A long-term maintenance practice for keeping software safe and affordable to change. It covers technical debt, refactoring, defects, version and interface changes, dependency updates, legacy systems, and retirement.

Use it to maintain an existing system over time. It helps plan technical-debt work, find the causes of defects, refactor under tests, update dependencies and interfaces, and retire old parts safely.

Most software work happens after the first release, and shortcuts can make every later change slower or riskier. This practice makes accumulated problems visible and addresses them without relying on large, risky rewrites.

husbandry — Skill for Claude Code by IamK77/Skill

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 IamK77/Skill --skill husbandry

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/IamK77/Skill

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install engineering, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/iamk77/skill/husbandry/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/iamk77/skill/husbandry)

Your own site

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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.

Your own site · 80×15

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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 1,028 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00029	$0.01028
Opus 5.5	$0.00012	$0.00411
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00006	$0.00206
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.00103

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ca132a8ffb25, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

husbandry 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/engineering/husbandry/SKILL.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

husbandry

Perform evidence-led maintenance and refactoring while preserving required behaviour. Use for cleanup, migration, and reducing an identified maintenance burden.

Inputs

Target maintenance problem; behaviour that must remain; current tests; dependency and compatibility constraints; rollback requirements.

Run record

Use checklist 0.5 or newer for this SOP. Reading or reloading the skill must not reset work. For a new task, run checklist init "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}" --new --path "/absolute/project"; retain its returned ID as RUN. For existing work, use checklist resume "$RUN", then checklist show --run "$RUN". Outside Claude, replace the skill-directory variable with this directory’s actual path.

Commands below record work after it is done. Replace evidence placeholders with concise artifact locations and observations. Manual confirmations are not independent proof; a sensor pass covers only the command and inputs it observed. verify does not close a stage; advance checks that its required readings are fulfilled. Use report --run "$RUN" for the retained history.

Procedure

locate

Locate the actual maintenance burden in code and change history. Decide what is intentionally preserved and what can change; separate cleanup from feature work.

Record these artifacts after doing the work:

Concrete code or change evidence identifies the maintenance problem. checklist check locate burden --run "$RUN" --evidence "<artifact and observation>"
Preserved behaviour and compatibility boundaries are explicit. checklist check locate invariants --run "$RUN" --evidence "<artifact and observation>"

When this stage is fulfilled: checklist advance locate --run "$RUN".

change

Add a characterization test where coverage is insufficient. Make small coherent changes, remove superseded paths, and run the tests that protect the boundary.

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 lines

Files

What ships with it

11 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.

1mo ago Changed · -79 lines · -203 tokens per session ca132a8ffb25
2mo ago First seen · 172 lines · 232 tokens per session scan A af024782334b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

husbandry is a skill published in the GitHub repository IamK77/Skill (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,028 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

Claude Code agent-skills anthropic claude developer-tools skills

husbandry next to 6 skills from other repositories
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husbandryIamK77/Skill	Skill	2	1mo ago	Apache-2.0	A	29	Claude Code
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husbandry

Getting it into your agent

Wrote this? Show the measurements

What it costs to keep this loaded

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

How it starts

husbandry

Inputs

Run record

Procedure

locate

change

What ships with it

What this file has done since we first saw it

husbandry compared with skills from other repositories