rules: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/workflow-practices/SKILL.md

workflow-practices is a skill for Claude Code from eser/rules. It costs 27 tokens per session (141 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of working rules for coding tasks, including how to inspect a codebase, plan changes, protect existing work, and handle Git commits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning or carrying out software changes, especially in an existing project with uncommitted user work.
Why use it?
It reduces accidental overwrites, incomplete implementations, and unwanted commits while keeping development work organised.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is eser/rules's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on rules itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything rules configures →

View source ↗ eser/rules
Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to eser/rules. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eser/rules/main/.claude/skills/workflow-practices/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/eser/rules

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 141 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 $0.00027 $0.00141
Opus 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00056
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00028
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00014

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 77de19063936, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

workflow-practices 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 2mo 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.

.claude/skills/workflow-practices/SKILL.md · 25 lines

What it actually says

workflow-practices

Quick Start

  1. Read codebase -> Create todo list -> Check plan -> Execute
  2. NEVER revert user changes or overwrite intentional code
  3. Do NOT create git commits unless explicitly requested
  4. Respect project's tooling decisions

Key Principles

  • Work WITH user changes, not against them
  • Fully implement all functionality (no placeholders)
  • Be concise, minimize prose
  • If uncertain, say so

References

See rules.md for complete conventions.

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. 2mo ago First seen · 25 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 77de19063936

Subscribe to this mod's changes

workflow-practices is a skill published in the GitHub repository eser/rules (53 stars, last pushed 10mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 141 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.