processing. Include metadata in every output. Fail fast on invalid data.

Details

Read references/credentials.md, references/api-clients.md, references/testing.md, and references/pipelines.md for full examples and anti-patterns.

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 37 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A f8a8b5200b60

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python-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository Benkapner/claude-code-basecamp (17 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 324 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-04.

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