shell-script-development

shell-script-development is a skill for Claude Code from dwmkerr/claude-toolkit. It costs 32 tokens per session (348 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of conventions for creating Bash shell scripts, including error handling, variable naming, and status messages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Writing or modifying Bash scripts with a standard structure, safe error handling, colored status output, and executable-file guidance.
Why use it?
It helps keep shell scripts consistent and makes failures and progress easier to understand.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the toolkit plugin — 15 skills, 3 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Writing or modifying Bash scripts with a standard structure, safe error handling, colored status output, and executable-file guidance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dwmkerr/claude-toolkit/shell-script-development
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.

Any agent
npx skills add dwmkerr/claude-toolkit --skill shell-script-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dwmkerr/claude-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 3 commands, 1 agent.

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README.md
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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 348 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 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 $0.00032 $0.00348
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00139
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00070
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00035

Measured 1mo ago against content hash fe484b57b610, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shell-script-development 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 1mo 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.

plugins/toolkit/skills/shell-script-development/SKILL.md · 54 lines

What it actually says

Shell Script Development

Create shell scripts following consistent conventions.

Template

#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -e -o pipefail

# Colors
green='\033[0;32m'
red='\033[0;31m'
yellow='\033[1;33m'
blue='\033[0;34m'
nc='\033[0m'

# Script logic here

echo -e "${green}✔${nc} completed successfully"

Conventions

Element Convention
Shebang #!/usr/bin/env bash
Safety set -e -o pipefail
Local variables Lowercase (model, dir, count)
Environment variables Uppercase (PATH, HOME, USER)
Color variables Lowercase (green, red, nc)
Status words Lowercase (error, warning, note)

Status Output Patterns

echo -e "${green}✔${nc} task completed"           # success
echo -e "${red}error${nc}: something failed"      # error
echo -e "${yellow}warning${nc}: something to note" # warning
echo -e "${blue}info${nc}: informational message"  # info

Important

After creating or modifying shell scripts, inform the user:

Make executable. Run chmod +x script.sh before use.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 54 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A fe484b57b610

Subscribe to this mod's changes

shell-script-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository dwmkerr/claude-toolkit (23 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 348 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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