dart: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/dart-new-task/SKILL.md

dart-new-task is a skill for Claude Code from dartsim/dart. It costs 26 tokens per session (1,077 once invoked), scanned A, original, BSD-2-Clause.

A DART workflow for starting a feature, bug fix, refactor, documentation, build, or test task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to begin and scope development work, including larger tasks that need written specifications and verification steps.
Why use it?
It turns a broad request into a defined task and identifies when planning, project documentation, or extra acceptance checks are needed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; positional $N argument; mentions Claude Code.

This is dartsim/dart's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on dart itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything dart configures →

About the project

DART is an open-source C++23 physics engine that simulates the movement and interactions of articulated rigid-body systems for robotics, animation, and machine learning. Researchers and developers use it for kinematics, dynamics, collision handling, constraints, and loading robot models, with C++ and Python interfaces. The catalogue add-ons support workflows built around this engine.

dartsim/dart · 1,202 stars · on GitHub · dart.readthedocs.io

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to dartsim/dart. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dartsim/dart/main/.agents/skills/dart-new-task/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dartsim/dart

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,077 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00026 $0.01077
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00539
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00215
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00108

Measured today against content hash e09649994d49, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dart-new-task 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 today.

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.

.agents/skills/dart-new-task/SKILL.md · 98 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

dart-new-task

Use this skill in Codex to run the DART dart-new-task workflow. The editable workflow source lives in .claude/commands/; this file is its generated adapter in the shared .agents/skills/ catalog.

Invocation

  • Claude Code: /dart-new-task <arguments>
  • Codex: $dart-new-task <arguments>

Treat the text after the skill name as $ARGUMENTS. When the workflow references $1, $2, etc., map those to the positional values supplied by the user.

Command Body

Start a new task in DART: $ARGUMENTS

Required Reading

Read these files first: @AGENTS.md @docs/ai/principles.md @docs/README.md

Then load owners when the task needs them:

  • Multi-phase/session work: docs/dev_tasks/README.md before creating or resuming the project home.
  • Branching or contribution: docs/onboarding/contributing.md before setup.
  • C++/Python/build changes: docs/onboarding/building.md and docs/onboarding/code-style.md before implementation.
  • Docs edits: docs/AGENTS.md before editing.
  • Acceptance and testing: the task's gate set in docs/ai/verification.md before implementation; load detailed test guidance for the affected surface.

Workflow

  1. Understand the task - Parse: goal, constraints, type (feature|bugfix|refactor|docs)
  2. Assess scope - Multi-phase or multi-session? Create docs/dev_tasks/<task>/ (see docs/dev_tasks/README.md for criteria). Team-scale work (multiple parallel lanes needing orchestrated worker agents) switches to dart-ultrawork instead. For multi-session, design-heavy, public API, solver/paper, release, or cross-module work, fill the dev-task specification intake before editing: value, scope, assumptions, traceability, non-goals, acceptance evidence, gates, and open decisions. If consequential ambiguity would change public API, release compatibility, numerical correctness, benchmark claims, or roadmap scope, record an owner-local Decision needed block instead of silently choosing.
  3. Setup - Choose the target branch before creating a topic branch:
    • features/docs/non-bugfix refactors: branch from origin/main
    • bug fixes that apply to the current release line: branch from the active DART 6 LTS origin/release-6.* branch first, then cherry-pick or reapply to main
  4. Implement - Keep commits focused, follow code style
  5. Task lifecycle - For an intermediate commit or PR, preserve and update the active task folder. In the completing change, follow docs/dev_tasks/README.md: complete feasible work, promote durable artifacts, and remove the folder before final validation and commit. Preserve the owner's approval requirement for retiring unfinished work.
  6. Verify - Run pixi run lint before committing, then the gate set for this task type from docs/ai/verification.md. If the claim depends on 3D structure or behavior, route through dart-verify-sim: text oracle first, then assessed claim-tied visual evidence, or record why it is not applicable.
  7. PR - After explicit maintainer/user approval, git push -u origin HEAD then gh pr create --draft --base <target-branch> --milestone "<milestone>" (DART 7.0 for main, branch-matching DART 6.x release milestone for the active DART 6 LTS branch); follow .github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 98 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. today Changed · -1 lines e09649994d49
  2. 2d ago Changed · +5 lines 402ce339efab
  3. 4d ago Changed · -14 lines c700d81c19b1
  4. 6d ago First seen · 108 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 7a7a0c4ec4d3

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dart-new-task is a skill published in the GitHub repository dartsim/dart (1,202 stars, last pushed today), licensed BSD-2-Clause. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 1,077 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 2026-09-01.

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