c4-modeling

c4-modeling is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fabiandistler/agents. It costs 55 tokens per session (1,959 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A way to describe a software system at several levels using diagrams: the surrounding context, major containers, internal components, and how the system is deployed. C4 is a diagramming model, and the diagrams are rendered as Mermaid.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create context, container, component, landscape, dynamic, and deployment diagrams from one list of system elements and relationships.
Why use it?
It gives teams a shared picture of a system without forcing every reader to inspect the source code.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it to create context, container, component, landscape, dynamic, and deployment diagrams from one list of system elements and relationships.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fabiandistler/agents/c4-modeling
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 fabiandistler/agents --skill c4-modeling
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fabiandistler/agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,959 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 unknown 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 $0.00055 $0.01959
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00784
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00392
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00196

Measured 4d ago against content hash 4fb3a105412f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

c4-modeling 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 4d 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.

skills/c4-modeling/SKILL.md · 166 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

5 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.

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  8. 2mo ago First seen · 177 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A b05dfa309894

Subscribe to this mod's changes

c4-modeling is a skill published in the GitHub repository fabiandistler/agents (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,959 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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