coding-standards

A set of general coding standards and design patterns for TypeScript, JavaScript, React, and Node.js projects. It covers naming, types, error handling, asynchronous code, React components and hooks, APIs, testing, and common code smells.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or reviewing TypeScript or JavaScript, building React interfaces, designing REST APIs, or deciding how to structure and test Node.js code.
Why use it?
It helps keep code consistent and easier to maintain across projects. It also provides guidance for avoiding common mistakes in state updates, API design, database queries, and error handling.

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/cloudnative-co/claude-code-starter-kit/coding-standards
Any agent
npx skills add cloudnative-co/claude-code-starter-kit --skill coding-standards
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cloudnative-co/claude-code-starter-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 420 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 $0.00028 $0.00420
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00210
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00084
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00042

Measured 2d ago against content hash 0f8fedbea6b4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

coding-standards 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.

skills/coding-standards/SKILL.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

Coding Standards & Best Practices

Universal coding standards applicable across all projects. Detailed patterns and examples are in the references/ directory.

Quick Decision Guide

What you need Reference file
Naming, immutability, types, error handling, async references/typescript-patterns.md
Components, hooks, state, memoization, lazy loading references/react-patterns.md
REST API design, file structure, testing, code smells references/api-testing-patterns.md

Categories

TypeScript/JavaScript Patterns

Variable and function naming conventions, immutability (critical), comprehensive error handling, async/await best practices, type safety, comments/documentation style, and database query performance.

See: references/typescript-patterns.md

React Patterns

Functional component structure with typed props, custom hooks (useDebounce pattern), proper state updates with functional setters, conditional rendering without ternary chains, useMemo/useCallback memoization, and lazy loading with Suspense.

See: references/react-patterns.md

API Design, Testing & Code Smells

REST conventions, consistent ApiResponse format, Zod input validation, project file organization and naming, AAA test pattern, descriptive test naming, and anti-pattern detection (long functions, deep nesting, magic numbers).

See: references/api-testing-patterns.md

Core Principles

  1. Readability First -- self-documenting code over comments
  2. KISS -- simplest solution that works
  3. DRY -- extract and reuse common logic
  4. YAGNI -- build only what is needed now
  5. Immutability -- never mutate; always spread
Files

What ships with it

3 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.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 43 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 0f8fedbea6b4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

coding-standards is a skill published in the GitHub repository cloudnative-co/claude-code-starter-kit (147 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 420 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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