diagnostics-development

diagnostics-development is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from biomejs/biome. It costs 55 tokens per session (941 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Guidance for designing messages that explain problems to Biome users, including error text, notes, code locations, severity, and suggested actions. A diagnostic is a structured explanation of what went wrong and what the user can do.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when implementing or changing Biome parser, service, command-line, configuration, lint, assist, or infrastructure diagnostics.
Why use it?
It helps make errors understandable and actionable instead of presenting vague or incomplete messages. It also helps choose the right diagnostic structure for the part of the software producing the message.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/biomejs/biome/diagnostics-development
Any agent
npx skills add biomejs/biome --skill diagnostics-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/biomejs/biome

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 diagnostics-development

README.md
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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 941 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00055 $0.00941
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00470
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00188
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00094

Measured 3d ago against content hash d38007117f05, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

diagnostics-development 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 3d 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/diagnostics-development/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Diagnostics Development

Use crates/biome_diagnostics/CONTRIBUTING.md as the canonical API and design guide. Inspect current diagnostics in the same subsystem before choosing an advice type or derive shape.

Choose the Diagnostic API

Use RuleDiagnostic for lint and assist rules. Use a standalone type deriving Diagnostic when a parser, service, CLI, configuration, or infrastructure boundary needs its own structured diagnostic.

Do not introduce a standalone type solely to wrap a one-line lint message. Do not force a complex diagnostic with locations, sub-diagnostics, or conditional advice into a RuleDiagnostic chain when an owned type expresses the contract more clearly.

Three Questions

A complete diagnostic answers:

  1. What condition was found?
  2. Why does it matter?
  3. What can the user do?

Keep those jobs separate:

  • the primary message identifies the condition;
  • a note or detail explains the consequence or rationale;
  • an action, diff, command, or final advice gives the next step.

Do not combine rationale and remediation into vague prose. When an automated action exists, its label normally carries the remediation rather than repeating it in a note.

Messages and Markup

  • Name the actual problem, not only the syntax construct.
  • Highlight the smallest source range that helps the user understand it.
  • Interpolate values directly in markup!; do not allocate with format! first.
  • Use emphasis for source terms or configuration values where it improves scanning.
  • Keep the primary message short; put explanation in advice.
  • Do not claim a consequence the implementation does not establish.

Advice Selection

Choose advice based on the information users need:

Need Mechanism
Explanation or next step note or log advice
Point to a related source span detail or code-frame advice
Show an exact textual change diff advice or code action
Show a command to run command advice
Extra opt-in context verbose advice

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 lines

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. 3d ago First seen · 102 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A d38007117f05

Subscribe to this mod's changes

diagnostics-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository biomejs/biome (25,686 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 941 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.

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