128-java-generics

128-java-generics is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jabrena/plinth. It costs 147 tokens per session (833 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to Java generics, which let one class or method work safely with different data types. It explains type-safe collections, wildcards, reusable methods, and common problems caused by erased type information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when reviewing generic classes, collections, methods, inheritance, builders, or APIs that accept and return different types.
Why use it?
It helps prevent unsafe casts and raw types while making reusable APIs easier to use correctly.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/128-java-generics
Any agent
npx skills add jabrena/plinth --skill 128-java-generics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jabrena/plinth

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin 128-java-generics/plugin install 128-java-generics after adding the marketplace above.

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README.md
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Per session 147 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 833 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 $0.00147 $0.00833
Opus 5 $0.00073 $0.00417
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00167
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00083

Measured 2d ago against content hash b57b922bc3b4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

128-java-generics 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 2d 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/128-java-generics/SKILL.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Java Generics Best Practices

Review and improve Java code using comprehensive generics best practices that enforce compile-time type safety and enable flexible, reusable APIs.

What is covered in this Skill?

  • Type safety: avoiding raw types, eliminating unsafe casts
  • Code reusability: generic methods and types for multiple type contexts
  • PECS wildcards: ? extends for producers, ? super for consumers
  • Diamond operator for type inference
  • Type erasure awareness: type tokens, factory patterns, array creation
  • Generic inheritance and variance: invariance, covariance, contravariance
  • @SafeVarargs for heap pollution prevention
  • Wildcard capture helpers, self-bounded generics (CRTP) for fluent builders
  • Proper wildcard API design: Comparator<? super T>, Function<? super T, ? extends R>
  • Arrays-vs-generics covariance pitfalls, serialization with TypeReference/TypeToken
  • Generic naming conventions (T, E, K/V, ?), typesafe heterogeneous containers
  • Integration with Records, sealed types, and pattern matching

Scope: The reference is organized by examples (good/bad code patterns) for each core area. Apply recommendations based on applicable examples.

Constraints

Before applying any generics changes, ensure the project compiles. If compilation fails, stop immediately — do not proceed until resolved. After applying improvements, run full verification.

  • MANDATORY: Run ./mvnw compile or mvn compile before applying any change
  • SAFETY: If compilation fails, stop immediately and do not proceed — compilation failure is a blocking condition
  • VERIFY: Run ./mvnw clean verify or mvn clean verify after applying improvements
  • BEFORE APPLYING: Read the reference for detailed examples, good/bad patterns, and constraints
  • EDGE CASE: If request scope is ambiguous, stop and ask a clarifying question before applying changes
  • EDGE CASE: If required inputs, files, or tooling are missing, report what is missing and ask whether to proceed with setup guidance

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 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. 2d ago First seen · 70 lines · 147 tokens per session scan A b57b922bc3b4

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128-java-generics is a skill published in the GitHub repository jabrena/plinth (435 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 147 tokens to every session and 833 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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