config

Project-local settings for Smith, stored in a YAML file named `.smith.local.yaml` at the project root. YAML is a plain-text format for writing configuration values.

In plain words
What is it for?
Choose where Smith writes research, plans, and reports, and control options such as automatic plan review and Git history analysis.
Why use it?
It keeps project preferences separate from shared source code and lets Smith commands use the right output folders and research settings.

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/brettbuddin/claude-plugins/config
Any agent
npx skills add brettbuddin/claude-plugins --skill config
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brettbuddin/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 685 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 $0.00060 $0.00685
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00342
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00137
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00068

Measured 2d ago against content hash a1b655c63e19, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

config 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 2d 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.

smith/skills/config/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.

Config

Smith supports per-project configuration via a .smith.local.yaml file in the project root. This file is user-managed, not committed to git, and provides project-specific settings that Smith agents and commands read at runtime.

File Location

project-root/
└── .smith.local.yaml

The file lives in the project root, not inside .claude/ or docs/.

Gitignore

This file should be added to .gitignore:

.smith.local.yaml

Remind the user to add this entry when creating the file for the first time.

Format

YAML

# Smith project configuration

# Directory where Smith writes research, plans, and reports.
# Default: docs/
output_directory: docs/

# Automatically critique and revise plans after initial generation.
# Default: false
plan_auto_critique: false

# Run git history analysis after research.
# Default: true
research_history: true

All fields are optional. An empty file or a file with only some fields is valid.

Schema

Field Type Default Description
output_directory string docs/ Base directory where Smith writes documents. Research files go to <output_directory>/research/, plans to <output_directory>/plans/, and reports to <output_directory>/reports/.
plan_auto_critique boolean false When true, the /plan command automatically runs one round of critique (Critic agent) and revision (Planner agent) after producing the initial plan.
research_history boolean true When true, the /research command runs the Historian agent after the Researcher to append git history analysis. Set to false to skip the history phase.

The schema is intentionally open. Users may add additional keys as needed; agents should read what they recognize and ignore the rest.

Fallback Behavior

If .smith.local.yaml does not exist, or a field is absent, use the defaults listed in the schema. Configuration is always optional; its absence must never block execution.

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 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. 2d ago First seen · 84 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A a1b655c63e19

Subscribe to this mod's changes

config is a skill published in the GitHub repository brettbuddin/claude-plugins (3 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 685 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 2026-08-31.