engineering-foundations

engineering-foundations is a skill for Claude Code from jasonmeans/pm-skills. It costs 43 tokens per session (366 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A set of repeatable practices for architecture decisions, testing strategy, and code review. It focuses on building consistent engineering habits and technical skills.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for planning engineering skill growth, improving delivery practices, and creating weekly technical exercises.
Why use it?
It helps make development decisions and quality checks more deliberate and repeatable.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit It is for planning engineering skill growth, improving delivery practices, and creating weekly technical exercises.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jasonmeans/pm-skills/engineering-foundations
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 jasonmeans/pm-skills --skill engineering-foundations
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jasonmeans/pm-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 366 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 unknown 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 $0.00043 $0.00366
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00183
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00073
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00037

Measured 8d ago against content hash 44b721e1041d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

engineering-foundations 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 8d 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.

.claude/skills/engineering-foundations/SKILL.md · 50 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 8d ago First seen · 50 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 44b721e1041d

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engineering-foundations is a skill published in the GitHub repository jasonmeans/pm-skills (2 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 366 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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