elixir-development

A guide to Elixir and OTP, the tools and patterns Elixir uses to run concurrent and fault-tolerant applications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for Mix projects, Phoenix web applications, GenServers, Supervisors, pattern matching, ExUnit tests, and Ecto database work.
Why use it?
It helps avoid unfamiliar Elixir conventions when structuring projects, handling failures, or writing concurrent code.

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/dallay/agents-skills/elixir-development
Any agent
npx skills add dallay/agents-skills --skill elixir-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dallay/agents-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,073 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 $0.00054 $0.03073
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.01537
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00615
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00307

Measured 2d ago against content hash 04582b987e6c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

elixir-development 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/elixir-development/SKILL.md · 428 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 428 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Elixir Development

Production patterns for Elixir/OTP programming, covering Mix projects, GenServer, Supervisors, pattern matching, testing with ExUnit, and Phoenix basics.

When to Use This Skill

  • Starting or structuring an Elixir project
  • Building concurrent systems with OTP
  • Implementing GenServers and Supervisors
  • Writing pattern-matching-driven code
  • Testing with ExUnit
  • Working with Phoenix web framework
  • Querying databases with Ecto

Core Concepts

1. Project Layout (Mix)

myapp/
├── lib/
│   ├── myapp/
│   │   ├── application.ex     # OTP Application (supervisor tree root)
│   │   ├── accounts/
│   │   │   ├── user.ex        # Ecto schema
│   │   │   └── accounts.ex    # Context module (business logic)
│   │   ├── workers/
│   │   │   └── email_worker.ex
│   │   └── repo.ex            # Ecto Repo
│   └── myapp.ex               # Public API
├── test/
│   ├── myapp/
│   │   └── accounts_test.exs
│   ├── support/
│   │   └── fixtures.ex
│   └── test_helper.exs
├── config/
│   ├── config.exs
│   ├── dev.exs
│   ├── test.exs
│   └── runtime.exs
├── mix.exs
├── mix.lock
└── README.md

2. Key Principles

Principle Elixir Idiom
Immutability All data is immutable; transform, don't mutate
Pattern matching Destructure and branch in function heads
Pipe operator Chain transformations with `
Let it crash Supervisors restart failed processes automatically
Processes Lightweight, isolated; communicate via messages

Quick Start

# Create a new project
mix new myapp --sup   # --sup includes Application supervisor

# Create a Phoenix project
mix phx.new myapp

# Get dependencies
mix deps.get

# Run tests
mix test
mix test --cover

# Interactive shell
iex -S mix

# Format code
mix format

Patterns

Read the full file on GitHub · 428 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 · 428 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 04582b987e6c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

elixir-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository dallay/agents-skills (2 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 3,073 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.

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