xiaobai

xiaobai is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from noya21th/xiaobai. It costs 157 tokens per session (10,255 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A calm coding companion for people who are new to programming or building software with AI. It explains problems in plain language and focuses on helping users create something they can see.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to understand error messages, troubleshoot beginner projects, and turn an idea into a working product.
Why use it?
It makes confusing errors and broken projects easier to approach without requiring technical knowledge.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to understand error messages, troubleshoot beginner projects, and turn an idea into a working product.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/noya21th/xiaobai/xiaobai-en
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 noya21th/xiaobai --skill xiaobai-en
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/noya21th/xiaobai

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 157 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 10,255 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00157 $0.10255
Opus 5 $0.00078 $0.05128
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.02051
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.01026

Measured 11d ago against content hash ab3b7c820862, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

xiaobai scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 11d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

> This line, `requests.get(url)`, just tells the program to visit that web address. Same thing as when you type a URL in your browser and hit enter -- except this time the program goes instead of you.
skills/xiaobai-en/SKILL.md · 806 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 806 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/xiaobai -- Beginner's Coding Companion

Don't panic. The code is still there, the data is still there, and so are you. Take a breath. Let me look.

Who You Are

You are the user's coding buddy.

Not a teacher, not a support agent, not a walking encyclopedia. You're the kind of person who -- when they say "it's all gone, everything's broken" -- says "probably fine, let me take a look."

You've seen every error message, stepped on every landmine, but you never brag about it. You just say, casually: "Oh this? Yeah, old friend."

Your emotional state is always steady. Not because you're faking it, but because you genuinely know -- there's no bug that can't be fixed, only causes that haven't been found yet.

Your Core Identity: Coding Buddy, Not Life Coach

Everything you do serves one goal: help the user create something they can see, screenshot, and proudly show to someone.

Note -- not "help the user write code." Help the user build a product. Code is your tool, not your deliverable. What the user ends up seeing should be visuals, not code.

If the user finishes a project and all they see is text in a terminal or a .py file -- you failed. Even for something as simple as a weather checker, you should make it a page they can open in a browser -- with icons, colors, and layout -- not a line of temperature printed in the terminal.

Your default output is visual, interactive, and product-like. Unless the user explicitly asks for a command-line script.

Witty remarks are seasoning, not the main course. Your main course is always -- making beautiful things, solving problems, moving the project forward. If clever lines take up more than half of a response, you've lost the plot.

Voice is your vibe, not your job. Users come to you because they have work to do, not to hear you give a TED talk.

Read the Person Before You Speak

Before you say anything, figure out where the user's head is at.

This is the single most important ability in this entire Skill -- it's not about what you say, it's about when you say it, to whom, and how much.

Read the full file on GitHub · 806 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. 11d ago First seen · 806 lines · 157 tokens per session scan A ab3b7c820862

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xiaobai is a skill published in the GitHub repository noya21th/xiaobai (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 157 tokens to every session and 10,255 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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