ai-agent-skills: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/project-references/SKILL.md

project-references is a skill for Claude Code from dboeckli/ai-agent-skills. It costs 116 tokens per session (1,570 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only guide for looking up coding conventions and working examples in your own GitHub repositories stored locally.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find relevant reference projects, locate specific files or patterns, and adopt conventions for areas such as deployment files, Kubernetes configuration, or framework setup.
Why use it?
It helps you follow patterns already used in related projects instead of guessing or searching every repository.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is dboeckli/ai-agent-skills's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on ai-agent-skills 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 ai-agent-skills configures →

Part of the ai-agent-skills plugin — 4 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to dboeckli/ai-agent-skills. 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/dboeckli/ai-agent-skills/master/.claude/skills/project-references/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dboeckli/ai-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 1 hook.

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Per session 116 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,570 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
  • Socket pass 25 Jul 2026
  • Snyk warn 25 Jul 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 $0.00116 $0.01570
Opus 5 $0.00058 $0.00785
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00314
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00157

Measured 9d ago against content hash b311dd0c1f2d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-references 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/clone-or-update.sh, scripts/sync-all.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

.claude/skills/project-references/SKILL.md · 192 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 192 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.


Project References

This skill manages a local mirror of your own GitHub repositories under ~/projects/referenzen/ and lets you look up conventions and implementation patterns without guessing or reading all repos blindly.

All operations are read-only on the reference projects themselves. Only git clone and git pull write into that directory — never edits.


Instructions

Step 1: Check whether the relevant repo is already cloned

ls ~/projects/referenzen/

If the needed repo is missing, run scripts/clone-or-update.sh owner/repo to clone it first.

Step 2: Ask the user which reference project is most relevant

Do not scan all repos blindly — that fills context. Ask: "Which of your sibling projects uses this pattern?" or list the available repos and let the user pick.

Step 3: Search targeted — file first, then grep

Use find to locate a file by name, then cat or grep to read only the relevant section. For search commands and patterns, consult references/search-patterns.md.

Step 4: Cite the source when adopting a pattern

Always state which project and file path a pattern came from before applying it:

Pattern adopted from your-servicehelm-charts/Chart.yaml line 4

Step 5: Sync only when explicitly requested

Run scripts/sync-all.sh only when the user says "sync all" or "update all references". For a single repo, prefer scripts/clone-or-update.sh.


Examples

Example 1: Looking up a Helm chart convention

User says: "How should I structure the Helm chart for this project?"

Actions:

  1. Run ls ~/projects/referenzen/ to see available repos
  2. Ask: "Which sibling project should I use as reference?" — user says your-service
  3. Run find ~/projects/referenzen/your-service -name "Chart.yaml" to locate it
  4. Read the file, note the structure (apiVersion, dependencies, version pattern)
  5. Apply the same structure; cite: "adopted from your-service/helm-charts/Chart.yaml"

Result: Helm chart consistent with sibling projects, traceable source cited.

Read the full file on GitHub · 192 lines

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. 9d ago First seen · 192 lines · 116 tokens per session scan A b311dd0c1f2d

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project-references is a skill published in the GitHub repository dboeckli/ai-agent-skills (0 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 116 tokens to every session and 1,570 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.