clean-code

clean-code is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills. It costs 18 tokens per session (1,973 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of guidelines for writing code that is easy for people to read, change, and test.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or improving functions, classes, files, and tests, or when judging code quality.
Why use it?
It reduces confusion caused by vague names, oversized functions, tangled dependencies, and hard-to-test designs.

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/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills/clean-code
Any agent
npx skills add cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills --skill clean-code
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,973 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 $0.00018 $0.01973
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00986
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00395
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00197

Measured 4d ago against content hash 7490cd0ad070, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clean-code 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.

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.

categories/development/clean-code/SKILL.md · 195 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 195 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Clean Code

Write code that humans can read, understand, and change with confidence.

Core Principles

1. Mean What You Say — Say What You Mean

Code is communication. Every name, structure, and abstraction should reveal intent. If you need a comment to explain what the code does, the code is failing at communication.

2. Small Things, Done Well

Small functions, small classes, small files. Each unit of code should have one clear responsibility and do it well. Composability beats complexity.

3. The Boy Scout Rule

Leave the code cleaner than you found it. Every commit should improve the codebase incrementally — even if it's just renaming one variable or extracting one function.

4. Testability == Design Quality

If code is hard to test, it has a design problem. Testable code is modular, decoupled, and honest about its dependencies.


Clean Code Scoring Rubric

Use this rubric to evaluate code quality on a scale of 1-5 for each dimension:

Dimension 1 (Poor) 3 (Adequate) 5 (Excellent)
Naming Single-letter vars, ambiguous abbreviations Descriptive but occasionally redundant Reveals intent, consistent, searchable
Function Size Monolithic 500+ line functions 50-100 line functions with mixed concerns <20 lines, one clear level of abstraction
Comments Outdated or redundant comments Comments explain what not why Minimal comments, code is self-documenting
Error Handling Silent catches, magic error codes Basic try/catch, some error types Rich error types, graceful degradation
Testing No tests or brittle tests Tests exist but tightly coupled to implementation Tests specify behavior, not implementation
Duplication Copy-paste everywhere Some reuse, some DRY violations DRY with well-abstracted patterns

Target: 4+ in every dimension for production-grade code.


Actionable Guidance

Naming

Read the full file on GitHub · 195 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 · 195 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 7490cd0ad070

Subscribe to this mod's changes

clean-code is a skill published in the GitHub repository cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills (471 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 1,973 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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