ports-and-adapters

ports-and-adapters is a skill for Claude Code from gerard-labs/superpowers-api-platform. It costs 120 tokens per session (321 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Symfony architecture approach that separates business rules from the framework, database, and external systems. Known as Hexagonal Architecture or Ports and Adapters, it uses application interfaces with replaceable technical implementations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to organize domain logic, application use cases, infrastructure adapters, and separate business contexts.
Why use it?
It makes core business code less dependent on Symfony or Doctrine and helps prevent unrelated parts of the system from becoming tightly coupled.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the gerard plugin — 53 skills, 25 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to organize domain logic, application use cases, infrastructure adapters, and separate business contexts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gerard-labs/superpowers-api-platform/ports-and-adapters
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 gerard-labs/superpowers-api-platform --skill ports-and-adapters
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gerard-labs/superpowers-api-platform

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install gerard, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 53 skills, 25 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 120 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 321 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 $0.00120 $0.00321
Opus 5.5 $0.00048 $0.00128
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00064
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00032

Measured 1mo ago against content hash e46957f4ed2f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ports-and-adapters 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 1mo 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/ports-and-adapters/SKILL.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

Ports And Adapters (Symfony)

Use when

  • Refining architecture/workflows/context handling in Symfony projects.
  • Planning and executing medium/complex changes safely.

Default workflow

  1. Establish current boundaries, constraints, and coupling points.
  2. Propose smallest coherent architectural adjustment.
  3. Execute in checkpoints with validation at each stage.
  4. Summarize tradeoffs and follow-up backlog.

Guardrails

  • Use existing project patterns by default.
  • Avoid broad refactors without explicit need.
  • Keep decision log clear and auditable.

Progressive disclosure

  • Use this file for execution posture and risk controls.
  • Open references when deep implementation details are needed.

Output contract

  • Architecture/workflow changes.
  • Checkpoint validation outcomes.
  • Residual risks and next steps.

References

  • reference.md
  • docs/complexity-tiers.md
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. 1mo ago First seen · 40 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A e46957f4ed2f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ports-and-adapters is a skill published in the GitHub repository gerard-labs/superpowers-api-platform (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 120 tokens to every session and 321 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-03.

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