atproto-publish-lexicon

atproto-publish-lexicon is a skill for Claude Code from ngerakines/atproto-skills. It costs 387 tokens per session (3,372 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for publishing an AT Protocol lexicon as a network record. An AT Protocol lexicon is a published schema that describes the data and operations an application can use.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to publish or resolve lexicons, check an existing publication, and manage revisions or breaking schema changes.
Why use it?
It explains how to make a validated schema resolvable by its identifier and how to diagnose authority or record-location problems.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the atproto-skills plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to publish or resolve lexicons, check an existing publication, and manage revisions or breaking schema changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ngerakines/atproto-skills/atproto-publish-lexicon
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.

Any agent
npx skills add ngerakines/atproto-skills --skill atproto-publish-lexicon
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ngerakines/atproto-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install atproto-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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Per session 387 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,372 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 $0.00387 $0.03372
Opus 5 $0.00193 $0.01686
Sonnet 5 $0.00077 $0.00674
Haiku 4.5 $0.00039 $0.00337

Measured 12d ago against content hash fa67ab6e0411, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

atproto-publish-lexicon 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 12d 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.

skills/atproto-publish-lexicon/SKILL.md · 191 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 191 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AT Protocol Lexicon Publication

A lexicon isn't published until it's a record. This skill covers the protocol-level workflow that takes a validated lexicon JSON document, wraps it as a com.atproto.lexicon.schema record, writes it to the authoring DID's repo, and makes it resolvable by NSID. The inverse — consumers resolving an NSID back to a lexicon — is the other half.

Authoring the JSON document itself is the sibling skill atproto-lexicon's job. This skill starts the moment you're ready to put that document on the network.

When to use

  • The user is publishing a new lexicon or a revision to an existing one (putRecord / createRecord on com.atproto.lexicon.schema).
  • The user is debugging why their published lexicon doesn't resolve — authority mismatch, missing _lexicon. TXT, wrong rkey.
  • The user is consuming a lexicon by NSID at runtime and wants to understand the resolution chain (NSID → authority → DNS → DID → PDS → record).
  • The user is planning a breaking change and needs to know how revision and the authority model interact.

What this skill provides

  • A publish pipeline: form the record, validate, check authority, diff against any prior revision, compute the CID, publish, verify.
  • The com.atproto.lexicon.schema record shape — what's top-level, what id must equal, what lexicon: 1 means.
  • The resolution flow for consumers: reverse-DNS the NSID, look up _lexicon.<authority> TXT, resolve the DID, fetch the record.
  • The authority model: who's allowed to publish under which NSID prefix, and why the PDS doesn't enforce it.
  • Revision discipline: monotonic integers, no semver, how to gate breaking changes.

Detail lives in references/; this file is the procedure.

Procedure

Follow these steps in order. Skipping authority or compatibility checks is how lexicons ship broken.

  1. Form the record. A com.atproto.lexicon.schema record is the lexicon document with a $type stamped on top. Top-level fields:
    • $type: com.atproto.lexicon.schema (required)
    • lexicon: 1 — the lexicon language version, fixed at 1 today (not a semver of your doc)
    • id: the NSID, e.g. com.example.foo.getBarMUST equal the rkey you'll publish under
    • revision: optional integer; omit for the first publish, bump monotonically thereafter
    • description: optional top-level string
    • defs: the map of definition names to def objects (main, plus any secondary defs)

Read the full file on GitHub · 191 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. 12d ago First seen · 191 lines · 387 tokens per session scan A fa67ab6e0411

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atproto-publish-lexicon is a skill published in the GitHub repository ngerakines/atproto-skills (50 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 387 tokens to every session and 3,372 once invoked, about $0.0019 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 2026-08-30.

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