dale-index

dale-index is a skill for Codex from lubluniky/dale. It costs 51 tokens per session (837 once invoked), scanned A, original, MPL-2.0.

A repository-indexing workflow that examines a software project and creates evidence-backed files describing its requirements, context, current state, tests, design, and decisions. A repository is the project's tracked source files and history.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to map a repository, bootstrap project documentation, inspect its current condition, and create REQ.md, CONTEXT.md, STATE.md, TDD.md, DESIGN.md, and DECISIONS.md files.
Why use it?
It gives agents and developers a shared description of an existing codebase instead of relying on guesses or scattered notes.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Codex; $skill-name invocation.

Good fit Use it to map a repository, bootstrap project documentation, inspect its current condition, and create REQ.md, CONTEXT.md, STATE.md, TDD.md, DESIGN.md, and DECISIONS.md files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lubluniky/dale/dale-index
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 lubluniky/dale --skill dale-index
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lubluniky/dale

Made for: 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 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 837 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 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 $0.00051 $0.00837
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00418
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00167
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00084

Measured 4d ago against content hash 0843d4dd8418, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dale-index 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 4d 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/dale-index/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dale Index

Build a compact source of truth from the repository as it exists now. The calling agent integrates and writes; independent discovery uses read-only subagents where repository scope justifies parallel work.

Bound the refresh

Inspect applicable instructions, Git state, manifests, entrypoints, tests, schemas, and existing primitives. Preserve unrelated edits and hand-written content unless current evidence disproves it. No saved Codex project is needed.

For an initial index, cover the repository's material boundaries. For a refresh, use the last documented revision and actual changes to inspect affected claims and their consumers. Include uncommitted changes. When the baseline is missing or unreliable, broaden inspection rather than claiming incremental coverage.

Own each fact once

File Owns
REQ.md Product intent, users, scope, requirements, acceptance criteria
CONTEXT.md Architecture, repository map, contracts, constraints, operations
STATE.md Current work, blockers, risks, next actions
TDD.md Test strategy, actual commands, quality gates, missing coverage
DESIGN.md Existing visual language, components, states, accessibility
DECISIONS.md Dated decisions, alternatives, evidence, consequences, status

Use the established primitive directory even when its set is incomplete. Add missing documents there and preserve relative links. Use the repository root only when no established location exists; resolve competing locations from repository conventions before writing. Use assets/primitives/ for new files, removing scaffold placeholders. Link to the fact's owning file. Mark non-UI projects explicitly in DESIGN.md. Keep STATE volatile and DECISIONS durable; do not invent dates, owners, product intent, or historical decisions.

Discover and integrate

Work directly for small repositories or a narrow refresh. Delegate independent areas when that saves time or improves coverage; there is no required worker count. Read index-roles.md when splitting discovery. Its roles are coverage suggestions, not mandatory agents.

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 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. 4d ago Changed · -87 lines · -35 tokens per session 0843d4dd8418
  2. 12d ago First seen · 171 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 5aeb96b00f96

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dale-index is a skill published in the GitHub repository lubluniky/dale (51 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MPL-2.0. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 837 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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