kotlin-tooling-java-to-kotlin

kotlin-tooling-java-to-kotlin is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Kotlin/kotlin-agent-skills. It costs 100 tokens per session (1,476 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for converting Java source files into Kotlin source files, including code that uses frameworks such as Spring, Lombok, Hibernate, or Jackson. Kotlin is a programming language that works with Java and often expresses the same code more compactly.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to convert selected Java files, preserve their public interfaces, adapt framework annotations and library patterns, and verify the resulting Kotlin code.
Why use it?
It reduces conversion mistakes by detecting the frameworks in each file and checking important behavior and API details after the change. It also handles renaming files from `.java` to `.kt`.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to convert selected Java files, preserve their public interfaces, adapt framework annotations and library patterns, and verify the resulting Kotlin code.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kotlin/kotlin-agent-skills/kotlin-tooling-java-to-kotlin
About the project

Kotlin/kotlin-agent-skills is a collection of packaged instructions, scripts, and resources that help coding agents handle projects written in Kotlin. It is for developers using Kotlin, with skills covering areas such as backend frameworks and build tooling. The catalogue entries are the individual Kotlin-focused skills distributed from the repository.

Kotlin/kotlin-agent-skills · 1,039 stars · on GitHub · kotlinlang.org

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 Kotlin/kotlin-agent-skills --skill kotlin-tooling-java-to-kotlin
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,476 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 21 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 21 Mar 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00100 $0.01476
Opus 5 $0.00050 $0.00738
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00295
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00148

Measured 11d ago against content hash 5b372715adac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kotlin-tooling-java-to-kotlin 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 11d 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/kotlin-tooling-java-to-kotlin/SKILL.md · 139 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 139 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Java to Kotlin Conversion

Convert Java source files to idiomatic Kotlin using a disciplined 4-step conversion methodology with 5 invariants checked at each step. Supports framework-aware conversion that handles annotation site targets, library idioms, and API preservation.

Workflow

digraph j2k_workflow {
  rankdir=TB;
  "User specifies files" -> "Step 0: Scan & Detect";
  "Step 0: Scan & Detect" -> "Load framework guides";
  "Load framework guides" -> "Step 1: Convert";
  "Step 1: Convert" -> "Step 2: Write .kt";
  "Step 2: Write .kt" -> "Step 3: Git rename";
  "Step 3: Git rename" -> "Step 4: Verify";
  "Step 4: Verify" -> "Next file?" [label="pass"];
  "Step 4: Verify" -> "Fix issues" [label="fail"];
  "Fix issues" -> "Step 1: Convert";
  "Next file?" -> "Step 0: Scan & Detect" [label="batch: yes"];
  "Next file?" -> "Done" [label="no more files"];
}

Step 0: Scan & Detect Frameworks

Before converting, scan the Java file's import statements to detect which frameworks are in use. Load ONLY the matching framework reference files to keep context focused.

Framework Detection Table

Import prefix Framework guide
org.springframework.* SPRING.md
lombok.* LOMBOK.md
javax.persistence.*, jakarta.persistence.*, org.hibernate.* HIBERNATE.md
com.fasterxml.jackson.* JACKSON.md
io.micronaut.* MICRONAUT.md
io.quarkus.*, javax.enterprise.*, jakarta.enterprise.* QUARKUS.md
dagger.*, dagger.hilt.* DAGGER-HILT.md
io.reactivex.*, rx.* RXJAVA.md
org.junit.*, org.testng.* JUNIT.md
com.google.inject.* GUICE.md
retrofit2.*, okhttp3.* RETROFIT.md
org.mockito.* MOCKITO.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 139 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. 11d ago First seen · 139 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A 5b372715adac

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kotlin-tooling-java-to-kotlin is a skill published in the GitHub repository Kotlin/kotlin-agent-skills (1,039 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 1,476 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.

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