bb-plugins

bb-plugins is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from davidondrej/skills. It costs 62 tokens per session (831 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for building, installing, and debugging bb plugins. A bb plugin is a TypeScript package that adds features such as tools, panels, themes, providers, or command-line commands to bb.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or change a bb plugin, install one locally, reload it during development, or inspect its types and manifest.
Why use it?
It provides the required structure and safety checks for extensions that run with full access inside bb.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

About the project

David Ondrej's Agent Skills is a repository of reusable instruction packages for AI coding, research, and workflow agents. Each skill describes a focused process for tasks such as code improvement, research, documentation, transcript work, and agent coordination. The catalogue entries are the repository's own skills and related agent configuration.

davidondrej/skills · 3,828 stars · on GitHub

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/davidondrej/skills/bb-plugins
Any agent
npx skills add davidondrej/skills --skill bb-plugins
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davidondrej/skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 bb-plugins

README.md
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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 831 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 $0.00062 $0.00831
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00415
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00166
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00083

Measured 5d ago against content hash 70eff09b88ff, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bb-plugins 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 5d 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/agent-orchestration/bb-plugins/SKILL.md · 78 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 78 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

bb plugins

bb plugins are TypeScript packages that run inside bb. They are how bb extends itself.

Many first-party features are plugins: GitHub, Docs, Memory, Tasks, Connect, Automations, Secrets, Keep Awake, and the coding-agent providers.

Trust

Plugins are full-trust. Server code runs in-process. App UI is same-origin page code, not a sandbox. Host workers run as Node on enrolled machines.

Review source before installing third-party plugins. Keep credentials in secret: true settings.

This skill vs others

  • Use this skill to create, install, or change a plugin.
  • Use bb-cli to operate bb (threads, projects, environments).
  • For exact API signatures, read the bb-plugin-authoring skill if it is available, then run bb guide plugins. In the plugin directory, run bb plugin types before trusting local SDK types. Do not guess from minified dist/ files.

Scaffold

bb plugin new hello            # add --app for a React UI
cd bb-plugin-hello
bb plugin install . --yes
bb plugin dev                  # rebuild + reload on save

The manifest is the bb object in package.json. Required: bb.name, bb.description, bb.branding.icon, bb.server. Optional: bb.app, bb.host, bb.skills, bb.themes.

Plugin id is the last package-name segment with a bb-plugin- prefix stripped. bb-plugin-hello and @acme/bb-plugin-hello both become hello.

Put runtime imports in dependencies. Leave types and tooling in devDependencies. Git installs run npm install --omit=dev.

What a plugin can add

A default-export factory in server.ts receives BbPluginApi and registers surfaces:

  • settings, kv + SQLite storage, HTTP, RPC, realtime
  • background services and cron
  • one top-level bb <name> … command
  • agent tools, skills/ folders, extra instructions
  • mention providers
  • optional host workers and experimental agent providers

app.tsx default-exports definePluginApp and can add pages, thread-panel actions, composer controls, file openers, and a replacement sidebar.

Read the full file on GitHub · 78 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. 5d ago First seen · 78 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 70eff09b88ff

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bb-plugins is a skill published in the GitHub repository davidondrej/skills (3,828 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 831 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 2026-08-30.

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