phx-boundaries

phx-boundaries is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,113 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of boundaries, MIT.

A Phoenix architecture checker that examines how application contexts and modules depend on one another. It uses module-reference analysis to find coupling, cycles, and boundary violations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before splitting modules, when reviewing architecture, or when checking cross-context calls and dependency cycles.
Why use it?
It helps reveal when parts of a Phoenix application are too dependent on each other or are crossing intended context boundaries.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it before splitting modules, when reviewing architecture, or when checking cross-context calls and dependency cycles.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix/phx-boundaries
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 oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix --skill phx-boundaries
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,113 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 91% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00035 $0.01113
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00557
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00223
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00111

Measured 6d ago against content hash a6bd642aae7b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

phx-boundaries 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 6d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

91% identical to boundaries — 25 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

targets/amp/skills/phx-boundaries/SKILL.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Phoenix Context Boundary Validation

Analyze module dependencies to ensure clean context separation and proper architectural boundaries.

Usage

phx-boundaries              # Check for violations
phx-boundaries --assess     # Score context health (0-100)
phx-boundaries --fix        # Suggest fixes for violations

--assess Mode: Context Health Score

Evaluate overall boundary health with a quantified score.

Metrics Calculated

Metric Healthy Range Red Flag Weight
Modules per context 3-15 >20 or <2 20%
Public API surface 5-30 funcs >40 funcs 15%
Fan-out (contexts called) 1-4 >6 20%
Fan-in (called by contexts) 1-6 >10 15%
Circular dependencies 0 >0 15%
Boundary violations 0 >0 15%

Commands for Assessment

Use Glob to count .ex files per context directory under lib/my_app/*/. Use Grep to count public function definitions per context file under lib/my_app/*.ex. Run mix xref graph --format stats for dependency analysis. Run mix xref graph --format cycles --label compile for compile-time circular dependencies.

Output Format

## Context Health Assessment

### Overall Score: 82/100 (Good)

| Context | Modules | API | Fan-Out | Fan-In | Score |
|---------|---------|-----|---------|--------|-------|
| Accounts | 5 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 95 |
| Orders | 18 | 45 | 8 | 3 | 62 |
| Shared | 2 | 8 | 0 | 12 | 78 |

### Issues Found

1. **Orders** - Too large (18 modules, 45 funcs)
   - Consider: Extract Fulfillment, Invoicing sub-contexts

2. **Orders** - High fan-out (8 contexts)
   - Consider: Review if all dependencies necessary

### Recommendations

- Split Orders into Orders + Fulfillment
- Review Accounts ← Billing dependency

Iron Laws - Never Violate These

  1. Controllers call only contexts - No direct Repo access from web layer
  2. Schemas are pure data - No side effects, no Repo calls in schema modules
  3. Contexts own their schemas - Don't import schemas from other contexts
  4. Explicit dependencies only - Cross-context calls must be intentional
  5. DO NOT refactor context boundaries without running mix xref first — Refactoring without dependency data creates new violations; always map the dependency graph before moving modules

Read the full file on GitHub · 138 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 6d ago First seen · 138 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A a6bd642aae7b

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phx-boundaries is a skill published in the GitHub repository oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix (542 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,113 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to boundaries, differing in 25 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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