preflight

A pre-submission checklist for a pull request, which is a proposed set of code changes for review. It runs mechanical checks such as formatting, linting, building, protected-file checks, and commit verification.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before opening a pull request to inspect the working tree, compare changes with the main branch, verify ticket references, and summarize the proposed changes.
Why use it?
It catches routine problems before the code is submitted for review. It also checks whether the branch and commits are ready to validate.

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/linuxfoundation/lfx-self-serve/preflight
Any agent
npx skills add linuxfoundation/lfx-self-serve --skill preflight
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/linuxfoundation/lfx-self-serve

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,534 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 $0.00095 $0.01534
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00767
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00307
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00153

Measured 3d ago against content hash 4b5a24f341ea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

preflight 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 3d 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.

.claude/skills/preflight/SKILL.md · 183 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 183 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pre-Submission Preflight Check

You are running the mechanical pre-PR pipeline before the contributor submits a pull request. Every check here is shell-driven or hook-driven, no judgment calls. Convention and pattern audits live in docs/reviews/frontend-checklist.md (sections 1-14) and run via the post-commit reviewer trio (see .claude/rules/skill-guidance.md for canonical post-commit reviewer-trio launch instructions).

Run each check in order, report results clearly, and help fix any issues found.

Check 0: Working Tree Status

Before running any validation, check the state of the working tree:

git status
git diff --stat origin/main...HEAD
git log --format="%h %s%n%b" origin/main...HEAD

Evaluate:

  • Uncommitted changes? — Ask the contributor: commit now or stash?
  • No commits ahead of main? — The branch has nothing to validate. Ask if they're on the right branch.
  • Commit messages missing a ticket reference? — Flag commits that don't include LFXV2-XXX (JIRA), #XXX (GitHub Issue), or the fully-qualified org/repo#XXX form (e.g. linuxfoundation/lfx-self-serve#1331) in subject or body. See .claude/rules/commit-workflow.md § Ticket Tracking.
  • Commits missing --signoff? — Flag any commits without Signed-off-by: lines (visible in the full commit body above).

Resolve any issues before proceeding to the checks below.

Check 1: License Headers

./check-headers.sh

Every source file (.ts, .html, .scss) must have the license header:

  • TypeScript/SCSS: // Copyright The Linux Foundation and each contributor to LFX. + // SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
  • HTML: <!-- Copyright The Linux Foundation and each contributor to LFX. --> + <!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT -->

If any files are missing headers, add them.

Check 2: Formatting

yarn format

This applies Prettier formatting with Tailwind class sorting. It modifies files in place.

Why format before lint: Prettier auto-fixes whitespace, import ordering, and line-length issues that would otherwise appear as lint errors. Running format first eliminates noise from the lint step.

Read the full file on GitHub · 183 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 3d ago First seen · 183 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A 4b5a24f341ea

Subscribe to this mod's changes

preflight is a skill published in the GitHub repository linuxfoundation/lfx-self-serve (11 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 1,534 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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