use

use is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from melodic-software/claude-code-plugins. It costs 191 tokens per session (1,588 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A router for requests to make interactive, single-file HTML playgrounds—small pages with controls beside a live preview.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps turn playground-style requests into prompts for the upstream playground skill and provides the exact installation commands when needed.
Why use it?
It checks whether Anthropic’s official playground plugin is installed and tells you how to install it when it is missing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the playgrounds plugin — 1 skill shipped together

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/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins/use
Any agent
npx skills add melodic-software/claude-code-plugins --skill use
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install playgrounds, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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 use

README.md
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Per session 191 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,588 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 $0.00191 $0.01588
Opus 5 $0.00096 $0.00794
Sonnet 5 $0.00038 $0.00318
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00159

Measured yesterday against content hash 0d3395af5226, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

use 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.

plugins/playgrounds/skills/use/SKILL.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Use playgrounds

Purpose

Connect a playground-shaped request (an interactive parameter space the user wants to manipulate visually, with the result flowing back as a prompt) to the maintained first-party implementation: the playground skill from the playground plugin on the claude-plugins-official marketplace. This skill routes, installs, and advises. It never builds a playground itself.

Step 1: Presence check (provenance, not prose)

Determine whether the upstream plugin is installed by its identity, not its wording:

  • Run claude plugin list and look for the playground plugin sourced from claude-plugins-official. That marketplace-qualified install record is the authoritative signal.
  • Where the CLI is unavailable to the session, fall back to the session's skill listing: a bare playground skill whose description says it creates interactive HTML playgrounds. Treat the description comparison as ADVISORY only; upstream may reword it at any time, and a listing under budget pressure can drop descriptions entirely. Never conclude "absent" from wording alone when the name is present.
  • A local skill can shadow the upstream name. When the listed playground skill's description clearly describes something other than an interactive-explorer builder, say a shadow is likely, then let provenance decide: with the install record confirming playground@claude-plugins-official, warn about the shadow and invoke the namespaced playground:playground form (a bare-name shadow cannot intercept it); with no install record confirming it, take the install/guidance path, and never invoke the shadowing skill.

Step 2: Present, so invoke

When the upstream skill is present, invoke it via the Skill tool with the user's brief as arguments: the namespaced form playground:playground is the reliable address for a plugin skill; the bare playground form resolves only while no other skill carries that name. Pass the request as stated; the upstream skill owns template choice and generation. If the invocation is refused, do not retry blind: tell the user the skill is installed but this session could not invoke it, and suggest they run it themselves by asking for a playground in their own words.

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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 · 131 lines · 191 tokens per session scan A 0d3395af5226

Subscribe to this mod's changes

use is a skill published in the GitHub repository melodic-software/claude-code-plugins (14 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 191 tokens to every session and 1,588 once invoked, about $0.0010 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 2026-09-03.

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