instruction-placement

instruction-placement is a skill for Claude Code from benthamite/dotfiles. It costs 102 tokens per session (233 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide for deciding where to save rules, preferences, corrections, workflows, or facts for future coding-agent sessions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Choosing how and where to record project guidance or remembered information for agents.
Why use it?
It helps persistent instructions be stored where later sessions can find them, reducing repeated explanations.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Good fit Choosing how and where to record project guidance or remembered information for agents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/benthamite/dotfiles/instruction-placement
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add benthamite/dotfiles --skill instruction-placement
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/benthamite/dotfiles

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for instruction-placement

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for instruction-placement

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 233 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 unknown 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 $0.00102 $0.00233
Opus 5.5 $0.00041 $0.00093
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00047
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00023

Measured 10d ago against content hash 5de9af781514, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

instruction-placement 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 10d 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.

claude/skills/instruction-placement/SKILL.md · 18 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 10d ago First seen · 18 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A 5de9af781514

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instruction-placement is a skill published in the GitHub repository benthamite/dotfiles (12 stars, last pushed 7d ago), with no licence file. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 233 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-10-07.

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