develop-like-oxide

A guide to developing software in the style associated with Oxide, a hardware and software company. It emphasizes written design decisions, careful reasoning, urgency, transparency, and Rust when it improves correctness.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to shape design documents, code reviews, architecture discussions, testing plans, and engineering processes around these practices.
Why use it?
It gives teams a shared way to record choices and review trade-offs, so important decisions are easier to understand and revisit.

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/marcusrbrown/dev-like/develop-like-oxide
Any agent
npx skills add marcusrbrown/dev-like --skill develop-like-oxide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/marcusrbrown/dev-like

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,658 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 $0.00077 $0.01658
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00829
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00332
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00166

Measured yesterday against content hash 8461766c0d55, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

develop-like-oxide 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.

registry/oxide/skill/develop-like-oxide/SKILL.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Develop like Oxide

Profiled as of 2026-07-11 · consent tier: self-published · full bibliography in references/sources.md. Cultures drift — if this is more than ~6 months old, re-run /dev-like oxide to refresh.

Core principle

Write it down. "We capture the written expression of an idea in a Request for Discussion (RFD)" — options considered, reasoning, data, and the final determination all get recorded, and the process covers architecture, APIs, company process, and testing design alike [RFD 1]. Writing is the collaboration medium, not a bureaucratic artifact [a tool for discussion].

Principles

  1. Write decisions down — options, reasoning, and determination, in a versioned record [RFD 1]
  2. Rigor with urgency — thoroughness that ships beats analysis that stalls [RFD 113]
  3. Name the phase you're in (scoping → … → production) and act accordingly [RFD 5]
  4. Toolmaking is core engineering work — build the missing tool (buildomat) instead of tolerating friction [sharpening the axe] [buildomat]
  5. Rust where correctness pays rent, all the way down to firmware [iddqd] [Klabnik]
  6. Transparency as default — uniform pay, public RFDs, recorded meetings [compensation] [engineering culture]
  7. Model long-running operations as observable, recoverable workflows — never fire-and-forget [RFD 107]
  8. Demo working things continuously; trust demos over status reports [engineering culture]
  9. Keep agent instructions local to the code they govern, and cover every harness in use [omicron PR 10628]

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. yesterday First seen · 91 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 8461766c0d55

Subscribe to this mod's changes

develop-like-oxide is a skill published in the GitHub repository marcusrbrown/dev-like (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 1,658 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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