coding-standards

A set of Python coding rules covering error handling, speed, asynchronous code, design principles, documentation, validation, and object-oriented programming. Asynchronous code lets programs handle waiting tasks without stopping other work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during Python development to check exception handling, collection and string operations, asyncio task patterns, data validation, and maintainable program structure.
Why use it?
It gives an agent consistent guidance for writing, reviewing, or refactoring Python code and for avoiding hidden failures or inefficient patterns.

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/ludo-technologies/python-best-practices/coding-standards
Any agent
npx skills add ludo-technologies/python-best-practices --skill coding-standards
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ludo-technologies/python-best-practices

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,626 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 $0.00063 $0.01626
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00813
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00325
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00163

Measured yesterday against content hash 03020b77bd47, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

coding-standards 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 yesterday.

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/coding-standards/SKILL.md · 214 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 214 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Python Coding Standards

A comprehensive collection of Python coding standards and best practices. Designed for AI agents and LLMs to generate high-quality, performant, and maintainable Python code.

Categories

Error Handling [CRITICAL]

Prevent failures from being hidden or reported as successful outcomes.

Rule Description
error-no-silent-exceptions Never swallow exceptions

Performance Optimization [CRITICAL]

Apply Python optimization patterns to improve processing speed and memory efficiency.

Rule Description
perf-list-comprehension Prefer list comprehensions over loops (1.5-2x faster)
perf-generator-expression Use generators for large datasets (O(1) memory)
perf-dict-get Use dict.get() for efficient default values
perf-set-lookup Use set for fast lookups (O(1) vs O(n))
perf-str-join Use join for string concatenation (O(n) vs O(n²))

Async Processing [HIGH]

Efficient asynchronous programming patterns using asyncio.

Rule Description
async-gather Use asyncio.gather for independent tasks
async-create-task Proper background task creation
async-context-manager Resource management with async with
async-semaphore Limit concurrency with semaphores

Design Principles [HIGH]

Software design principles for maintainability and extensibility.

Rule Description
design-philosophy DRY, YAGNI, KISS principles
design-single-responsibility Single Responsibility Principle
design-dependency-injection Loose coupling with dependency injection
design-no-global-singleton Avoid global singletons and module-level shared instances
solid-ocp Open/Closed Principle
solid-lsp Liskov Substitution Principle
solid-isp Interface Segregation Principle
design-pure-functions Prefer pure functions without side effects
design-early-return Reduce nesting with early returns

Read the full file on GitHub · 214 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. yesterday First seen · 214 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 03020b77bd47

Subscribe to this mod's changes

coding-standards is a skill published in the GitHub repository ludo-technologies/python-best-practices (18 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,626 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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