develop_extension

A complete guide for creating an OpenBB Platform extension from an empty project. An extension adds new functionality to the OpenBB finance platform.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building and checking a new OpenBB Platform extension.
Why use it?
It gives you an ordered path through scaffolding, implementation, installation, and verification.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/openbb-finance/openbb/develop_extension
Any agent
npx skills add OpenBB-finance/OpenBB --skill develop_extension
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBB

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,684 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00053 $0.04684
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.02342
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00937
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00468

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8b7fa8d4449b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

develop_extension 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 2d 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.

All `requests.get`/`requests.post` keyword arguments are passed through.
openbb_platform/extensions/mcp_server/openbb_mcp_server/skills/develop_extension/SKILL.md · 618 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 2d ago First seen · 618 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 8b7fa8d4449b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

develop_extension is a skill published in the GitHub repository OpenBB-finance/OpenBB (72,584 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 4,684 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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