coding-standards

A baseline set of coding conventions for naming, readability, immutability, error handling, and maintainable structure. It applies across programming languages and projects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting modules, reviewing or refactoring code, setting up linting or formatting, or onboarding contributors to common coding expectations.
Why use it?
It gives teams a shared minimum standard for reviewing and writing code. This makes code easier to understand and keeps project practices consistent.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the hydraia plugin — 16 skills, 15 commands, 26 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

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/jdanigo/hydraia/coding-standards
Any agent
npx skills add jdanigo/hydraia --skill coding-standards
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jdanigo/hydraia

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install hydraia, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 15 commands, 26 agents, 4 hooks.

Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,127 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin 92% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00035 $0.03127
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01563
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00625
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00313

Measured 3d ago against content hash f8a05b67c22e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

coding-standards scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 3d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

const response = await fetch(url)
Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to coding-standards — 6 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/coding-standards/SKILL.md · 552 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 552 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Coding Standards & Best Practices

Baseline coding conventions applicable across projects.

This skill is the shared floor, not the detailed framework playbook.

  • Use frontend-patterns for React, state, forms, rendering, and UI architecture.
  • Use backend-patterns or api-design for repository/service layers, endpoint design, validation, and server-specific concerns.
  • Use rules/common/coding-style.md when you need the shortest reusable rule layer instead of a full skill walkthrough.

When to Activate

  • Starting a new project or module
  • Reviewing code for quality and maintainability
  • Refactoring existing code to follow conventions
  • Enforcing naming, formatting, or structural consistency
  • Setting up linting, formatting, or type-checking rules
  • Onboarding new contributors to coding conventions

Scope Boundaries

Activate this skill for:

  • descriptive naming
  • immutability defaults
  • readability, KISS, DRY, and YAGNI enforcement
  • error-handling expectations and code-smell review

Do not use this skill as the primary source for:

  • React composition, hooks, or rendering patterns
  • backend architecture, API design, or database layering
  • domain-specific framework guidance when a narrower ECC skill already exists

Code Quality Principles

1. Readability First

  • Code is read more than written
  • Clear variable and function names
  • Self-documenting code preferred over comments
  • Consistent formatting

2. KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid)

  • Simplest solution that works
  • Avoid over-engineering
  • No premature optimization
  • Easy to understand > clever code

3. DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself)

  • Extract common logic into functions
  • Create reusable components
  • Share utilities across modules
  • Avoid copy-paste programming

4. YAGNI (You Aren't Gonna Need It)

  • Don't build features before they're needed
  • Avoid speculative generality
  • Add complexity only when required
  • Start simple, refactor when needed

TypeScript/JavaScript Standards

Variable Naming

Read the full file on GitHub · 552 lines

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. 3d ago First seen · 552 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A f8a05b67c22e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

coding-standards is a skill published in the GitHub repository jdanigo/hydraia (8 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 3,127 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 92% identical to coding-standards, differing in 6 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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