sota-llm-engineering

sota-llm-engineering is a skill for Claude Code from martinholovsky/SOTA-skills. It costs 231 tokens per session (2,945 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC-BY-4.0.

Engineering guidance for building and reviewing software features that use large language models, such as chatbots, RAG systems, agents, and structured data extraction.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating, changing, or auditing an LLM-powered feature or application.
Why use it?
It helps handle the design and review problems that arise when an application sends requests to a language model.

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 Use it when creating, changing, or auditing an LLM-powered feature or application.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/martinholovsky/sota-skills/sota-llm-engineering
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-llm-engineering
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

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README.md
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Per session 231 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,945 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 $0.00231 $0.02945
Opus 5 $0.00115 $0.01473
Sonnet 5 $0.00046 $0.00589
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00295

Measured 2d ago against content hash e3b459af9ce6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sota-llm-engineering 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.

skills/sota-llm-engineering/SKILL.md · 151 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

6 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. 2d ago Changed · +4 tokens per session e3b459af9ce6
  2. 7d ago Changed 44998239d948
  3. 11d ago First seen · 151 lines · 227 tokens per session scan A fa26022a1f57

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sota-llm-engineering is a skill published in the GitHub repository martinholovsky/SOTA-skills (19 stars, last pushed today), licensed CC-BY-4.0. It adds 231 tokens to every session and 2,945 once invoked, about $0.0012 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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