py-boy-scout

py-boy-scout is a skill for Claude Code from CasLubbers/code-design-skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (919 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A workflow for working on Python code that also checks for nearby cleanup opportunities. It follows the Boy Scout Rule: leave code cleaner than you found it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it whenever you change, debug, or review Python, including requests to improve obvious nearby issues.
Why use it?
It helps prevent small problems and unnecessary mess from remaining in code during edits, fixes, and debugging.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the code-design-skills plugin — 28 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it whenever you change, debug, or review Python, including requests to improve obvious nearby issues.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/caslubbers/code-design-skills/py-boy-scout
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 CasLubbers/code-design-skills --skill py-boy-scout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CasLubbers/code-design-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install code-design-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 919 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 $0.00000 $0.00919
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00460
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00184
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00092

Measured 10d ago against content hash cb6d5bf67adc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

py-boy-scout 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.

skills/py-boy-scout/SKILL.md · 120 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

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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 · 120 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A cb6d5bf67adc

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py-boy-scout is a skill published in the GitHub repository CasLubbers/code-design-skills (1 stars, last pushed 16d ago), with no licence file. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 919 tokens. 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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