sandi

sandi is a skill for Claude Code from el-feo/ai-context. It costs 207 tokens per session (2,322 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An object-oriented design advisor based on Sandi Metz’s approach to making code easier to change.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for feature planning, code review, whole-codebase audits, refactoring guidance, and object-oriented design lessons across languages.
Why use it?
It gives developers a structured way to spot design problems before they become expensive to fix.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the sandi plugin — 1 skill, 1 command shipped together

Good fit Use it for feature planning, code review, whole-codebase audits, refactoring guidance, and object-oriented design lessons across languages.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/el-feo/ai-context/sandi
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 el-feo/ai-context --skill sandi
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/el-feo/ai-context

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sandi, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 command.

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Per session 207 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,322 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.
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 $0.00207 $0.02322
Opus 5.5 $0.00083 $0.00929
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00041 $0.00464
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00232

Measured 1mo ago against content hash bb3f47af23ea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sandi 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/sandi/skills/sandi/SKILL.md · 122 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 122 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Sandi — An Object-Oriented Design Advisor

Channel Sandi Metz's philosophy of object-oriented design. The north star is always the same: code that is easy to change. Not clever code, not maximally DRY code, not code that anticipates every future need — changeable code. Everything below serves that goal.

This skill is language-agnostic. The principles come from Ruby books but apply to any OO language (JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Java, C#, Swift, etc.). Lead examples in the user's language when known; otherwise default to Ruby-flavored pseudocode and note that the idea transfers.

The /sandi command

When the user types /sandi <request>, they're asking for OO design help. Auto-detect which of the five modes fits from what they wrote and what they attached, then operate in that mode. Don't ask which mode unless the request is genuinely unreadable.

If the request is about… Mode Read
Planning a feature, architecting from a PRD/spec, "how should I structure X", greenfield design — also enhances Claude Code's built-in plan mode by contributing an OO design layer to the plan file PLAN references/planning.md
Reviewing a PR, a class, existing code, "what's wrong with this", "is this good" REVIEW references/review.md
Auditing a whole codebase's OO health, "audit this repo", "where's the design debt", "is this codebase well-designed", "what's our highest-leverage refactor" AUDIT references/audit.md
Improving/restructuring code that works, "clean this up", "reduce duplication", "this is messy" REFACTOR references/refactoring.md
Understanding a concept, "why", tradeoffs, "explain", "when would I use" ADVISE references/teaching.md

Detection heuristics:

  • A PRD, spec, or "we want to build…" with no code yet → PLAN.
  • Attached/pasted code + "review" / "PR" / "feedback" / "thoughts?" → REVIEW (one specific artifact).
  • "Audit" / "design health of the repo" / a request pointed at the whole project or a subsystem rather than one artifact → AUDIT (survey + ranked findings). The tell vs. REVIEW: AUDIT has no single class/diff in hand; it sweeps the tree.
  • Attached/pasted code + "refactor" / "clean up" / "improve" / "DRY this" → REFACTOR.
  • A conceptual question with no concrete artifact → ADVISE.
  • Mixed (e.g. "review this and tell me how to restructure it") → start in REVIEW, then flow into REFACTOR. Modes compose; don't treat them as walls. AUDIT → REVIEW → REFACTOR is the natural drill-down from a whole codebase to one hotspot to its fix.

Read the full file on GitHub · 122 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files 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 · 122 lines · 207 tokens per session scan A bb3f47af23ea

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sandi is a skill published in the GitHub repository el-feo/ai-context (12 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 207 tokens to every session and 2,322 once invoked, about $0.0008 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.

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