code-antipatterns

code-antipatterns is a skill for Claude Code from laurigates/claude-plugins. It costs 45 tokens per session (2,104 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An anti-pattern scanner searches source code for practices that often cause bugs or security problems, such as magic numbers, excessive any, eval, innerHTML, and deeply nested code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan JavaScript, TypeScript, Vue, or Python code, produce a findings report, and decide which patterns need fixing.
Why use it?
It helps expose risky or hard-to-maintain patterns that a normal linter may not cover.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the TodoWrite tool; positional $N argument.

Part of the code-quality-plugin plugin — 17 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to scan JavaScript, TypeScript, Vue, or Python code, produce a findings report, and decide which patterns need fixing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/laurigates/claude-plugins/code-antipatterns
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 laurigates/claude-plugins --skill code-antipatterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/laurigates/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install code-quality-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for code-antipatterns

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for code-antipatterns

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,104 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Agent Snooping · line 119
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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 $0.00045 $0.02104
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00842
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00421
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00210

Measured 1mo ago against content hash d6de49381809, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

code-antipatterns 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/tests/test-rules-project.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

code-quality-plugin/skills/code-antipatterns/SKILL.md · 198 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 198 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when... Use something else instead when...
Running a parallel anti-pattern scan and producing a report Looking up the full YAML rule catalog → see REFERENCE.md
Specifically targeting empty catches, floating promises, or || true Use the dedicated scanner → code-hidden-failures --track errors
Finding success-on-empty / silent degradation patterns Use the dedicated scanner → code-hidden-failures --track degradation
Broad code-quality review across security, perf, and architecture Run the full review delegate → code-review

Context

  • Analysis path: $1 (defaults to current directory if not specified)
  • JS/TS files: !find . -type f \( -name "*.js" -o -name "*.ts" -o -name "*.jsx" -o -name "*.tsx" \)
  • Vue files: !find . -name "*.vue"
  • Python files: !find . -name "*.py"

Your Task

Perform comprehensive anti-pattern analysis. The mechanical detection is one deterministic ast-grep scan over a shipped rule project — you do not re-type sg -p '…' patterns and do not fan out agents just to run them. Your job is the judgment: severity triage, recommendations, and fix planning on top of the scan's structured findings.

Step 1: Run the deterministic scan

The detection catalog lives as an ast-grep rule project in rules/ (one *.yml per pattern under rules/lib/, each with a valid/invalid test fixture in rules/tests/). Run the whole catalog in one pass:

ast-grep scan -c ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/rules/sgconfig.yml --json=compact <path>

Each JSON finding carries ruleId, file, range (line/column), message, and the matched text. Parse this — it is the raw finding set for every category below. The rules cover: empty catch, console.log, var, eval/new Function, innerHTML/outerHTML, as any / : any annotations, magic-number timers, Vue props mutation, Python mutable defaults, bare except, global, and type() ==.

Read the full file on GitHub · 198 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. 1mo ago First seen · 198 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A d6de49381809

Subscribe to this mod's changes

code-antipatterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository laurigates/claude-plugins (59 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 2,104 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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