preflight

preflight is a skill for Claude Code from jpd44/mesh44-plugins. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,580 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A preflight checklist for a new-app workflow. It checks configuration, AWS and GitHub access, organization membership, and required local command-line tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before creating an app to validate the mesh44 configuration, AWS management-account access, GitHub organization access, developer directories, Node.js, and other required tools.
Why use it?
It finds missing sign-ins, settings, or software before the main workflow starts. Running all checks together gives one summary of what needs fixing.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the app-kit plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it before creating an app to validate the mesh44 configuration, AWS management-account access, GitHub organization access, developer directories, Node.js, and other required tools.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jpd44/mesh44-plugins/preflight
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 jpd44/mesh44-plugins --skill preflight
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jpd44/mesh44-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install app-kit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 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 preflight

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jpd44/mesh44-plugins/preflight/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/jpd44/mesh44-plugins/preflight)
Your own site
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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 preflight

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jpd44/mesh44-plugins/preflight"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jpd44/mesh44-plugins/preflight.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,580 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 $0.00043 $0.01580
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00632
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00316
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00158

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 8101e4a91df6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

preflight 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 1mo 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.

app-kit/skills/preflight/SKILL.md · 165 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 165 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/app-kit:preflight — verify auth and CLIs

Run all checks, collect failures, then print a single summary. Don't bail on the first failure — the user wants to fix everything in one pass.

Load config first

Before any check, read ~/.config/mesh44/config.json:

cat ~/.config/mesh44/config.json

If it doesn't exist, fail with this message and stop:

Missing ~/.config/mesh44/config.json. Copy <plugin>/config.json.example to that path and fill in your AWS management account ID, SSO start URL, GitHub org, and developer dir.

Extract these values for use throughout the checks:

  • aws.mgt_account_id
  • aws.sso_start_url
  • aws.sso_region (default us-east-1)
  • aws.sso_role_name (default AdministratorAccess)
  • github.org
  • developer_dir (and developer_dir_symlinks[])

Expected facts (from config)

Thing Source
AWS mgt account ID aws.mgt_account_id
AWS region aws.default_region
SSO start URL aws.sso_start_url
GitHub org github.org
Node 24.14.0 (per mise.toml; any 22+ is workable)

Checks

Run these in parallel (one Bash call each) and capture exit codes + stdout/stderr.

0. Working directory — must be the Developer root

pwd

Pass if the resolved path matches developer_dir from config (after expanding $HOME / ~) or any entry in developer_dir_symlinks. Use readlink -f . if ambiguous.

The whole new-app flow assumes the new project goes into ./<app-name> from here. If pwd is anywhere else (e.g., inside an existing project, or under ~), fail with:

Run this from your Developer directory: cd <developer_dir> then re-run.

(substitute the actual configured path).

A. Local CLIs present

command -v aws  >/dev/null && aws --version
command -v gh   >/dev/null && gh --version | head -1
command -v mise >/dev/null && mise --version
command -v node >/dev/null && node --version
command -v npm  >/dev/null && npm --version
command -v git  >/dev/null && git --version
command -v npx  >/dev/null && npx --version

Read the full file on GitHub · 165 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. 1mo ago First seen · 165 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 8101e4a91df6

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preflight is a skill published in the GitHub repository jpd44/mesh44-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,580 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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