plankton-code-quality

plankton-code-quality is a skill for Claude Code from loulanyue/awesome-claude-notes. It costs 34 tokens per session (2,148 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A write-time code-quality system that formats and checks files whenever an AI coding assistant edits them, then asks an AI model to address remaining problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to enforce formatting and linting across languages such as Python, TypeScript, shell scripts, YAML, JSON, Markdown, and Dockerfiles.
Why use it?
It catches style and lint errors during editing instead of leaving them until a later review or commit.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PostToolUse hook event. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the awesome-claude-notes plugin — 106 skills, 61 commands, 28 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to enforce formatting and linting across languages such as Python, TypeScript, shell scripts, YAML, JSON, Markdown, and Dockerfiles.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/loulanyue/awesome-claude-notes/plankton-code-quality
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 loulanyue/awesome-claude-notes --skill plankton-code-quality
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/loulanyue/awesome-claude-notes

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install awesome-claude-notes, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 106 skills, 61 commands, 28 agents.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,148 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: 2 findings, 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 4
    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.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 240
    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 $0.00034 $0.02148
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01074
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00430
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00215

Measured 5d ago against content hash 889b80f33658, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plankton-code-quality 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 5d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

6 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

docs/ja-JP/skills/plankton-code-quality/SKILL.md · 246 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 246 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Plankton Code Quality Skill

Integration reference for Plankton (credit: @alxfazio), a write-time code quality enforcement system for Claude Code. Plankton runs formatters and linters on every file edit via PostToolUse hooks, then spawns Claude subprocesses to fix violations the agent didn't catch.

When to Use

  • You want automatic formatting and linting on every file edit (not just at commit time)
  • You need defense against agents modifying linter configs to pass instead of fixing code
  • You want tiered model routing for fixes (Haiku for simple style, Sonnet for logic, Opus for types)
  • You work with multiple languages (Python, TypeScript, Shell, YAML, JSON, TOML, Markdown, Dockerfile)

How It Works

Three-Phase Architecture

Every time Claude Code edits or writes a file, Plankton's multi_linter.sh PostToolUse hook runs:

Phase 1: Auto-Format (Silent)
├─ Runs formatters (ruff format, biome, shfmt, taplo, markdownlint)
├─ Fixes 40-50% of issues silently
└─ No output to main agent

Phase 2: Collect Violations (JSON)
├─ Runs linters and collects unfixable violations
├─ Returns structured JSON: {line, column, code, message, linter}
└─ Still no output to main agent

Phase 3: Delegate + Verify
├─ Spawns claude -p subprocess with violations JSON
├─ Routes to model tier based on violation complexity:
│   ├─ Haiku: formatting, imports, style (E/W/F codes) — 120s timeout
│   ├─ Sonnet: complexity, refactoring (C901, PLR codes) — 300s timeout
│   └─ Opus: type system, deep reasoning (unresolved-attribute) — 600s timeout
├─ Re-runs Phase 1+2 to verify fixes
└─ Exit 0 if clean, Exit 2 if violations remain (reported to main agent)

What the Main Agent Sees

Scenario Agent sees Hook exit
No violations Nothing 0
All fixed by subprocess Nothing 0
Violations remain after subprocess [hook] N violation(s) remain 2
Advisory (duplicates, old tooling) [hook:advisory] ... 0

The main agent only sees issues the subprocess couldn't fix. Most quality problems are resolved transparently.

Read the full file on GitHub · 246 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. 5d ago First seen · 246 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 889b80f33658

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plankton-code-quality is a skill published in the GitHub repository loulanyue/awesome-claude-notes (270 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 2,148 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 2026-09-03.