wp-plugin-dto

wp-plugin-dto is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Lonsdale201/wp-agent-skills. It costs 147 tokens per session (2,574 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to data-transfer objects, which are small named structures for moving validated data between parts of a WordPress plugin. It uses native PHP and does not require an extra data library.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for handling request data, settings, post metadata, database results, API responses, scheduled jobs, and admin-screen data.
Why use it?
It helps replace fragile raw arrays with predictable data shapes while avoiding unchecked conversions, missing values, and accidental exposure of secrets.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It is for handling request data, settings, post metadata, database results, API responses, scheduled jobs, and admin-screen data.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lonsdale201/wp-agent-skills/wp-plugin-dto
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 Lonsdale201/wp-agent-skills --skill wp-plugin-dto
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Lonsdale201/wp-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 147 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,574 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00147 $0.02574
Opus 5 $0.00073 $0.01287
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00515
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00257

Measured 9d ago against content hash fc91501b6498, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wp-plugin-dto 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 9d 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.

plugin-scaffold/wp-plugin-dto/SKILL.md · 228 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 228 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

WordPress plugin: native DTOs

For plugin code that moves structured data between request input, options, meta, custom tables, external APIs, REST controllers, admin screens, cron jobs, and presenters. A DTO gives that data one named shape instead of leaking raw arrays across the plugin.

This skill is intentionally better-data-free. If the project already uses better-data, run bd-data-object; otherwise use this native pattern.

When to load references

Misconception this skill corrects

"A DTO is just an array with nicer comments."

Wrong direction. A DTO is a small immutable boundary object with a named schema, explicit defaults, and one hydration path. It prevents common AI mistakes: unchecked (int) casts, empty() swallowing 0, isset() hiding intentional null, dynamic properties, leaking secrets through to_array(), and passing $_POST or raw post meta directly to business logic.

When to use this skill

Trigger when ANY of the following is true:

  • Introducing FooDto, FooData, SettingsData, RequestData, Payload, or a value object.
  • A repository, REST controller, admin page, cron job, or WooCommerce hook currently passes large associative arrays around.
  • Data comes from $_GET, $_POST, REST params, options, post meta, user meta, term meta, custom tables, WP_Post, WP_User, or WooCommerce objects.
  • Reviewing hydration / normalization code with casts like (int), (bool), intval, settype, empty, isset, get_object_vars, or dynamic property assignment.
  • Presenter or REST response code needs a stable input object.

Read the full file on GitHub · 228 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 9d ago First seen · 228 lines · 147 tokens per session scan A fc91501b6498

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wp-plugin-dto is a skill published in the GitHub repository Lonsdale201/wp-agent-skills (22 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 147 tokens to every session and 2,574 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-09-03.

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