software-engineering-excellence

software-engineering-excellence is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from frostney/GocciaScript. It costs 62 tokens per session (1,041 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A general set of engineering practices for planning, building, debugging, reviewing, refactoring, and investigating software.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide technical work, inspect existing patterns and instructions, validate the real outcome, and keep future changes maintainable.
Why use it?
It encourages decisions based on current evidence, complete in-scope solutions, reuse of matching code, and meaningful validation.

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/frostney/gocciascript/software-engineering-excellence
Any agent
npx skills add frostney/GocciaScript --skill software-engineering-excellence
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/frostney/GocciaScript

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

agentmods badge for software-engineering-excellence

README.md
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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,041 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 $0.00062 $0.01041
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00521
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00208
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00104

Measured 3d ago against content hash 40a4675f2bea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

software-engineering-excellence 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 3d 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.

.agents/skills/software-engineering-excellence/SKILL.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Software engineering excellence

Leave the system more maintainable and the next change easier. Find simple solutions for complex problems, but no shortcuts. Lead with questions that reveal the problem's real shape before selecting implementation mechanics. A better question separates the desired outcome, hard constraints, and observed failure from the mechanism currently being discussed; its answer can change the solution rather than merely select details within it.

Working standard

  1. Ground in current reality. Read applicable instructions, source, project-defined commands, primary specifications, and durable decisions. Treat issue text, comments, tests, docs, and prior notes as leads until verified. Run the named reproduction or artifact when possible, then act.
  2. Reuse by meaning. Search for existing helpers, patterns, definitions, and vocabulary. Reuse when semantics match; do not abstract merely similar shapes.
  3. Solve the complete in-scope problem. Cover real success, failure, and state-transition paths. Fix blockers that invalidate the requested result; report unrelated findings without absorbing them into scope.
  4. Validate the real bar. Observe every claimed pass, number, behavior, and action in the current run. Reproduce defects when possible, add meaningful regression coverage, and run the repository's relevant gate. Never weaken a gate to obtain green output. When a gate fails, diagnose the failure, using the registered diagnosing-bugs skill when available. Report the diagnosis and evidence before changing code. If the failure blocks the requested result or belongs to its authorized scope, fix it and verify the fix; otherwise report it to the user without absorbing it into the current change.
  5. Make every surface earn its cost. Add only code, tests, fallbacks, abstractions, or tools with a real caller, requirement, or failure mode. Remove unused surfaces.
  6. Respect authority boundaries. Diagnosis, review, and planning authorize assessment; change requests authorize reversible in-scope implementation and relevant validation. Pause only for a material product, architecture, security, compatibility, or scope choice that evidence cannot resolve.

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 3d ago First seen · 100 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 40a4675f2bea

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software-engineering-excellence is a skill published in the GitHub repository frostney/GocciaScript (20 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 1,041 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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