poly-overview

poly-overview is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Goldziher/poly. It costs 33 tokens per session (983 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An overview of poly, a single Rust program that checks and formats repositories written in multiple languages. It describes its built-in language tools, general syntax-based support, optional system tools, quality checks, and rule packs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to decide whether poly fits a repository, understand its language coverage, and choose it for local or continuous-integration code checks.
Why use it?
It explains what poly can cover and when its results may be less precise for a language without a dedicated tool.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the poly plugin — 5 skills, 2 commands, 2 agents shipped together

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/goldziher/poly/poly-overview
Any agent
npx skills add Goldziher/poly --skill poly-overview
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Goldziher/poly

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install poly, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 2 commands, 2 agents.

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 poly-overview

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/goldziher/poly/poly-overview.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/goldziher/poly/poly-overview)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/goldziher/poly/poly-overview"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/goldziher/poly/poly-overview.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 983 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 $0.00033 $0.00983
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00491
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00197
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00098

Measured 4d ago against content hash e70df895367f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

poly-overview 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 4d 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.

.ai-rulez/skills/poly-overview/SKILL.md · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

poly Overview

poly is a single pure-Rust binary that lints and formats a whole repository across languages. It wraps best-in-class tools as in-process crate backends and falls back to a tree-sitter generic tier for everything else, so it runs the same on any machine and in CI. No system tool is ever required; the one scoped exception is the native-toolchain tier below, which uses a language's canonical CLI when it happens to be installed.

Per-language coverage tiers

  • Tier 1 — native in-process backends. Highest fidelity, compiled straight into the binary and registered per language in registry.rs: ruff (Python), oxc (JS/TS/JSX/TSX/JSON/JSONC), taplo (TOML), rumdl (Markdown/MDX), sqruff (SQL), YAML, malva (CSS/SCSS/LESS) + biome (CSS/SCSS), markup_fmt (HTML/Vue/Svelte/Astro/Angular/Jinja/ Vento/Mustache/XML), mago (PHP), rubyfmt (Ruby), graphql + biome (GraphQL), nixfmt (Nix), hcl, Dockerfile, dotenv, and INI.
  • Tier 2 — tree-sitter generic tier. The catch-all for the long tail (Elixir, C/C++, C#, protobuf, and the rest of 300+ grammars). CST-driven structural reindent for brace-family grammars, whitespace normalization otherwise, and a LEAVE_UNTOUCHED list for grammars where whitespace is significant. Best-effort, pure Rust, grammars loaded on demand — never gofmt/rustfmt parity, by design.
  • Native-toolchain tier (scoped exception). A language's canonical first-party CLI run per file over stdin/stdout when installed: rustfmt, gofmt and shellcheck are on by default when found on PATH; zig fmt, shfmt, google-java-format, ktfmt, styler (R), swift-format, dart format, and gleam format are opt-in via [fmt.<lang>.<tool>] enabled = true / [lint.<lang>.<tool>] enabled = true. When the tool is absent, formatting falls through to tier 2 with an info-level notice, so the zero-dependency guarantee always holds.

Cross-cutting engines (every language)

Four engines are appended to every language regardless of tier:

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 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. 4d ago First seen · 59 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A e70df895367f

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poly-overview is a skill published in the GitHub repository Goldziher/poly (10 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 983 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.