wicked-garden-core

wicked-garden-core is a skill for Claude Code from mikeparcewski/wicked-garden. It costs 180 tokens per session (2,540 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of setup and maintenance commands for the Wicked Garden plugin.

In plain words
What is it for?
Onboarding a codebase, installing related components, clearing selected saved state, viewing path information, getting help, and filing structured issue reports.
Why use it?
It gives the plugin one place for common tasks instead of requiring users to remember separate commands for setup, installation, resetting state, finding paths, and reporting issues.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the wicked-garden plugin — 148 skills, 5 commands, 1 agent, 13 hooks shipped together

Good fit Onboarding a codebase, installing related components, clearing selected saved state, viewing path information, getting help, and filing structured issue reports.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add mikeparcewski/wicked-garden
Claude Code
/plugin install wicked-garden

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install wicked-garden, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 148 skills, 5 commands, 1 agent, 13 hooks.

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Per session 180 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,540 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 $0.00180 $0.02540
Opus 5 $0.00090 $0.01270
Sonnet 5 $0.00036 $0.00508
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00254

Measured yesterday against content hash 7254636da5c7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wicked-garden-core 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.

skills/core/SKILL.md · 172 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 172 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Wicked Garden Core

One entry point for the plugin's utility verbs. Never fork this skill — the setup / install / reset / report-issue actions are interactive wizards that must converse with the user (AskUserQuestion, or plain-text STOP-and-wait in dangerous mode). Run everything inline in the parent context.

Action router

Action Trigger phrases / args How
help no args, "help", "overview" Default — show the overview below
setup "setup", "--reconfigure", "onboard this codebase" Read("${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/core/refs/setup.md") and follow it
install "install", "add peers", "install layers" Read("${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/core/refs/install.md") and follow it
reset "reset", "clear state", --all --only --keep --force --list-projects --all-projects Read("${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/core/refs/reset.md") and follow it
where-am-i "where am I", "path manifest", --fence --env Inline section below
report-issue "report issue", "file a bug", bug ux-friction unmet-outcome --list-unfiled Read("${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/core/refs/report-issue.md") and follow it

Action: help (default)

Show this overview when invoked with no action or asked for help.

The Wicked Garden Marketplace — gap-filling capabilities for modern coding-agent harnesses. It reads each prompt as one or more work-shape archetypes (v11) and applies the right rigor/gate, re-derives "done" from evidence, surfaces relationships grep can't see, and otherwise stays out of the harness's way.

Headline skills

Skill What it does
wicked-garden-prove Re-derive "done" from recorded evidence (the produces-gate). Its compile action emits a self-contained, vault-backed gate into any repo.
wicked-garden-core This skill — setup, install, reset, where-am-i, report-issue, help.
wicked-garden-deliberate Critically analyze a request before doing the work — challenge assumptions, find root causes, propose better approaches.
wicked-garden-smaht On-demand context assembly + session briefing; its intent action sets or inspects the active session intent.
wicked-garden-archetype The v11 work-shape playbooks (below).

Read the full file on GitHub · 172 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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 Changed · +1 lines 7254636da5c7
  2. 9d ago First seen · 171 lines · 180 tokens per session scan A 53f46f1f7ec4

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wicked-garden-core is a skill published in the GitHub repository mikeparcewski/wicked-garden (9 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 180 tokens to every session and 2,540 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-08-31.

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