implement

A workflow for carrying out a change requested by a project maintainer, such as an enhancement or a directed fix. It includes focused checks and an accurate report of what was completed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to implement a maintainer’s specification, choose a suitable existing test, run targeted verification, publish the candidate change, and clearly report any remaining test gaps.
Why use it?
It prevents requested enhancements from being treated like bug investigations and keeps testing focused on the behavior that changed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/emdash-cms/emdash/implement
Any agent
npx skills add emdash-cms/emdash --skill implement
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/emdash-cms/emdash

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,167 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 $0.00035 $0.01167
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00583
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00233
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00117

Measured yesterday against content hash 6c8a0214781c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

implement 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 yesterday.

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.

infra/emdash-bot/.flue/skills/implement/SKILL.md · 57 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 57 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Implement

A maintainer explicitly asked you to build the issue's requested change. Treat the issue body and directive as the specification. This lane is for enhancements and directed changes; do not invent a bug verdict or describe an enhancement as reproduced.

Delivery priorities

The working candidate is the deliverable; tests are evidence for it. TDD controls ordering for a confirmed bug, not how much of the run test construction may consume. Enhancements do not need a failing test first.

  • Use an existing test file, helper, and configuration at the lowest layer that proves the requested behavior. One focused regression case is normally enough.
  • Do not add a test configuration, package script, custom harness, or dependency inspection solely to make the change testable. Do not inspect node_modules unless the requested behavior depends on third-party internals.
  • If one test approach has not converged after three attempts or about ten minutes, stop using it. Choose a lower-level seam or implement the scoped change and report the test gap. For a confirmed bug, do not claim completion without a meaningful regression test; publish the partial candidate and state what is missing.
  • Protect the final fifteen minutes for metadata, one verification pass, publish_candidate, and reporting. Stop optional investigation before that window.
  • Update the public plan after the first source edit and when moving from editing to verification or publication. Do not leave it on an obsolete test step.

Procedure

  1. Read AGENTS.md and the relevant implementation, tests, and contributor guidance before editing.
  2. The harness installs dependencies and builds the base workspace before this turn. Do not run pnpm install, the root pnpm build, or a pre-edit lint baseline.
  3. Choose the smallest final verification set before editing: the focused behavior test, affected package tests and typechecks, final lint, and a check-only formatter. Do not plan a monorepo-wide test suite when focused or package-level checks cover the changed behavior.
  4. Resolve ambiguity from existing APIs, sibling code, and backwards-compatible behavior. If a missing decision would materially change the public contract, stop and report it instead of guessing.
  5. Edit through edit_file and write_file. Keep the change scoped to the request. Do not modify .github/workflows or generated Lingui catalogs.
  6. Add the smallest behavior-level test that uses existing infrastructure. For a directed bug fix, follow the repository's failing-test-first rule within the test-construction limit above.
  7. Finish every candidate edit before final verification. Apply formatting and add the changeset now, when a published package changed. Follow .changeset/README.md: write public CHANGELOG documentation with detail proportional to the impact, not a diff summary.
  8. Run the planned final checks with exec, once each on the final candidate. Fix failures caused by the change and rerun the affected check after editing. Do not hide failures with shell fallbacks. If a relevant failure remains, preserve the candidate and report it accurately instead of withholding the work from CI.
  9. Call publish_candidate after the final checks, including when a check remains failing. The trusted tool commits and pushes only to bot/fix-<issue> through the issue-scoped Git proxy; never run git commit, git push, or create a PR yourself.
  10. Call report_implementation exactly once. Set implemented: true only after publication succeeds. Summarize the observable change and verification, not a bug verdict.

Read the full file on GitHub · 57 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. yesterday First seen · 57 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 6c8a0214781c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

implement is a skill published in the GitHub repository emdash-cms/emdash (12,111 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,167 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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