sota

sota is a skill for Claude Code from martinholovsky/SOTA-skills. It costs 214 tokens per session (9,130 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC-BY-4.0.

A routing skill for choosing among engineering skills in the SOTA library. It is intended for software work that crosses multiple technical areas or does not clearly fit one specialized skill.

In plain words
What is it for?
Building, designing, implementing, refactoring, hardening, optimizing, reviewing, or auditing applications, services, and codebases.
Why use it?
It helps select an appropriate engineering workflow when a coding task involves several domains or the right skill is unclear.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the sota-skills plugin — 42 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Building, designing, implementing, refactoring, hardening, optimizing, reviewing, or auditing applications, services, and codebases.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/martinholovsky/sota-skills/sota
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 martinholovsky/SOTA-skills --skill sota
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/martinholovsky/SOTA-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sota-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 42 skills, 1 hook.

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.

agentmods badge for sota

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/martinholovsky/sota-skills/sota/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/martinholovsky/sota-skills/sota)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/martinholovsky/sota-skills/sota"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/martinholovsky/sota-skills/sota/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for sota

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/martinholovsky/sota-skills/sota"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/martinholovsky/sota-skills/sota.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 214 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 9,130 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 unknown 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 $0.00214 $0.09130
Opus 5 $0.00107 $0.04565
Sonnet 5 $0.00043 $0.01826
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00913

Measured yesterday against content hash 1dbd74e84ee0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sota 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/sota/SKILL.md · 411 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed CC-BY-4.0

The repository is licensed CC-BY-4.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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 Changed · +4 lines 1dbd74e84ee0
  2. 2d ago Changed · +7 lines 9fed68c632e5
  3. 3d ago Changed · +1 lines e6924f0c51be
  4. 7d ago Changed · -101 lines e4d1b8a789ee
  5. 7d ago Changed e09a7cee303b
  6. 11d ago First seen · 500 lines · 214 tokens per session scan A 113140eebd77

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sota is a skill published in the GitHub repository martinholovsky/SOTA-skills (19 stars, last pushed today), licensed CC-BY-4.0. It adds 214 tokens to every session and 9,130 once invoked, about $0.0011 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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