symfony:effective-context

symfony:effective-context is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dev-toolings/superpowers-symfony. It costs 22 tokens per session (222 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of symfony:brainstorming, MIT.

A Symfony development guide for giving an AI assistant the relevant files, project patterns, and constraints before it changes code. It focuses on establishing the current boundaries and dependencies first.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when preparing medium or complex Symfony work, identifying coupling points, choosing a small architectural change, and recording validation results and remaining risks.
Why use it?
It reduces misunderstandings caused by missing project context and helps keep changes consistent with existing conventions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the superpowers-symfony plugin — 37 skills, 13 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook shipped together

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/dev-toolings/superpowers-symfony/effective-context
Any agent
npx skills add dev-toolings/superpowers-symfony --skill effective-context
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dev-toolings/superpowers-symfony

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install superpowers-symfony, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 37 skills, 13 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 222 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 88% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00022 $0.00222
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00111
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00044
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00022

Measured 4d ago against content hash 0852bc3072a2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

symfony:effective-context 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.

Origin

This is a copy

88% identical to symfony:brainstorming — 7 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/effective-context/SKILL.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

Effective Context (Symfony)

Use when

  • Refining architecture/workflows/context handling in Symfony projects.
  • Planning and executing medium/complex changes safely.

Default workflow

  1. Establish current boundaries, constraints, and coupling points.
  2. Propose smallest coherent architectural adjustment.
  3. Execute in checkpoints with validation at each stage.
  4. Summarize tradeoffs and follow-up backlog.

Guardrails

  • Use existing project patterns by default.
  • Avoid broad refactors without explicit need.
  • Keep decision log clear and auditable.

Progressive disclosure

  • Use this file for execution posture and risk controls.
  • Open references when deep implementation details are needed.

Output contract

  • Architecture/workflow changes.
  • Checkpoint validation outcomes.
  • Residual risks and next steps.

References

  • reference.md
  • docs/complexity-tiers.md
Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 4d ago First seen · 40 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 0852bc3072a2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

symfony:effective-context is a skill published in the GitHub repository dev-toolings/superpowers-symfony (208 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 222 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to symfony:brainstorming, differing in 7 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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