elps: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/implement/SKILL.md

implement is a skill for Claude Code from luthersystems/elps. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,870 once invoked), scanned A, original, BSD-3-Clause.

A general workflow for changing the ELPS codebase, covering features, bug fixes, built-ins, parser changes, command-line options, tests, and documentation. It chooses project-specific files and test patterns based on the type of change.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for ordinary implementation changes anywhere in the ELPS project.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of putting code in the wrong part of the interpreter or omitting the expected tests. It provides a consistent starting point for many kinds of code work.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

This is luthersystems/elps's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on elps itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything elps configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to luthersystems/elps. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/luthersystems/elps/main/.claude/skills/implement/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/luthersystems/elps

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,870 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

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00000 $0.01870
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00748
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00374
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00187

Measured 2d ago against content hash fd9c0ac40c29, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

implement 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 2d 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/implement/SKILL.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/implement — Code Change Skill

Implements any code change in the ELPS codebase. This is the foundation skill — all other skills reference its patterns.

Trigger

Use when asked to implement a feature, fix a bug, add a builtin, modify the parser, update the formatter, add CLI flags, update docs, or make any other code change.

Workflow

1. Classify the Change

Determine the change type to know which files to touch:

Type Primary Files Test Pattern
builtin lisp/builtins.go (langBuiltins) elpstest.TestSuite in a topical lisp/*_test.go (e.g. math_test.go)
special-op lisp/op.go (langSpecialOps) elpstest.TestSuite in a topical lisp/*_test.go
macro lisp/macro.go (langMacros) elpstest.TestSuite in lisp/macro_test.go or a topical file
linter lint/analyzers.go, lint/lint.go lint/lint_test.go (use /add-linter-check skill)
elpsvet cmd/elpsvet/ go test ./cmd/elpsvet/ (use /elpsvet skill)
fuzz <pkg>/fuzz_test.go, internal/fuzzseed/ make fuzz (use /fuzz skill)
stdlib lisp/lisplib/lib<name>/ elpstest.Runner + .lisp test file (use /add-stdlib-package skill)
cli cmd/<command>.go Manual verification or integration tests
formatter formatter/formatter.go formatter/formatter_test.go (TestASTPreservation, TestRepoFileRoundTrip)
parser parser/rdparser/parser.go, parser/lexer/ parser/rdparser/parser_test.go
diagnostic diagnostic/diagnostic.go, diagnostic/renderer.go diagnostic/renderer_test.go
bug-fix Varies — find the root cause first Regression test reproducing the bug
docs docs/lang.md (embedded), docs/templates.md, docs/embed.md, docs/minify.md, docs/lint-checks.md, AGENTS.md, skills ./elps doc --guide to verify rendering of embedded guides
deps go.mod, go.sum make test to verify compatibility
ci .github/workflows/*.yml Push and verify Actions run
profiler lisp/x/profiler/ Profiler-specific tests

Read the full file on GitHub · 138 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. 2d ago First seen · 138 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A fd9c0ac40c29

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implement is a skill published in the GitHub repository luthersystems/elps (36 stars, last pushed today), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,870 tokens. 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 2026-10-26.