carbon-lang

carbon-lang is a skill for Codex from OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development. It costs 46 tokens per session (1,643 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for evaluating Carbon, an experimental programming language intended as a possible successor to C++. It focuses on running its nightly toolchain, comparing it with C++, and testing how it works with existing C++ code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to evaluate Carbon in a C++ codebase, run its toolchain from a nightly build, compare migration choices, and investigate calling C++ from Carbon.
Why use it?
It helps teams assess Carbon's current readiness and limitations instead of treating an unfinished language as production-ready.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to evaluate Carbon in a C++ codebase, run its toolchain from a nightly build, compare migration choices, and investigate calling C++ from Carbon.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/outline-driven-development/carbon-lang
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 carbon-lang
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development

Made for: Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,643 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 $0.00046 $0.01643
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00822
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00329
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00164

Measured 2d ago against content hash 83e77f96d1e1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

carbon-lang 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 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.

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/carbon-lang/SKILL.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Carbon

Carbon is an experimental successor language to C++ from the carbon-language project. As of 2026-09-05 there is no 1.0 and no 0.1: the 0.1 milestone is the minimum language for evaluation, and the 2025 roadmap revision moved its earliest realistic date to the end of 2026 after memory-safety design was added to its scope. The only downloads are nightly toolchain tarballs tagged v0.0.0-0.nightly.YYYY.MM.DD, on limited platforms. Treat every finding below as dated to the nightly you ran.

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger A team with a large C++ code base asks whether to evaluate Carbon, wants to run the toolchain, wants to call C++ from Carbon, or asks how Carbon's safety model and readiness compare with C++.
Authority Reversible local: writes only the toolchain checkout or extracted nightly tarball, Carbon source files, and --output artifacts in the working directory; rollback is deleting them. No remote mutation.
Side effect A Bazel build of the toolchain compiles a pinned LLVM commit and takes substantial disk and time.
Done The evaluation report states the nightly date or commit used, what compiled and what did not, and a decision (evaluate further or stay on C++) tied to the constraints in step 7.

Inputs

  • The C++ code base under consideration and its constraints: stdlib and Boost dependence, template depth, platforms.
  • A toolchain source: a nightly tarball from the GitHub releases page, or a checkout of https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang with Clang 19 or newer, libc++-dev, libc++abi-dev, and lld installed. Bazel is pinned by .bazelversion (8.6.0 at grounding) and fetched by scripts/run_bazelisk.py; LLVM is pinned as an upstream commit through git_override in MODULE.bazel, not as a release number.
  • The evaluation question: syntax and ergonomics, C++ interop, or readiness.

Procedure

  1. Record the toolchain identity. From a nightly: extract the tarball, take the version from the carbon_toolchain-${VERSION} directory name, and run ./carbon_toolchain-${VERSION}/bin/carbon help. From source: ./scripts/run_bazelisk.py run //toolchain -- help builds and runs the driver (target //toolchain:carbon, alias //toolchain:toolchain); //toolchain/install:carbon_toolchain packages the tarball. Done when: the nightly tag or commit hash is written into the report.
  2. Compile the README example to prove the toolchain works:

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 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. 2d ago First seen · 69 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 83e77f96d1e1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

carbon-lang is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development (52 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 1,643 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 2026-09-06.

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