rf-language

rf-language is a skill for Claude Code from manykarim/robotframework-agentskills. It costs 24 tokens per session (5,601 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to Robot Framework's test language for writing and reviewing .robot and .resource files. It covers test cases, reusable keywords, variables, imports, tags, setup steps, and teardown steps.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for creating or updating Robot Framework suites, resource files, user keywords, templates, tags, and test setup or cleanup.
Why use it?
It helps prevent syntax, version, import-scope, and keyword-selection errors in Robot Framework tests. It also explains how to run selected tests and use data-driven or Given/When/Then styles.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR} variable.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is Resource ../resources/calc.resource.

Part of the rf-agentskills plugin — 12 skills, 4 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit It is for creating or updating Robot Framework suites, resource files, user keywords, templates, tags, and test setup or cleanup.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/manykarim/robotframework-agentskills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/manykarim/robotframework-agentskills/rf-language

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rf-agentskills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 4 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,601 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 $0.00024 $0.05601
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.02240
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.01120
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00560

Measured 11d ago against content hash 3bf8020eb88d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rf-language 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (assets/examples/variables/common.py, scripts/rf_conventions.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

plugins/rf-agentskills/skills/rf-language/SKILL.md · 313 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 313 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Robot Framework Language

Write and review Robot Framework code in .robot and .resource files: test cases and suites, user keywords, resource files and variables, in modern syntax that fits the project's Robot Framework version. Python keyword libraries and listeners belong to rf-python-library; library keywords, locators and waits belong to the library skills (rf-browser, rf-requests, …). Verified against Robot Framework 7.4.2.

When to use

Load this skill first, before opening the .robot and .resource files or answering from memory, when Robot Framework test data is written, changed, reviewed or explained, even if the user just says "tests" or "keywords":

  • test cases and suites, user keywords and variables in .resource files, tags, setups and teardowns, __init__.robot suite files;
  • data-driven tests with a Test Template table; Given/When/Then (BDD) scenarios and their step keywords;
  • [Arguments] (optional, typed or embedded); replacing Force Tags, [Return], Run Keyword If or Set Suite Variable with current syntax;
  • selecting tests by tag on the robot command line;
  • Multiple keywords with name '...' and import scope between __init__.robot and child suites.

Not this skill: Python keyword libraries or listeners use rf-python-library; library keywords use rf-browser, rf-requests or another library skill.

Version gate

Establish the project's Robot Framework version once, before writing version-dependent syntax. Use rf.effective and rf.features from Step 0, or run this in the project (it exits 0; robot --version prints the version but exits 251):

uv run python -c "import robot; print(robot.__version__)"
Feature Min RF
RETURN 5.0
Test Tags, Keyword Tags, robot:private 6.0
--parseinclude, suite Name setting, JSON variable files, embedded + normal arguments in one user keyword 6.1
VAR, [Tags] -tag removal, --test matching the full name from the root suite 7.0
VAR … scope=SUITES, BDD prefix before a leading embedded argument 7.1
GROUP, (?i) in embedded patterns, templated test passes when some rows skip 7.2
Typed user keyword arguments ${count: int}, typed VAR, Variables section and FOR variables 7.3
Secret type 7.4

Read the full file on GitHub · 313 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. 11d ago Changed · -1 lines · -5 tokens per session 3bf8020eb88d
  2. 17d ago First seen · 314 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 1fc6eca410cb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

rf-language is a skill published in the GitHub repository manykarim/robotframework-agentskills (38 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 5,601 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-01.

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