preflight

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 CodeCodex

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/jpd44/mesh44-plugins/preflight
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, Codex.

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. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00043 $0.01580
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00790
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00316
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00158

Measured yesterday against content hash 8101e4a91df6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 yesterday.

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. yesterday First seen · 165 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 8101e4a91df6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

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