neva: Skill for Codex

.codex/skills/neva-language/SKILL.md

neva-language is a skill for Codex from nevalang/neva. It costs 23 tokens per session (261 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for working with Neva source code and code examples. Neva is the programming language used by the Neva project, and the instructions cover authoring, refactoring, debugging, review, and validation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating, changing, debugging, reviewing, or documenting files written in Neva.
Why use it?
It helps an agent follow the project's language rules and check that Neva code remains valid. It also guides the agent to consult the language's documentation and parser when syntax is unclear.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: installed under .codex/.

This is nevalang/neva's own configuration. It tells Codex how to work on neva itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything neva configures →

About the project

Neva is a statically typed programming language in which programs are message-passing graphs: nodes exchange data through ports and run concurrently by default. It is for developers building compiled programs with dataflow control, visual editing, and interoperability with Go. The catalogue includes skills and instructions for working with Neva.

nevalang/neva · 1,079 stars · on GitHub · nevalang.org

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to nevalang/neva. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nevalang/neva/main/.codex/skills/neva-language/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nevalang/neva

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 261 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 $0.00023 $0.00261
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00130
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00052
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00026

Measured 5d ago against content hash d8e999e5ef6f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

neva-language 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 5d 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.

.codex/skills/neva-language/SKILL.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

Neva Language

Use this skill for changes touching *.neva or Neva code snippets.

CLI Discovery

  • Use neva --help to list commands and global options.
  • Use neva <command> --help before relying on a command's flags or argument contract.
  • During repository development, run go run ./cmd/neva --help or go run ./cmd/neva <command> --help when a local binary is unavailable.
  • neva doc [package/path] [.] <pattern> searches the bundled standard library; use it to discover existing components before adding one.

Rules

  • Read docs/user/style_guide.md before editing.
  • Keep edited .neva files syntactically valid.
  • If syntax is uncertain, consult internal/compiler/parser/neva.g4 and nearby .neva examples before editing.
  • When feasible, validate changed Neva programs by compiling or running them.
  • When editing documentation or snippets, prefer a quick local compile/run check of an equivalent minimal example.
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. 5d ago First seen · 29 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A d8e999e5ef6f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

neva-language is a skill published in the GitHub repository nevalang/neva (1,079 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 261 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-01.

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