sg-service-shell

sg-service-shell is a skill for Claude Code from kyleoliveiro/sg-gov-skills. It costs 169 tokens per session (3,360 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A starter framework for Singapore government digital services. It covers the official government banner, WOGAA registration and tracking, the official footer, a `.gov.sg` domain, Singapore Design System setup, and related trust, design, and reliability requirements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare the common service structure and check the Trust & Legitimacy, Baseline Design Practices, and Performance & Reliability controls for a Singapore government service.
Why use it?
Public-facing government services need consistent signs that they are genuine, as well as baseline design and reliability practices. Setting up this shell early makes those required foundations part of the service before feature work begins.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the digital-service-standards plugin — 3 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare the common service structure and check the Trust & Legitimacy, Baseline Design Practices, and Performance & Reliability controls for a Singapore government service.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kyleoliveiro/sg-gov-skills/sg-service-shell
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 kyleoliveiro/sg-gov-skills --skill sg-service-shell
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kyleoliveiro/sg-gov-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install digital-service-standards, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

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Per session 169 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,360 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 $0.00169 $0.03360
Opus 5 $0.00084 $0.01680
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.00672
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00336

Measured 11d ago against content hash 61f21462bfd3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sg-service-shell 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/sg-service-shell/SKILL.md · 250 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 250 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SG government service shell (DSS: TL + BD + PR)

Every public-facing digital service delivered for a Singapore government agency must implement a common "shell" before any feature work matters: proof of legitimacy (users must be able to tell it is really the government), baseline design practices, and performance/reliability basics. These are codified as 22 controls in three families of the Digital Service Standards (DSS) under the ICT&SS Policy Reform (successor to IM8): TL (Trust & Legitimacy, 6), BD (Baseline Design Practices, 9), PR (Performance & Reliability, 7).

Three of these are Level 0 — mandatory, no deviation permitted — in both DSS profiles. Do those first. Most of the rest are Level 1 (default; skipping one requires documented agency IDSC/CIO/CISO approval in a custom System Security Plan). BD-3/4/5 are Level 2 (best practice).

Source and currency

Control text in this skill and in references/tl-bd-pr-controls.md is embedded from info.standards.tech.gov.sg as of 2026-07-16. The standards iterate actively — for compliance-critical decisions, verify against the live catalog:

Read references/tl-bd-pr-controls.md for the full control statements, recommendations, risk statements, and parameters when you need exact wording.

Build checklist, in priority order

1. Level 0 — mandatory, no deviation

TL-3 — Official Government Banner. Display the Official Government Banner ("A Singapore Government Agency Website") on every page of web-based .gov.sg services, as the topmost component — above the agency logo, above navigation, above everything. Why: it is the single strongest signal users have to distinguish real government services from phishing clones. The control prescribes the SGDS component; in SGDS it is named Masthead:

Read the full file on GitHub · 250 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 250 lines · 169 tokens per session scan A 61f21462bfd3

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sg-service-shell is a skill published in the GitHub repository kyleoliveiro/sg-gov-skills (16 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 169 tokens to every session and 3,360 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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