java-conventions

java-conventions is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Goldziher/ai-rulez. It costs 50 tokens per session (353 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for modern Java development, covering code structure, builds, testing, performance checks, exceptions, and dependency security.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or reviewing Java 17 or newer applications and libraries, including Maven or Gradle builds, JUnit tests, records, sealed classes, and benchmarks.
Why use it?
It helps prevent resource leaks, overly broad error handling, mutable shared state, inconsistent builds, and vulnerable dependencies.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when creating or reviewing Java 17 or newer applications and libraries, including Maven or Gradle builds, JUnit tests, records, sealed classes, and benchmarks.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/goldziher/ai-rulez/java-conventions
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 Goldziher/ai-rulez --skill java-conventions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Goldziher/ai-rulez

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.

agentmods badge for java-conventions

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/goldziher/ai-rulez/java-conventions/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/goldziher/ai-rulez/java-conventions)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/goldziher/ai-rulez/java-conventions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/goldziher/ai-rulez/java-conventions/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for java-conventions

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/goldziher/ai-rulez/java-conventions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/goldziher/ai-rulez/java-conventions.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 353 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00050 $0.00353
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00141
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00071
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00035

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 7ae8a05a20cf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

java-conventions 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.

internal/builtins/languages/java/skills/java-conventions/SKILL.md · 18 lines

What it actually says

  • Java 17+ LTS, records for immutable data, sealed classes for restricted hierarchies, pattern matching.
  • A consistent style guide and auto-formatter (e.g., Google Java Style + google-java-format). Static analysis (e.g., Error Prone + SpotBugs).
  • Build: Maven or Gradle with wrapper scripts (mvnw/gradlew). Commit wrapper files.
  • Testing: JUnit 5 with @ParameterizedTest, an assertion library (e.g., AssertJ), a coverage tool (e.g., JaCoCo) at 80%+.
  • Benchmarking: JMH for microbenchmarks — never use System.nanoTime() loops.
  • Error handling: specific exceptions only, never catch (Exception), use try-with-resources for AutoCloseable.
  • var for obvious types, Optional<T> for returns (never params/fields), final fields by default.
  • Prefer constructor injection over field injection for DI. Immutable collections: List.of(), Map.of().
  • Streams for collection transforms, instanceof pattern matching, switch expressions.
  • Security: OWASP dependency-check Maven/Gradle plugin for CVE scanning.
  • Dependencies: commit lock files, use BOM for version alignment, avoid SNAPSHOT in releases.
  • Anti-patterns: public fields, mutable static state, raw types, checked exceptions in lambdas.
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 · 18 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 7ae8a05a20cf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

java-conventions is a skill published in the GitHub repository Goldziher/ai-rulez (163 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 353 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 2026-08-30.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

printing-press

Set up a new integration, connector, or CLI binding for any API. Wrap or generate a ship-ready Go CLI from an OpenAPI, HAR, or Postman spec via the lean research -> generate -> build -> shipcheck loop. Use when the user says build a CLI, wrap this API, set up a new integration, add a connector, integrate with a…

mvanhorn/cli-printing-press · 86 tokens

go

Use when writing, reviewing, testing, or shipping Go code and HTTP services: idioms, %w error wrapping, goroutine/context/errgroup concurrency, net/http 1.22 routing, log/slog, project layout, table-driven tests, Go hardening. NOT language-agnostic threat modeling (that is secure-coding), NOT Dockerfile/CI shipping…

ericrisco/rsc-harness · 86 tokens

go-127

What changed in Go 1.27 (released August 2026) and how it changes the way Go is written in pi-go. Use this skill when writing or reviewing Go that could use a 1.27 feature, when bumping the go directive in go.mod, when a build or test behaves differently after a toolchain upgrade, or when code-guidelines-go points…

dimetron/pi-go · 177 tokens

bubbletea-testing

Use this skill whenever writing tests for Bubble Tea (charmbracelet/bubbletea) TUI applications in Go. Triggers include any mention of testing Bubble Tea models, teatest, golden file testing for TUIs, testing tea.Cmd or tea.Msg, snapshot testing terminal output, or writing tests for any Go CLI/TUI that uses the Elm…

dimetron/pi-go · 139 tokens

pi-loop-forensics

Diagnose pi-go agent loops and degenerate turns — "agent loop aborted", runaway thinking with no tool calls, repeated phrases. Discriminates genuine model repetition collapse from a race, a tool-parse failure, or a too-low guard, and A/B replays a seed session across providers.

dimetron/pi-go · 65 tokens

nightly-session-watch

Nightly sweep of the last 24h of pi-go sessions — anomalous runs, loop aborts, tool error rates, token waste, real prompt-token spend, and whether the observation and palace pipelines are still recording. Triages each finding to the specialist skill that diagnoses it. Use for an unattended daily health check, or on…

dimetron/pi-go · 78 tokens