project-core-dev

A repository-specific guide for finding the checks that prove a routine code change is complete. It helps when the project’s own validation steps are unclear.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read the repository’s instructions and identify the required commands, checks, and reporting details for a small project-owned change.
Why use it?
It prevents developers from guessing which tests or checks to run. It also avoids running unrelated checks or changing the environment just to satisfy a checklist.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/n-n-code/n-n-code-skills/project-core-dev
Any agent
npx skills add n-n-code/n-n-code-skills --skill project-core-dev
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/n-n-code/n-n-code-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 313 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00043 $0.00313
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00156
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00063
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00031

Measured 2d ago against content hash 55870902dbbb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-core-dev 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 2d 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/project-core-dev/SKILL.md · 36 lines

What it actually says

Project Core Dev

This is a thin project overlay, not a standalone implementation workflow. Use it with matching implementation guidance only when repository-specific checks or gaps remain unclear. Omit it when another selected skill plus repo context already supplies exact commands and reporting obligations.

When to use

The task is a routine repo-owned change whose completion path is not yet concrete.

Not for

Use project-config-and-tests, project-platform-diagnose, project-release-maintainer, or project-vendor-boundary when that specialized concern leads. Do not use this skill to restate a generic validation checklist.

Completion Workflow

  1. Read the applicable repository instructions, README, CI configuration, contributor docs, and presets. Identify authoritative commands and mandatory gates; do not invent a second workflow.
  2. Map the touched surface to the narrowest honest repo-defined proof. Do not run broad checks merely because they exist.
  3. Execute within the task's authority. Prefer check modes for read-only work; do not install tools, start services, or mutate the environment just to close a checklist.
  4. Report exact commands, outcomes, gaps, and the narrowest next command that would close each material gap without implying it passed.
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. 2d ago First seen · 36 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 55870902dbbb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

project-core-dev is a skill published in the GitHub repository n-n-code/n-n-code-skills (4 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 313 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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