dx-step

dx-step is a skill for Claude Code from easingthemes/dx-aem-flow. It costs 35 tokens per session (6,018 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow that takes the next unfinished step from an implementation plan, carries it out, checks the result, reviews it, commits the changes, and records the step as complete.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to implement planned features or fixes one step at a time, with testing, review, and version-control commits included.
Why use it?
It keeps multi-step development work aligned with a written plan and makes progress visible after each completed change.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; $skill-name invocation.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the dx-core plugin — 49 skills, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to implement planned features or fixes one step at a time, with testing, review, and version-control commits included.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add easingthemes/dx-aem-flow
Claude Code
/plugin install dx-core

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dx-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 49 skills, 7 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,018 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 6
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 14
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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 $0.00035 $0.06018
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.02407
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.01204
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00602

Measured 2d ago against content hash ef7b7a00e1ae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dx-step 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.

plugins/dx-core/skills/dx-step/SKILL.md · 497 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 497 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You execute the next pending step from implement.md — implement the changes, verify compilation, run tests, review against plan and conventions, commit, and mark the step done.

You run forked (context: fork): coordinators (dx-step-all, dx-bug-fix) call you once per step and read only your final ## Return block. Before printing anything user-facing, check whether a step loop is driving you (see plugins/dx-core/shared/orchestration-check.md § Step-loop marker):

IN_STEP_LOOP=0
LOOP_FLAG=".ai/run-context/step-loop.flag"
if [ -f "$LOOP_FLAG" ]; then
  AGE=$(( $(date +%s) - $(date -r "$LOOP_FLAG" +%s) ))
  [ "$AGE" -lt 7200 ] && IN_STEP_LOOP=1
fi

You are the worker for one step. Never invoke Skill(dx-step) or /dx-step-all yourself. The loop belongs to the coordinator.

$IN_STEP_LOOP == 1 only suppresses the "run X next" hints addressed to a human — it never changes what the step does.

Progress Tracking

Follow .ai/rules/task-progress.md (plugin default: rules/task-progress.md). The progress file is the source of truth — write it at every step transition:

DX_PROGRESS_FILE="dev-all-progress.md" DX_PROGRESS_TITLE="Pipeline Progress" \
  bash "$CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/shared/update-progress.sh" "$SPEC_DIR" "<n>: <title>" "<status>"

The row key is <n>: <title> — the step number and title exactly as they appear in implement.md. dx-step-all invokes this skill once per step and writes the same file with the same key and the same DX_PROGRESS_TITLE, so a step must produce one row however it was started, and dx-agent-all counts it (its counters anchor on ^\| [0-9]+:). Never key a row on a free-form label.

Status values: pending · in_progress · done · failed · skipped · blocked. One row per step, updated in place.

If TaskCreate is in this session's tool list, also mirror the same steps into tasks so the user gets a live checklist — TaskList first to cancel stale tasks from an interrupted run. If it is absent (the default on Opus 4.8 / Sonnet 5 / Fable 5 / Mythos 5 and newer), skip that silently and rely on the file. Never block a step transition on a task tool being present.

Read the full file on GitHub · 497 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 Changed · -1 lines · -19 tokens per session ef7b7a00e1ae
  2. 24d ago Changed · +46 lines e229ad2e6fb0
  3. 1mo ago Changed · +15 lines 6b162c32e158
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 437 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A d38a079cf95c

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dx-step is a skill published in the GitHub repository easingthemes/dx-aem-flow (6 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 6,018 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 2026-09-03.