bash-defensive-patterns

bash-defensive-patterns is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Microck/ordinary-claude-skills. It costs 36 tokens per session (3,205 once invoked), scanned C, original, no licence file.

A guide to writing Bash scripts defensively so they handle failures safely and reliably in production, CI/CD pipelines, and system utilities.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating robust shell scripts, deployment and CI/CD automation, or system tools that need fault tolerance and safety.
Why use it?
It helps reduce unexpected script failures and unsafe behaviour when commands, files, or external systems do not behave as expected.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it when creating robust shell scripts, deployment and CI/CD automation, or system tools that need fault tolerance and safety.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/microck/ordinary-claude-skills/bash-defensive-patterns
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 Microck/ordinary-claude-skills --skill bash-defensive-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Microck/ordinary-claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,205 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 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 $0.00036 $0.03205
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01603
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00641
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00320

Measured 8d ago against content hash 2d999e911d49, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

bash-defensive-patterns scanned grade C with 2 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 8d 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

trap 'echo "Cleaning up..."; rm -rf "$TMPDIR"' EXIT

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

local -a required=("jq" "curl" "git")
skills_all/bash-defensive-patterns/SKILL.md · 534 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 8d ago First seen · 534 lines · 36 tokens per session scan C 2d999e911d49

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bash-defensive-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository Microck/ordinary-claude-skills (393 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 3,205 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (recursive force delete, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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