sota

sota is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from JHostalek/dotclaude. It costs 27 tokens per session (93 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC0-1.0.

A workflow for making a current, state-of-the-art recommendation using domain knowledge and brief web research.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for recommending an approach that fits a specific situation after checking current external information.
Why use it?
It helps account for recent practices, standards, and known implementation problems instead of relying only on older general knowledge.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the jhostalek-skills plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for recommending an approach that fits a specific situation after checking current external information.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jhostalek/dotclaude/sota
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 JHostalek/dotclaude --skill sota
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JHostalek/dotclaude

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install jhostalek-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for sota

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jhostalek/dotclaude/sota/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/jhostalek/dotclaude/sota)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jhostalek/dotclaude/sota"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jhostalek/dotclaude/sota/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for sota

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jhostalek/dotclaude/sota"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jhostalek/dotclaude/sota.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 93 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 $0.00027 $0.00093
Opus 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00037
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00019
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00009

Measured 2d ago against content hash 792eb153d7be, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sota 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/sota/SKILL.md · 10 lines

What it actually says

SOTA

Draw on your existing domain knowledge, including established practices and known failure modes from others’ implementations. Search the web for current state-of-the-art approaches, industry standards, and how others solve this problem. Recommend the best solution for this specific context.

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 Changed · -6 lines · +5 tokens per session 792eb153d7be
  2. 9d ago Changed · +8 lines · -6 tokens per session 0fdbe43a7535
  3. 1mo ago Changed · -1 lines 5225566562cb
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 9 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A eb57031ccc4e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sota is a skill published in the GitHub repository JHostalek/dotclaude (11 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 93 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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