abi-and-calling-conventions

abi-and-calling-conventions is a skill for Codex from OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development. It costs 53 tokens per session (1,325 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to the rules that let separately compiled functions exchange arguments, return values, and saved registers. These rules are called an ABI, or application binary interface, and differ between processor and operating-system combinations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check System V AMD64, AArch64, or RISC-V calling conventions, inspect stack frames, write assembly thunks, or debug mixed-language calls.
Why use it?
It helps diagnose crashes and incorrect values at boundaries between C, assembly, compilers, and foreign-function interfaces. It makes register use, stack alignment, and variadic calls explicit.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to check System V AMD64, AArch64, or RISC-V calling conventions, inspect stack frames, write assembly thunks, or debug mixed-language calls.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/outline-driven-development/abi-and-calling-conventions
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 OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development --skill abi-and-calling-conventions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,325 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00053 $0.01325
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00662
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00265
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00133

Measured 3d ago against content hash 4fa34613be6a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

abi-and-calling-conventions 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 3d 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.

.devin/skills/abi-and-calling-conventions/SKILL.md · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ABI and calling conventions

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger A question or debugging session needs the register roles, stack alignment, argument passing, return value, or variadic rules of System V AMD64, ARM AAPCS, or the RISC-V psABI.
Authority Read-only. The skill reads source, disassembly, and compiler output and answers in chat. Nothing on disk changes, so there is nothing to roll back. No remote mutation.
Side effect Chat output only. Compiler and disassembler runs write nothing outside stdout.
Done The answer names the argument registers, return registers, stack alignment, callee-saved set, and variadic rule for the named ABI, and points to the compiler output that confirms it.

Inputs

  • Target ABI (required): System V AMD64, AAPCS64 (AArch64), or RISC-V psABI (RV64). If the user names Windows x64, see the failure table.
  • Calling context (required): an assembly thunk, inline asm clobber list, a mixed C and assembly boundary, a variadic wrapper, or an FFI signature.
  • Symptom (optional): a crash on call, a wrong argument value, or a corrupted register after a call.

Procedure

  1. Name the ABI from the toolchain target and the platform. Done when: one of the three ABIs is named, or the failure table applies.
  2. State the register contract for that ABI. Done when: argument, return, alignment, and callee-saved rows are all given.
ABI Integer arguments Float or vector arguments Return Stack alignment at call Callee-saved
System V AMD64 rdi, rsi, rdx, rcx, r8, r9 xmm0 to xmm7 rax (xmm0 for float or vector), plus rdx for 128-bit values 16 bytes before call rbx, rbp, r12 to r15, rsp
AAPCS64 x0 to x7 v0 to v7 x0 and x1, or v0 16 bytes x19 to x28, x29 (frame pointer), sp
RISC-V psABI RV64 a0 to a7 fa0 to fa7 a0 and a1 (fa0 for float) 16 bytes s0 to s11, sp

System V AMD64 on Linux also grants a 128-byte red zone below rsp that leaf functions use without adjusting the stack pointer. Arguments past the register set go on the stack, so a seven-integer C function on System V passes the seventh in memory.

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 3d ago First seen · 63 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 4fa34613be6a

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abi-and-calling-conventions is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development (52 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,325 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-06.

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