torvalds-doctrine

torvalds-doctrine is a skill for Claude Code from leopiney/linus-torvalds-skills. It costs 41 tokens per session (1,283 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A coding skill based on Linus Torvalds-inspired rules for AI-assisted development.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for guiding code design and reviews toward simplicity, data-first decisions, evidence, and explicit checks for made-up or unsound reasoning.
Why use it?
It pushes the agent to let data structures shape the design, prefer simple code, support claims with proof, and detect questionable output.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the linus-torvalds-skills plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit It is for guiding code design and reviews toward simplicity, data-first decisions, evidence, and explicit checks for made-up or unsound reasoning.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/leopiney/linus-torvalds-skills/torvalds-doctrine
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 leopiney/linus-torvalds-skills --skill torvalds-doctrine
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/leopiney/linus-torvalds-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install linus-torvalds-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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README.md
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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,283 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 unknown 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 $0.00041 $0.01283
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00642
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00257
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00128

Measured 12d ago against content hash c1f4d025ffd0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

torvalds-doctrine 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 12d 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/torvalds-doctrine/SKILL.md · 142 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 12d ago First seen · 142 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A c1f4d025ffd0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

torvalds-doctrine is a skill published in the GitHub repository leopiney/linus-torvalds-skills (283 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,283 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.

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