perl-development

perl-development is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jxoesneon/Ciel. It costs 26 tokens per session (573 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to writing modern Perl 5.36+ code with defensive security practices and the Test2::V0 testing framework. It covers safer input handling, SQL queries, file access, objects, and tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building or reviewing Perl web programs, command-line tools, database code, reusable objects, and automated tests.
Why use it?
It reduces common Perl risks such as SQL injection, unsafe file handling, and unvalidated web input. It also gives code and tests a consistent modern style.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when building or reviewing Perl web programs, command-line tools, database code, reusable objects, and automated tests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jxoesneon/ciel/perl-development
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 jxoesneon/Ciel --skill perl-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jxoesneon/Ciel

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 573 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 $0.00026 $0.00573
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00287
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00115
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00057

Measured 9d ago against content hash 3f9e89b1b754, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

perl-development 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 9d 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/perl-development/SKILL.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

CIEL ADAPTATION: Perl Development (Modern & Secure)

This skill formalizes the use of Perl 5.36+ for CIEL development. it prioritizes the modern feature set (signatures, postfix deref) and defensive security.

Modern Standards (v5.36+)

  1. The Preamble: Use use v5.36; to enable strict, warnings, and subroutine signatures.
  2. Signatures: Use native signatures for all subroutines. Prohibit manual @_ unpacking.
  3. Dereferencing: Use postfix syntax ($ref->@*, $ref->%*) for readability.
  4. OO: Prefer Moo for lightweight, type-safe objects. Use Moo::Role for composition.

Defensive Security

  • Taint Mode: Enable -T for all web/CGI entry points. Explicitly untaint via specific regex.
  • Injection: Mandate DBI placeholders (?) for all SQL. Prohibit string interpolation in queries.
  • File I/O: ALWAYS use the 3-argument open with explicit encoding (e.g., <:encoding(UTF-8)).

Testing (Test2::V0)

  • Framework: Standardize on Test2::V0. it is CIEL's canonical Perl testing suite.
  • Deep Comparison: Use the hash/array builders (field, item) for partial structure matching.
  • Mocking: Use Test::MockModule to isolate boundaries without leaking state between tests.

Anti-Patterns

  • Global Pollution: Using our variables for cross-module state. Use DI or attributes.
  • Two-Arg Open: Using open FH, $file (shell injection risk).
  • String Eval: Using eval "require $m" (remote code execution risk).
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. 9d ago First seen · 51 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 3f9e89b1b754

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perl-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository jxoesneon/Ciel (1 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 573 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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