development-contract-repo-overlay-template

development-contract-repo-overlay-template is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from n-n-code/n-n-code-skills. It costs 71 tokens per session (921 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A template for writing a small set of repository-specific instructions for a development contract system, a workflow that tracks planned changes and checks their evidence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or revise the repository overlay and check that it names the correct policy file, plan folder, checker, lifecycle helper, and validation profiles.
Why use it?
It helps keep local instructions aligned with the repository’s policy, folders, commands, and validation rules instead of relying on guesses.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to create or revise the repository overlay and check that it names the correct policy file, plan folder, checker, lifecycle helper, and validation profiles.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/n-n-code/n-n-code-skills/development-contract-repo-overlay-template
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add n-n-code/n-n-code-skills --skill development-contract-repo-overlay-template
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/n-n-code/n-n-code-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 921 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 $0.00071 $0.00921
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00461
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00184
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00092

Measured 4d ago against content hash 019b9e6e3c5c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

development-contract-repo-overlay-template 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 4d 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.

.agents/skills/development-contract-repo-overlay-template/SKILL.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Development Contract Repo Overlay Template

This skill documents the expected shape of the repo-local overlay that a target repository should have after adopting the development contract system. It is not guidance for this skills repository itself, which only stores the reusable skills.

Use target policy as the source for contract mechanics within the host's instruction hierarchy. Keep an unresolved policy/documentation conflict visible; do not decide it merely by preferring whichever file was opened first.

Use this skill when

  • authoring or revising the repo-local overlay generated for a target repository
  • checking that overlay guidance matches the target repo's policy file, checker command, lifecycle helper, plan directory, and validation profiles
  • deciding which repo-specific literals belong in the overlay versus the policy file

Do not use this skill as the primary process for ordinary implementation work inside a target repo. For that, use development-contract-process plus the target repo's actual local overlay and implementation skill.

Repo overlay workflow

  1. Select findings, draft, or apply from the request. Findings and conversation drafts do not authorize repository writes.
  2. Read existing overlays and the policy, checker, helper, and profile definitions that establish the target's actual commands and paths.
  3. Write only the overlay's local bindings and exceptional human guidance. Refer to development-contract-process when it is available to the target agent; otherwise include the minimum operator steps needed to use the repo's system.
  4. During authorized application, follow the target's existing contract process if changing the overlay is itself substantive. Do not require an unrelated implementation or record update merely to produce a draft.
  5. Check the overlay against the real files and safe checker modes. Report observed commands separately from proposed or unrun commands.

Decision rules

  • Treat the target repo's policy file as the source of truth for what is substantive in that repo.
  • Do not leave a substantive change without a non-template plan update.
  • Use the repo's lifecycle helper with its supersede option when superseding a record so the replacement link is updated with the move.
  • Keep the repo overlay thin: change policy data first, then only add prose when the repo needs extra human guidance that policy cannot express.
  • Resolve policy/documentation mismatches from evidence within authorized scope; report unresolved decisions rather than silently changing policy.

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 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. 4d ago Changed · +2 lines 019b9e6e3c5c
  2. 9d ago First seen · 89 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 14bbdb33b30d

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development-contract-repo-overlay-template is a skill published in the GitHub repository n-n-code/n-n-code-skills (4 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 921 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 2026-08-31.

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