indexing-registry

indexing-registry is a skill for Claude Code from jamesgray-ai/handsonai-plugins. It costs 129 tokens per session (1,640 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A system for maintaining a workspace's AI Registry: a set of knowledge files about workflows and related work, plus generated indexes and dashboards.

In plain words
What is it for?
Updating, checking, indexing, and generating dashboards for the registry.
Why use it?
It keeps the source information and its summaries consistent by regenerating derived views from the original files.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the handsonai plugin — 12 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Updating, checking, indexing, and generating dashboards for the registry.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jamesgray-ai/handsonai-plugins/indexing-registry
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 jamesgray-ai/handsonai-plugins --skill indexing-registry
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jamesgray-ai/handsonai-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install handsonai, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 1 agent.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 129 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,640 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 $0.00129 $0.01640
Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.00820
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00328
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00164

Measured 10d ago against content hash 46c50ec36435, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

indexing-registry 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 10d 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.

plugins/handsonai/skills/indexing-registry/SKILL.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Maintaining the AI Registry

The AI Registry is the registry/ knowledge bundle at the workspace root, plus everything derived from it: directory indexes, GENERATED blocks inside individual nodes, the REGISTRY.md dashboard, and — on request — the visual HTML dashboard.

The registry is derived-state doctrine. The bundle's node files (under registry/) are the source of truth. Every dashboard, index, and summary is generated from them. Edit sources, regenerate — never hand-edit a derived view. If a derived view looks wrong, that's a signal to fix the source node and regenerate, not to patch the view directly.

For how nodes are resolved, written, and owned — resolution rules, write rules, the field-ownership table, framework-progress inference, review scheduling, and the full lint rule list — see references/registry-bundle.md. This skill assumes that contract; it doesn't restate it.

Location & Scope

One workspace = one registry. The bundle lives at registry/ off the root of the folder the framework operates in — beside outputs/, sops/, and process-guides/. Where that root is, and how bytes get read and written there, depends on the platform — see the platform matrix in the framework's cross-platform delivery documentation. Claude Code and Cowork read and write the bundle directly; claude.ai and other connector-based platforms generate and commit through their connector, with anything unwritten stated explicitly.

Terminology: "AI Registry" always means the registry/ bundle and the views generated from it. It is unrelated to the framework's platform registry (registries/platform-registry.json), which catalogs platforms and integrations for the Design and Build skills.

The maintenance pass

Run all five jobs for a full pass, or just the one the user asked for. Other framework skills invoke this skill from their closing step for the same pass — see Best-effort rule below.

1. Lint

Read every node against the workspace's registry/SCHEMA.md and the rule list in references/registry-bundle.md (§6) — that file is the single source; do not duplicate its rule list here. Report findings in plain language, named by file. Offer fixes; never silently repair meaning — a lint pass corrects mechanical issues (formatting, missing index entries) only with the user's confirmation, and never reinterprets or rewrites a node's content on its own judgment.

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 10d ago First seen · 97 lines · 129 tokens per session scan A 46c50ec36435

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indexing-registry is a skill published in the GitHub repository jamesgray-ai/handsonai-plugins (8 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 129 tokens to every session and 1,640 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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