migrate

migrate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dsifry/metaswarm. It costs 21 tokens per session (2,577 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A safety-focused process for moving from an npm-installed metaswarm copy to the marketplace plugin.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when the project contains the older embedded metaswarm installation to preview and stage removal of its redundant files, then verify the migration.
Why use it?
It removes duplicate framework files while protecting project-specific files and keeping the staged changes reversible before they are committed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the metaswarm plugin — 14 skills, 16 commands, 19 agents, 2 hooks 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/dsifry/metaswarm/migrate
Any agent
npx skills add dsifry/metaswarm --skill migrate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dsifry/metaswarm

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install metaswarm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 16 commands, 19 agents, 2 hooks.

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 migrate

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dsifry/metaswarm/migrate.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/dsifry/metaswarm/migrate)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dsifry/metaswarm/migrate"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dsifry/metaswarm/migrate.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,577 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00021 $0.02577
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.01288
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00515
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00258

Measured 4d ago against content hash 8b4e590a873e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

migrate scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

git rm -rf .claude/plugins/metaswarm/
skills/migrate/SKILL.md · 260 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 260 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Migration Skill

Migrate a project from npm-installed metaswarm (npx metaswarm init) to the marketplace plugin. Removes redundant embedded files with a safety protocol that prevents data loss.

When to use: The SessionStart hook detects .claude/plugins/metaswarm/.claude-plugin/plugin.json (legacy embedded plugin) and recommends running this skill.


IMPORTANT: Safety & Messaging Guidelines

The user MUST understand this before any file list is shown:

Before presenting any migration preview or file list, ALWAYS lead with this framing:

What this migration does: The marketplace plugin now provides all the skills, commands, rubrics, and guides that were previously copied into your project directory. This migration simply removes those redundant copies — the originals now live in the plugin itself.

Nothing is lost: Your project-specific files (CLAUDE.md, .coverage-thresholds.json, .beads/, bin/, scripts/) are NEVER touched. Only duplicate metaswarm framework files are removed.

Fully reversible: All removals are staged with git rm (not permanently deleted). Before you commit:

  • Undo everything: git restore --staged . && git checkout -- .
  • After committing: git revert HEAD

No commit is made automatically — you review and commit when you're satisfied.

Tone: Be reassuring, not alarming. Say "cleaning up XX redundant copies" not "deleting XX files". Say "these files now live in the plugin" not "these files will be removed". Frame the migration as housekeeping, not destruction.

When showing file counts: If there are many files (e.g., 40+), explain that the large count is because the old npm installer copied the entire plugin framework into .claude/plugins/metaswarm/ — that one directory accounts for most of the count, and it's all framework code that's now served directly by the plugin.


Step 1: Pre-flight Check

  1. Confirm this skill is running from the marketplace plugin (if this skill loaded, the plugin is active)
  2. Read .metaswarm/project-profile.json -- if "distribution": "plugin" is already set, inform the user migration was already completed and exit
  3. Verify .claude/plugins/metaswarm/.claude-plugin/plugin.json exists -- if not, there is nothing to migrate; inform the user and exit

Read the full file on GitHub · 260 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. 4d ago First seen · 260 lines · 21 tokens per session scan C 8b4e590a873e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

migrate is a skill published in the GitHub repository dsifry/metaswarm (407 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 2,577 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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