mdc-llm-prompt-engineering

mdc-llm-prompt-engineering is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from GrayCodeAI/starling. It costs 29 tokens per session (68 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for keeping language-model prompt templates in dedicated files or modules under version control. Version control records changes so prompts can be reviewed and restored like code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to organize prompt templates for applications that call language models.
Why use it?
It helps teams track, review, and manage prompt changes instead of leaving them scattered through application code.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the starling plugin — 54 skills 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/graycodeai/starling/mdc-llm-prompt-engineering
Any agent
npx skills add GrayCodeAI/starling --skill mdc-llm-prompt-engineering
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GrayCodeAI/starling

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install starling, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 54 skills.

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 68 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 $0.00029 $0.00068
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00034
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00014
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00007

Measured 4d ago against content hash fd16ca171f5b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mdc-llm-prompt-engineering 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.

categories/ai-ml/mdc-llm-prompt-engineering/SKILL.md · 8 lines

What it actually says

  • LLM Prompt Engineering: Dedicate a module or files for managing Prompt templates with version control.
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 · 8 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A fd16ca171f5b

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mdc-llm-prompt-engineering is a skill published in the GitHub repository GrayCodeAI/starling (2 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 68 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 2026-08-31.

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