california-adu

california-adu is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mikeOnBreeze/cc-crossbeam. It costs 74 tokens per session (1,861 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to California state rules for accessory dwelling units and junior accessory dwelling units. An ADU is a smaller home on the same property as a main home; a JADU is a smaller unit created within a single-family home.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check state requirements for lot type, setbacks, height, size, parking, permits, fees, and ownership.
Why use it?
It helps determine the statewide requirements for building and approving these units, while separating state rules from local city or county rules.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it to check state requirements for lot type, setbacks, height, size, parking, permits, fees, and ownership.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mikeonbreeze/cc-crossbeam/california-adu
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 mikeOnBreeze/cc-crossbeam --skill california-adu
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mikeOnBreeze/cc-crossbeam

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,861 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 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 5.1 $0.00074 $0.01861
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00931
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00372
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00186

Measured 12d ago against content hash 2b9451de83d1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

california-adu 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 12d 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.

adu-skill-development/skill/california-adu/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.

California ADU Regulatory Decision Engine

This skill contains the California state-level ADU (Accessory Dwelling Unit) and JADU (Junior Accessory Dwelling Unit) rules extracted from the HCD ADU Handbook (January 2025) and the January 2026 Addendum. It covers Government Code §§ 66310-66342 (including new §§ 66311.5, 66333.5) as amended through January 1, 2026.

What this covers: State law — the floor that cities cannot go below. Cities may be more permissive but cannot impose standards more restrictive than what is stated here.

What this does NOT cover: City/county-specific ordinances, federal requirements (FHA, ADA), or project-specific engineering.

How to Use This Skill

When answering an ADU question, follow the 4-step decision tree below. Each step tells you which reference files to load. Load only what you need — most questions require 3-5 reference files, not all 28.

After loading references, check the Quick-Reference Thresholds table below for the key numbers that come up in almost every query.


Decision Tree Router

STEP 1: Classify the Lot Type

What kind of lot is the ADU proposed on?

Lot Type Load These References
Single-family lot unit-types-66323.md, unit-types-adu-general.md
Multifamily lot (2+ existing units) unit-types-multifamily.md, unit-types-66323.md
JADU only (within existing/proposed single-family dwelling) unit-types-jadu.md
Unsure / mixed question unit-types-66323.md (start here — it has the combinations table)

STEP 2: Classify the ADU Construction Type

How is the ADU being built?

Construction Type Load These References
New detached construction standards-height.md, standards-size.md, standards-setbacks.md
Conversion from existing space (garage, basement, etc.) standards-size.md, zoning-nonconforming.md
Attached addition to existing dwelling standards-height.md, standards-size.md, standards-setbacks.md
Manufactured/factory-built home special-manufactured.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 lines

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. 12d ago First seen · 131 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 2b9451de83d1

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california-adu is a skill published in the GitHub repository mikeOnBreeze/cc-crossbeam (291 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 1,861 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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