crystal

crystal is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from G1Joshi/Agent-Skills. It costs 17 tokens per session (262 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A statically typed programming language with Ruby-like syntax that compiles to native code. It is used in .cr files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for performance-sensitive scripts, small services, and command-line tools. It also supports lightweight concurrency and compile-time code generation.
Why use it?
It helps Ruby developers build programs with compiled performance and lower memory use. The compiler can catch type-related mistakes before the program runs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it for performance-sensitive scripts, small services, and command-line tools. It also supports lightweight concurrency and compile-time code generation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/g1joshi/agent-skills/crystal
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 G1Joshi/Agent-Skills --skill crystal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/G1Joshi/Agent-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 262 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 $0.00017 $0.00262
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00131
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00052
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00026

Measured 9d ago against content hash 2d146ed2f7e9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

crystal 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 9d 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/languages/crystal/SKILL.md · 45 lines

What it actually says

Crystal

Crystal compiles to native code (using LLVM) but looks exactly like Ruby. v1.12 continues improving Windows support and parallelism.

When to Use

  • Performance sensitive Rubyists: Porting heavy Ruby scripts to Crystal for 50x speedup.
  • Microservices: Low memory footprint compared to JVM/Ruby.
  • CLI Tools: Fast startup and execution.

Core Concepts

Fibers

Lightweight concurrency (like Go routines). spawn { ... }.

Macros

Generate code at compile time (like Zig/Lisp).

Union Types

String | Int32. The compiler handles the branching.

Best Practices (2025)

Do:

  • Use strict types in APIs: Help the compiler with def foo(x : Int32).
  • Use shards: Dependency manager.
  • Use -Dpreview_mt: To test multithreading capabilities.

Don't:

  • Don't use eval: Crystal is compiled, there is no runtime eval.

References

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. 9d ago First seen · 45 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 2d146ed2f7e9

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crystal is a skill published in the GitHub repository G1Joshi/Agent-Skills (12 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 262 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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