conan-vcpkg

conan-vcpkg is a skill for Codex from OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development. It costs 48 tokens per session (1,895 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to adding C and C++ libraries with Conan or vcpkg, two tools that download and manage third-party code. It also covers connecting those libraries to CMake, a build-system generator.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add dependencies, write Conan or vcpkg configuration, handle static or shared libraries and cross-compilation settings, and diagnose failed dependency resolution or builds.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of finding compatible library versions, choosing a package manager, and configuring builds across different compilers or platforms.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is ./vcpkg/bootstrap-vcpkg.sh # Linux/macOS; .bat on Windows.

Good fit Use it to add dependencies, write Conan or vcpkg configuration, handle static or shared libraries and cross-compilation settings, and diagnose failed dependency resolution or builds.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/outline-driven-development/conan-vcpkg

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,895 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. 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 $0.00048 $0.01895
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00948
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00379
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00189

Measured 3d ago against content hash 204e5b7505f3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

conan-vcpkg 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 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

"curl",
.devin/skills/conan-vcpkg/SKILL.md · 196 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 196 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Conan and vcpkg

C/C++ dependency management with Conan and vcpkg. Grounded against Conan 2.32.0 and vcpkg 2026.07.29.

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger The task adds a third-party C/C++ library, writes conanfile.txt/conanfile.py or vcpkg.json, integrates a package manager with CMake, manages binary compatibility, or picks between Conan and vcpkg.
Authority Reversible local: writes only conanfile.*, vcpkg.json, profiles, triplets, overlay ports, and the local package caches; rollback is version control plus clearing the cache. No remote mutation.
Side effect Package installs download sources or binaries into the local Conan or vcpkg cache; conan upload pushes to a remote and requires an explicit user request.
Done The declared dependencies resolve and the project configures and builds against them, or the failing command is reported.

Inputs

  • Dependency list (required): library names; versions come from ConanCenter or the vcpkg registry.
  • Build system (required): CMake integration is assumed below.
  • Platform constraints (optional): cross-compilation target, static vs shared linkage, MSVC vs GCC/Clang.
  • Private remote (optional): an Artifactory or Conan remote URL supplied by the user.

Procedure

  1. Pick the package manager. Done when: one tool is chosen with a stated reason.
Situation Pick
MSVC-first Windows team vcpkg: tighter MSVC and Visual Studio integration
Prebuilt binaries in CI, no source builds Conan: binary package cache and package IDs
Cross-compilation profiles Conan: host/build profile split
Exact version pinning per package Conan: explicit version references
Fast setup for a small project vcpkg manifest mode
Open-source project with broad audience vcpkg: lower barrier for contributors
  1. Set up vcpkg in manifest mode. Done when: vcpkg.json exists and CMake configures with the vcpkg toolchain file.
git clone https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg.git
./vcpkg/bootstrap-vcpkg.sh     # Linux/macOS; .bat on Windows

Read the full file on GitHub · 196 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. 3d ago First seen · 196 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 204e5b7505f3

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conan-vcpkg is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development (52 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 1,895 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-06.

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