provision-environment

A preparation guide for making a project's build, test, lint, or formatting tools available without changing the user's computer. It checks the declared environment, installed tools, and available temporary environments.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before running project verification or formatting commands. It helps select the right package manager and use an ephemeral shell or throwaway container when needed.
Why use it?
It prevents commands from failing simply because a required toolchain is missing, while avoiding permanent changes to the host machine.

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/franzos/claude-plugins/provision-environment
Any agent
npx skills add franzos/claude-plugins --skill provision-environment
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/franzos/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 774 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 $0.00077 $0.00774
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00387
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00155
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00077

Measured 2d ago against content hash 56a04c7cd98d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

provision-environment 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/engineers/skills/provision-environment/SKILL.md · 43 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 43 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Provisioning a toolchain or runtime

Before you run a build, test, lint, or format command, make sure the tool is actually available, and get there without changing the user's machine. Work through these steps in order and stop at the first that succeeds.

1. Follow declared presets

If the user has declared environment facts (typically an ## Environment block in their ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md, which you receive automatically), follow them: the container runtime to use, the package manager, how toolchains are provided, whether to format in a container, and so on. These win over anything you would infer.

2. Detect what is already there

Probe, do not assume. Check without side effects:

  • Binaries: command -v <tool> (never run a tool just to see if it errors).
  • Container runtime: a present binary is not enough, confirm the daemon: docker info >/dev/null 2>&1, else podman info >/dev/null 2>&1. podman is a drop-in for docker.
  • Language package manager: resolve from the lockfile, not from what is installed (pnpm-lock.yaml -> pnpm, package-lock.json -> npm, yarn.lock -> yarn, bun.lockb -> bun).
  • Declared project environment: prefer whatever the project ships: manifest.scm, flake.nix, a devcontainer, .tool-versions/.mise.toml, .nvmrc, rust-toolchain.toml.
  • OS: uname -s (Linux/Darwin). Assume a POSIX shell; if it is something else, say so and ask.

If the tool the task needs is already on PATH, use it and move on.

3. Provision only non-invasively

If the tool is missing, you may still proceed only by means that leave the host unchanged:

  • An ephemeral shell: nix shell ... or guix shell ... (transient, nothing installed into a profile).
  • A throwaway container run, for example formatting Rust with no local toolchain: docker run --rm -v "$PWD":/w -w /w rust:<toolchain-version> sh -c "rustup component add rustfmt && cargo fmt" (use podman if that is the available runtime).

Never modify the host to satisfy a requirement: no apt/dnf/brew/pacman/apk installs, no global rustup component add on the host, no sudo, no writing to system paths. Provisioning is allowed to be transient, never permanent.

Read the full file on GitHub · 43 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 First seen · 43 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 56a04c7cd98d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

provision-environment is a skill published in the GitHub repository franzos/claude-plugins (1 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 774 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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