scaffold

scaffold is a skill for Claude Code from mikeparcewski/wicked-garden. It costs 61 tokens per session (2,182 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A scaffolding tool for generating the file structure for wicked-garden skills, worker skills, actions, and hooks. Scaffolding means creating the standard starter files and folders for a new component.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating a domain skill, a context-fork worker, action guidance, or a hook with Python scripts.
Why use it?
It avoids hand-writing boilerplate and helps new components pass the plugin’s validation checks from the start.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

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 Use it when creating a domain skill, a context-fork worker, action guidance, or a hook with Python scripts.

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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 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,182 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00061 $0.02182
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01091
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00436
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00218

Measured 11d ago against content hash adfa56cc41b4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

scaffold scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/scaffold.py, templates/hook/script.py, tests/test_scaffold.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

if 'rm -rf /' in command:
.claude/skills/scaffolding/SKILL.md · 314 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 314 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scaffold Tool

Quick-start generator for wicked-garden components. The plugin is skills-only: the former commands/ and agents/ trees were absorbed into skills/, so this tool scaffolds skills, workers, and hooks — never a commands/ or agents/ file.

Purpose

Generates production-ready component structures within the unified plugin:

  • Skills — a sub-skill skills/{domain}/{name}/SKILL.md (Tier-2 navigation + refs/)
  • Worker skills — a standalone context: fork worker skills/{domain}-{role}/SKILL.md (the former "agent"), dispatched via Skill(skill="wicked-garden-{domain}-{role}")
  • Hooks — hooks.json entries with Python scripts

Former commands are now actions of the consolidated per-domain router skill (skills/{domain}/SKILL.md); the command subcommand is retired and only prints guidance for adding an action.

All scaffolded components pass validation immediately.

Usage

Interactive Mode

python .claude/skills/scaffolding/scripts/scaffold.py

# Interactive prompts:
# > Component type? (1 skill / 2 worker / 3 action-guidance / 4 hook)
# > Domain? (crew, engineering, platform, ...)
# > Name? (kebab-case)
# > Description?

# Result (skill):
# Skill created: skills/crew/my-skill/
# Skill id: my-skill (routed by the crew domain skill)

Command Line Mode

# Skill (a sub-skill under a domain)
python .claude/skills/scaffolding/scripts/scaffold.py skill \
  --name my-skill \
  --domain crew \
  --description "What this skill does" \
  --use-when "trigger conditions"

# Worker skill (context:fork — the former agent). `agent` is a back-compat alias.
python .claude/skills/scaffolding/scripts/scaffold.py worker \
  --name my-worker \
  --domain platform \
  --description "What this worker does" \
  --tools "Read,Write,Bash"

# Action (former command) — RETIRED. Prints guidance to add the action to the
# domain router skill; writes no file.
python .claude/skills/scaffolding/scripts/scaffold.py command \
  --name my-action \
  --domain engineering \
  --description "What this action does"

# Hook
python .claude/skills/scaffolding/scripts/scaffold.py hook \
  --event PreToolUse \
  --script validate-tool-use \
  --description "Validates tool usage"

Read the full file on GitHub · 314 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. 11d ago First seen · 314 lines · 61 tokens per session scan C adfa56cc41b4

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scaffold is a skill published in the GitHub repository mikeparcewski/wicked-garden (9 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 2,182 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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