mk:development

mk:development is a skill for Claude Code from ngocsangyem/MeowKit. It costs 42 tokens per session (494 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coding guidance toolkit covering implementation patterns, project organization, loading other skills, and optional test-first development. TDD, or test-driven development, means writing a failing test before the code that makes it pass.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it while building features or fixing code, especially when you need coding patterns, architecture guidance, skill-loading rules, or TDD instructions.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents shared implementation standards while allowing teams to choose whether strict test-first rules apply.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it while building features or fixing code, especially when you need coding patterns, architecture guidance, skill-loading rules, or TDD instructions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ngocsangyem/meowkit/development
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 ngocsangyem/MeowKit --skill development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ngocsangyem/MeowKit

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for mk:development

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 494 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 $0.00042 $0.00494
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00247
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00099
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00049

Measured 7d ago against content hash d357c8b230bc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mk:development 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 7d 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.

.claude/skills/development/SKILL.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

Development Toolkit

Reference guides for implementation: code patterns, TDD enforcement (opt-in), and skill lazy-loading.

When to Use

  • During Phase 3 (Build) for implementation guidance
  • When the developer agent needs coding pattern references
  • For TDD enforcement rules during red/green/refactor cycle (TDD mode only)

Workflow Integration

Operates in Phase 2 (Test) and Phase 3 (Build). Output supports the developer and tester agents.

TDD enforcement (tdd-enforcement.md reference) is OPT-IN as of the TDD-optional migration. Default mode skips RED-phase enforcement; enable with --tdd or MEOWKIT_TDD=1.

References

Reference When to load Content
code-patterns.md During implementation Coding patterns, architecture patterns, file organization
tdd-enforcement.md Phase 2-3 RED/GREEN/REFACTOR cycle, test-first rules, coverage requirements
skill-loader.md Skill activation How to load skills on-demand, lazy loading patterns

Gotchas

  • TDD enforcement blocking exploratory prototyping: Strict red-green cycle slows rapid iteration → Default mode (TDD off) is now the right choice for prototypes; opt into --tdd only when shipping production-quality work
  • 200-line file rule on generated code: Auto-generated files (migrations, schemas) exceed limit by design → Exempt generated files explicitly in plan constraints
Files

What ships with it

3 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. 7d ago First seen · 46 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A d357c8b230bc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mk:development is a skill published in the GitHub repository ngocsangyem/MeowKit (14 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 494 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 2026-09-03.