boring-ui: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/boring-plugin-build/SKILL.md

boring-plugin-build is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hachej/boring-ui. It costs 71 tokens per session (2,235 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for building plugins for the boring-ui application or its playground, including deciding where the plugin belongs and how the app loads it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding panels, tabs, catalogues, tools, or other app-specific plugin surfaces.
Why use it?
It helps avoid choosing the wrong plugin type or registration path for an internal feature versus a local experiment.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is hachej/boring-ui's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on boring-ui itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything boring-ui configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to hachej/boring-ui. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hachej/boring-ui/main/.agents/skills/boring-plugin-build/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hachej/boring-ui

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,235 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 $0.00071 $0.02235
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01118
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00447
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00224

Measured 3d ago against content hash 31991375df95, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

boring-plugin-build 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 3d 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.

.agents/skills/boring-plugin-build/SKILL.md · 293 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 293 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Boring Plugin Build

Companion files in this skill bundle

Read these companion docs when needed:

  • DECISION_TREE.md — choose the plugin shape first
  • REGISTRATION_MATRIX.md — map plugin surfaces to the right load path
  • PROGRESS_DISCLOSURE.md — how to report plugin progress clearly
  • CHECKLISTS.md — shape, registration, and verification checklists
  • SNIPPETS.md — copy-paste commands for runtime plugins, app plugins, core boot, and Vercel entry wiring

The one rule

Decide plugin trust level before you write files.

There are two valid plugin shapes in this repo:

  1. runtime/generated plugin under .pi/extensions/<name>/
  2. app/internal trusted plugin package declared through package.json#boring.defaultPluginPackages

If the plugin is part of a real shipped app, default to app/internal trusted package. If the plugin is for fast local iteration or agent-authored experimentation, default to runtime/generated plugin.


Read these first

  1. packages/pi/skills/boring-plugin-authoring/SKILL.md
  2. packages/workspace/docs/PLUGIN_STRUCTURE.md
  3. packages/workspace/docs/PLUGIN_SYSTEM.md
  4. packages/core/docs/PLUGIN_INTEGRATION.md when the plugin is for a core-based shipped app
  5. apps/workspace-playground/README.md
  6. apps/workspace-playground/src/front/App.tsx
  7. apps/workspace-playground/package.json
  8. apps/workspace-playground/src/plugins/playgroundDataCatalog/package.json

Treat packages/pi/skills/boring-plugin-authoring/SKILL.md as the deep canonical authoring manual. This local skill is the repo-specific dispatcher that tells you which path to use.

Also follow PROGRESS_DISCLOSURE.md while implementing so the user always knows the current plugin shape, load path, and restart/reload requirement.


Use DECISION_TREE.md before writing files.

Decision table

Need Choose
live local experimentation, /reload, no trusted backend routes .pi/extensions/<name>/
app-owned domain logic, trusted routes/tools, production app package app/internal plugin package
provider/binding plugin that wraps React tree app/internal plugin package + static front composition
panel/command/catalog/surface-resolver only either, but shipped apps usually use app/internal packages

Read the full file on GitHub · 293 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files 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. 3d ago First seen · 293 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 31991375df95

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boring-plugin-build is a skill published in the GitHub repository hachej/boring-ui (46 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 2,235 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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