playbook

playbook is a skill for Claude Code from john-wilmes/claude-agentic-coding-playbook. It costs 70 tokens per session (1,715 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A configuration reviewer for Claude Code, the coding assistant that uses CLAUDE.md files to follow project instructions. It checks global or project instructions and can merge recommended practices into them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit your Claude Code setup, improve a global CLAUDE.md file, or update the CLAUDE.md file for a project.
Why use it?
It helps find missing, outdated, or conflicting instructions without relying on simple whole-file replacement. This makes it easier to keep Claude Code setup consistent.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to audit your Claude Code setup, improve a global CLAUDE.md file, or update the CLAUDE.md file for a project.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/john-wilmes/claude-agentic-coding-playbook/playbook
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 john-wilmes/claude-agentic-coding-playbook --skill playbook
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/john-wilmes/claude-agentic-coding-playbook

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,715 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 $0.00070 $0.01715
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.00857
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00343
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00171

Measured 8d ago against content hash 28c88de25ec1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

playbook 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.

profiles/combined/skills/playbook/SKILL.md · 191 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 191 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Playbook Configurator

Analyze the user's Claude Code configuration and intelligently merge playbook best practices. Unlike the install script's --wizard mode (which does simple file-level skip/overwrite/backup), this skill understands the semantic content of CLAUDE.md files and merges section-by-section.

Install Root Discovery

Before running any mode, determine where the playbook's .claude/ directory is installed. The install root may differ from ~/.claude/ if the user ran install.sh --root <path>.

Run the install-root discovery helper:

INSTALL_ROOT=$(bash ~/.claude/scripts/skills/find-install-root.sh)

All <INSTALL_ROOT> references below use this resolved path.

Modes

Parse $ARGUMENTS to determine the mode:

  • global (default if no argument): Analyze and improve <INSTALL_ROOT>/.claude/CLAUDE.md
  • project: Analyze and improve the current project's CLAUDE.md
  • check: Audit current configuration and report what is missing or outdated

Steps for global mode

1. Read the user's global CLAUDE.md

Read <INSTALL_ROOT>/.claude/CLAUDE.md. If it does not exist, offer to create one from scratch using the playbook template.

2. Analyze existing sections

Identify the sections in the user's file. Map them to the playbook's recommended sections:

Playbook recommended sections:

  • The Workflow (Explore, Plan, Code, Verify, Commit)
  • Reasoning Standards (evidence-based debugging, hypothesis-driven, cite sources)
  • Efficiency and Cost Optimization (parallel calls, no re-reads, model routing)
  • Context and Session Management (fresh sessions, /compact, subagents)
  • Quality Gates (type-check, lint before commit)
  • Testing and Verification (lowest-level tests, continuous feedback loop)
  • Code Review (automated review on every commit)
  • Security (no credentials, sandbox mode, MCP server restrictions)
  • Git Discipline (no --no-verify, no force-push)
  • File Creation Rules (no orphan files, no one-off scripts)
  • Memory File Discipline (Current Work tracking, lessons learned)
  • Repository Hygiene (.gitignore, no large files)

Read the full file on GitHub · 191 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. 8d ago First seen · 191 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 28c88de25ec1

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playbook is a skill published in the GitHub repository john-wilmes/claude-agentic-coding-playbook (4 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 1,715 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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