create-control-manifest

create-control-manifest is a skill for Claude Code from Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios. It costs 63 tokens per session (2,274 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A concise rules document for programmers, extracted from accepted architecture decisions, technical preferences, and engine reference material. It states what to do and what to avoid for each system and architectural layer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after architecture review to create or update the project's programming rules, especially when architecture decisions change.
Why use it?
Architecture decisions often explain why a choice was made, while programmers also need quick instructions for applying it. This turns those decisions into an actionable reference and includes deprecated engine APIs as forbidden patterns.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

About the project

Claude Code Game Studios is a setup that organizes Claude Code into a coordinated game-development team of specialized AI agents. It supports game projects across design, programming, art, audio, narrative, quality assurance, and production, with skills and workflows for coordinating that work.

Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios · 24,822 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/donchitos/claude-code-game-studios/create-control-manifest
Any agent
npx skills add Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios --skill create-control-manifest
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,274 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 5.1 $0.00063 $0.02274
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01137
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00455
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00227

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2dd8d29c0139, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-control-manifest 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

4 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.claude/skills/create-control-manifest/SKILL.md · 289 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 289 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create Control Manifest

The Control Manifest is a flat, actionable rules sheet for programmers. It answers "what do I do?" and "what must I never do?" — organized by architectural layer, extracted from all Accepted ADRs, technical preferences, and engine reference docs. Where ADRs explain why, the manifest tells you what.

Output: docs/architecture/control-manifest.md

When to run: After /architecture-review passes and ADRs are in Accepted status. Re-run whenever new ADRs are accepted or existing ADRs are revised.


1. Load All Inputs

ADRs

  • Glob docs/architecture/adr-*.md and read every file
  • Filter to only Accepted ADRs (Status: Accepted) — skip Proposed, Deprecated, Superseded
  • Note the ADR number and title for every rule sourced

Technical Preferences

  • Read .claude/docs/technical-preferences.md
  • Extract: naming conventions, performance budgets, approved libraries/addons, forbidden patterns

Engine Reference

  • Read docs/engine-reference/[engine]/VERSION.md for engine + version
  • Read docs/engine-reference/[engine]/deprecated-apis.md — these become forbidden API entries
  • Read docs/engine-reference/[engine]/current-best-practices.md if it exists

Report: "Loaded [N] Accepted ADRs, engine: [name + version]."


2. Extract Rules from Each ADR

For each Accepted ADR, extract:

Required Patterns (from "Implementation Guidelines" section)

  • Every "must", "should", "required to", "always" statement
  • Every specific pattern or approach mandated

Forbidden Approaches (from "Alternatives Considered" sections)

  • Every alternative that was explicitly rejected — why it was rejected becomes the rule ("never use X because Y")
  • Any anti-patterns explicitly called out

Performance Guardrails (from "Performance Implications" section)

  • Budget constraints: "max N ms per frame for this system"
  • Memory limits: "this system must not exceed N MB"

Engine API Constraints (from "Engine Compatibility" section)

  • Post-cutoff APIs that require verification
  • Verified behaviours that differ from default LLM assumptions
  • API fields or methods that behave differently in the pinned engine version

Read the full file on GitHub · 289 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 · 289 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 2dd8d29c0139

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create-control-manifest is a skill published in the GitHub repository Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios (24,822 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 2,274 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 2026-09-03.

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