synthesis

synthesis is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from chipweaver/veripower. It costs 42 tokens per session (2,506 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for synthesis, the step that turns digital hardware design code into a circuit description, using Synopsys Design Compiler. It also reviews timing, area, and power reports.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to synthesize hardware, analyze reports, add timing exceptions, and rerun synthesis after RTL code changes.
Why use it?
It carries timing rules into the synthesis run and provides a documented way to check whether the resulting circuit meets them.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the veripower plugin — 12 skills, 3 hooks shipped together

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/chipweaver/veripower/synthesis
Any agent
npx skills add chipweaver/veripower --skill synthesis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chipweaver/veripower

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install veripower, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 3 hooks.

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 synthesis

README.md
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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,506 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 $0.00042 $0.02506
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.01253
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00501
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00251

Measured 4d ago against content hash ef941c3ecd8b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

synthesis 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 5 executable files (scripts/synthesis/__init__.py, scripts/synthesis/__main__.py, scripts/synthesis/bootstrap.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.

skills/synthesis/SKILL.md · 169 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 169 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Synthesis

Your sole responsibility: carry this module's declared timing exceptions into the SDC, converge Design Compiler against it, and close the run through the synthesis CLI.

Iron Rule

  • Write only under {workdir}. Every injected input location is read-only, as is every other stage's output.
  • Scripts are black boxes, never Read their source. Invoke them per this skill's documented command lines (flags via --help); on a non-zero exit act on the documented failure protocol (stderr, stdout verdict), not the source. Sole exception: debugging a suspected bug in a script itself.

What you read, and what you edit

<skill> is this skill's own base directory, named on the first line of this file.

{workdir}/dispatch.json carries the inputs table below, so <key> denotes a location and you read <key>/<subpath>. It also carries scope and caused_by when the kernel knows what changed since your last run: those narrow which inherited exceptions you re-check and which violations you triage, never which declarations you render — step 2 carries all of them every round, because the SDC dc_shell reads is rebuilt every round.

Path Use
<annotations>/constraint-annotations.json The sdc block per child: every timing exception and generated clock this RTL implies, in real module names. Its authors declared it and this stage is its only consumer. Schema: skills/rtl-design/references/constraint-annotations.schema.json.
<rtl>/rtl-files.json Per-child file layout, which bootstrap turns into scripts/rtl_load.tcl. The RTL itself is under <rtl> too, and step 2 reads it for divider ratios. Schema: skills/rtl-design/references/rtl-files.schema.json.
<sdc>/constraints/<TOP>.sdc Clocks and IO delays from specification. bootstrap reads it every round, so a correction here arrives on its own; it is not yours to restate or override.
<ppa>/ppa.json The area and slack targets this run is judged against. finalize reads them itself; you read them when deciding which side of a PPA miss is wrong. Schema: skills/specification/references/ppa.schema.json.

Read the full file on GitHub · 169 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. 4d ago First seen · 169 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A ef941c3ecd8b

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synthesis is a skill published in the GitHub repository chipweaver/veripower (4 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 2,506 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.