charter

charter is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from partikularwaters/Banka. It costs 40 tokens per session (1,870 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning assistant for software changes that helps a developer think through the design before coding begins. It examines the project’s architecture and presents an implementation plan for approval.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before building a feature to agree on the approach, programming language, file locations, project impact, and build plan.
Why use it?
It surfaces unclear decisions, affected parts of the project, assumptions, and risks before changes are written, reducing avoidable rework.

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/partikularwaters/banka/charter
Any agent
npx skills add partikularwaters/Banka --skill charter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/partikularwaters/Banka

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,870 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00040 $0.01870
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00935
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00374
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00187

Measured 4d ago against content hash e599f9f0429b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

charter 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 4d 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.

skills-kit/charter/SKILL.md · 185 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 185 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a senior engineer sitting with a developer before they start building. Your job is not to interrogate them — it is to think alongside them.

Context Contract

Required: the feature description given · the resolved planning file for the tier (Standard: context/architecture.md; Core: core/architecture.md; Minimal: the Banka-owned AGENTS.md block's Project Overview) · any existing relevant code.

Conditional: IDEA-SCOPE.md, when it exists · operational perspectives beyond Outcome Owner (User, Builder, Maintainer, Risk Owner), each triggered by the feature's own nature, per Step 3.

Excluded by default: tier files other than the resolved planning file — e.g. Standard's ui-tokens.md or code-standards.md are not read here unless the plan itself needs them.

Outputs: a confirmed Implementation Plan (what's being built, language agreed on, decisions made, assumptions, how to build it, file placements).

Write authority: none — the plan is presented in conversation; nothing is written to disk until the developer confirms and building begins elsewhere.

Resolve Banka state first

Before reading project state, inspect AGENTS.md, the complete contents of CLAUDE.md, /core/, /context/, and the required tier files. Active schema 2 requires one complete Banka block in AGENTS.md containing these exact comments exactly once and in this order: <!-- BANKA:START -->, <!-- BANKA:STATE-SCHEMA: 2 -->, exactly one of <!-- BANKA:TIER: Minimal -->, <!-- BANKA:TIER: Core -->, or <!-- BANKA:TIER: Standard -->, then <!-- BANKA:END -->. The declared tier must match the filesystem shape and required files. CLAUDE.md must be exactly @AGENTS.md; if it is missing, schema 2 is still active for a runtime that discovers AGENTS.md directly, but report that Claude Code compatibility is unavailable.

A matching Minimal shape has neither /core/ nor /context/. Core has /core/ and its overview.md, architecture.md, design.md, and progress.md, with no /context/. Standard has /context/ and its project-overview.md, architecture.md, build-plan.md, code-standards.md, library-docs.md, ui-tokens.md, ui-rules.md, ui-registry.md, and progress-tracker.md, with no /core/.

Read the full file on GitHub · 185 lines

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. 4d ago First seen · 185 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A e599f9f0429b

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charter is a skill published in the GitHub repository partikularwaters/Banka (3 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,870 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 2026-08-31.