What is birdcc-installer?

An installer for BIRD 2/3 editor support and its command-line tool. BIRD is a programming language, and the support can include syntax highlighting, which colors code, or language-server features such as editor assistance.

Use it to detect an editor and install BIRD support for VS Code-like editors, Vim, Neovim, or JetBrains through verified packages and offline VSIX files.

It helps install the right kind of BIRD support for the developer's editor without confusing highlighting packages with language-server tools.

birdcc-installer — Skill for Codex by bird-chinese-community

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 bird-chinese-community/BIRD.skills --skill birdcc-installer

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bird-chinese-community/BIRD.skills

Made for: Codex.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin birdcc-installer — /plugin install birdcc-installer after adding the marketplace above.

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.

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.

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Per session 112 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 850 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00112	$0.00850
Opus 5.5	$0.00045	$0.00340
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00022	$0.00170
Haiku 4.5	$0.00011	$0.00085

Measured 2mo ago against content hash f8a4aa9d20f1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

birdcc-installer 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 2mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/check_cli.py, scripts/detect_editor.py, scripts/detect_ide.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

birdcc-installer/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

BIRD Tooling Installer

Detect the actual editor, separate syntax highlighting from language-server features, and use only verified upstream package and extension identities.

Safety

Detection is read-only. Run detect_ide.py --install --confirmed only after showing the exact command and receiving explicit approval.
Do not claim a marketplace entry exists unless it is present in the upstream manifest or current registry.
Do not use dev.birdcc.idea; there is no verified native JetBrains plugin with that ID. Use the TextMate bundle workflow.
Prefer released marketplace packages and tagged Vim/Neovim repositories. Use local source builds only when the user explicitly wants development versions.

Workflow

If the editor is not named, run:
```
uv run scripts/detect_editor.py --root .
uv run scripts/detect_ide.py
```
Add --include-home to detect_editor.py only when home-directory signals are useful.
Choose the capability:
- VS Code-like full language tooling → birdcc.bird2-lsp;
- TextMate highlighting → birdcc.vscode-bird2-conf;
- both → install both or the birdcc.bird2-extension-pack;
- Neovim/Vim highlighting → BIRD.nvim / BIRD.vim;
- Neovim LSP → additionally install @birdcc/cli and wire birdcc lsp --stdio;
- JetBrains → import the TextMate bundle and use the CLI separately.
Read references/editors.md for exact editor steps or references/cli.md for CLI installation.
Show install → capability → verification. Do not list unrelated editors unless the user is choosing between them.
For blocked registries or air-gapped hosts, read references/offline.md.

Bundled scripts

scripts/detect_editor.py — infer editor signals from the workspace, optional home config, and git core.editor.
scripts/detect_ide.py — detect installed VS Code-like and JetBrains applications, inspect the BIRD extension-pack state by default, and generate safe onboarding actions. Use --vscode-extension only when checking one specific component.
scripts/check_cli.py — report the installed birdcc path and version.

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 lines

Files

What ships with it

12 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.

2mo ago First seen · 84 lines · 112 tokens per session scan A f8a4aa9d20f1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

birdcc-installer is a skill published in the GitHub repository bird-chinese-community/BIRD.skills (7 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 112 tokens to every session and 850 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 2026-08-31.

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