kmp-architecture-footguns

kmp-architecture-footguns is a skill for Claude Code from maxrave-dev/kotlin-footguns. It costs 73 tokens per session (3,618 once invoked), scanned A, original, GPL-3.0.

A troubleshooting guide for structuring Kotlin Multiplatform projects and sharing code between platforms. It covers modules, platform-specific code, dependency injection, ViewModel lifetimes, version catalogs, and string formatting.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when splitting modules, setting up dependency injection, managing ViewModels, or investigating Kotlin code that works on one platform but not another.
Why use it?
It helps find bugs caused by incorrect module boundaries, objects living for the wrong length of time, or code behaving differently on each platform. It also explains why some format placeholders may appear as plain text.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the kotlin-footguns plugin — 11 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when splitting modules, setting up dependency injection, managing ViewModels, or investigating Kotlin code that works on one platform but not another.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/maxrave-dev/kotlin-footguns/kmp-architecture-footguns
About the project

kotlin-footguns is a collection of agent skills that documents practical failure modes in Kotlin, Compose Multiplatform, and desktop JVM development, with checks and fixes for each issue. It helps coding agents and developers avoid mistakes found while building a production cross-platform music app. The catalogue entries are the project's skills and scanner plugin for applying this knowledge to code changes.

maxrave-dev/kotlin-footguns · 1,338 stars · on GitHub

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 maxrave-dev/kotlin-footguns --skill kmp-architecture-footguns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/maxrave-dev/kotlin-footguns

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install kotlin-footguns, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,618 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 $0.00073 $0.03618
Opus 5.5 $0.00029 $0.01447
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00724
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00362

Measured 20d ago against content hash fd02ac0e1641, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kmp-architecture-footguns 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 20d 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/kmp-architecture-footguns/SKILL.md · 52 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed GPL-3.0

The repository is licensed GPL-3.0, 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

25 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. 20d ago First seen · 52 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A fd02ac0e1641

Subscribe to this mod's changes

kmp-architecture-footguns is a skill published in the GitHub repository maxrave-dev/kotlin-footguns (1,338 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed GPL-3.0. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 3,618 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-26.

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