056-design-avoid-breaking-changes

056-design-avoid-breaking-changes is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jabrena/plinth. It costs 106 tokens per session (845 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A review guide for finding breaking-change and compatibility risks in planned repository changes. A breaking change is an update that can stop existing commands, code, data, documentation, or workflows from working.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review plans, OpenSpec changes, specifications, or implementation proposals and produce a severity-ranked compatibility report with evidence and validation guidance.
Why use it?
It helps reveal affected contracts before implementation or release, including APIs, configuration, schemas, generated files, tests, CI, installers, and documentation. The review is evidence-based and does not change the repository.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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/jabrena/plinth/056-design-avoid-breaking-changes
Any agent
npx skills add jabrena/plinth --skill 056-design-avoid-breaking-changes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jabrena/plinth

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 106 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 845 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 5.1 $0.00106 $0.00845
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00423
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00169
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00085

Measured 6d ago against content hash f393e70d5b13, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

056-design-avoid-breaking-changes 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 6d 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/056-design-avoid-breaking-changes/SKILL.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Avoid Breaking Changes

Review planned repository changes for breaking-change and compatibility risk before implementation or release promotion. This is an interactive SKILL.

What is covered in this Skill?

  • Command contract compatibility: names, inputs, owning agents, outputs, safeguards, installer registration, and command inventories
  • Skill routing compatibility: identifiers, metadata, descriptions, triggers, references, generated local output, and acceptance coverage
  • Generated-output ownership: XML/source files versus .agents/skills, public skills/, .cursor/commands, .cursor/rules, and docs/
  • Source and generator contracts: XML, XInclude, XSLT, Maven modules, schema expectations, and module validation
  • README, localized README, changelog, migration, and deprecation guidance
  • External and runtime contracts: APIs, schemas, data formats, configuration keys, persistence, CLI behavior, and CI expectations
  • Structured compatibility reports with severity-ranked findings and validation guidance

Constraints

Keep the review evidence-based, read-only, and scoped to compatibility risk unless the user explicitly asks for implementation.

  • MUST read references/056-design-avoid-breaking-changes.md before producing compatibility guidance
  • MUST identify the source artifacts reviewed and the compatibility surfaces considered
  • MUST distinguish confirmed breaking changes, potential risks, non-breaking changes, and unknowns that need maintainer decision
  • MUST include migration, deprecation, validation, or release-note guidance for intentional breaking changes
  • MUST respect repository source ownership: edit XML and source docs, regenerate generated output through documented workflows, and avoid direct generated-output edits unless the repository explicitly owns that file
  • MUST NOT modify plans, specs, source files, generated outputs, or issue descriptions during review unless the user explicitly requests implementation

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 6d ago First seen · 69 lines · 106 tokens per session scan A f393e70d5b13

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056-design-avoid-breaking-changes is a skill published in the GitHub repository jabrena/plinth (435 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 106 tokens to every session and 845 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.

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