coding-prefs

A preference file that records how a particular user wants coding work handled, such as code style, testing tools, comments, and commit messages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking preferences before making non-trivial coding decisions and saving durable feedback for later conversations.
Why use it?
It helps the coding agent apply the user's established working preferences consistently across future tasks instead of making those choices repeatedly.

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/langchain-ai/deepagents/coding-prefs
Any agent
npx skills add langchain-ai/deepagents --skill coding-prefs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/langchain-ai/deepagents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 281 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 $0.00036 $0.00281
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00140
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00056
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00028

Measured 2d ago against content hash bd25243f2f61, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

coding-prefs 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 2d 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.

examples/deploy-coding-agent/skills/coding-prefs/SKILL.md · 36 lines

What it actually says

Coding Preferences Skill

Use this skill to keep /memory/coding-prefs.md in sync with how this specific user wants you to work. This file is user-scoped, so each user has their own copy — anything you write here only affects future conversations with the same user.

When to Read

  • Before picking a code style, test framework, or commit message format
  • Before deciding whether to add comments, type hints, or docstrings
  • Before refactoring beyond what was asked

When to Write

Append a new entry whenever the user gives feedback that should apply to future work:

  • "Don't add docstrings unless I ask" → save it
  • "I prefer pytest over unittest" → save it
  • "Stop summarizing what you did at the end" → save it

Each entry should be one line: the rule, then a brief reason if the user gave one.

How to Write

Read the file first (it may not exist yet), then append. Don't overwrite — preferences accumulate over time. If a new preference contradicts an existing one, replace the old line and note the change.

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. 2d ago First seen · 36 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A bd25243f2f61

Subscribe to this mod's changes

coding-prefs is a skill published in the GitHub repository langchain-ai/deepagents (28,825 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 281 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 2026-08-30.