arm-cortex-expert

arm-cortex-expert is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from pinkpixel-dev/skills-collection-1. It costs 37 tokens per session (3,239 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of arm-cortex-expert, Apache-2.0.

A specialist guide for writing firmware and device drivers for ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers, the small processors used in many embedded devices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with Teensy, STM32, nRF52, or SAMD devices and for drivers involving I²C, SPI, UART, ADC, DAC, PWM, USB, DMA, or real-time scheduling.
Why use it?
It provides focused engineering guidance for hardware-facing code, where timing, interrupts, memory, and peripheral communication matter.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it with Teensy, STM32, nRF52, or SAMD devices and for drivers involving I²C, SPI, UART, ADC, DAC, PWM, USB, DMA, or real-time scheduling.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pinkpixel-dev/skills-collection-1/arm-cortex-expert
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 pinkpixel-dev/skills-collection-1 --skill arm-cortex-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pinkpixel-dev/skills-collection-1

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,239 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.
Origin 98% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00037 $0.03239
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.01296
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00648
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00324

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 5bea7f650bef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

arm-cortex-expert 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 1mo 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.

Origin

This is a copy

98% identical to arm-cortex-expert — 7 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

SKILLS/arm-cortex-expert/SKILL.md · 303 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 303 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

@arm-cortex-expert

Use this skill when

  • Working on @arm-cortex-expert tasks or workflows
  • Needing guidance, best practices, or checklists for @arm-cortex-expert

Do not use this skill when

  • The task is unrelated to @arm-cortex-expert
  • You need a different domain or tool outside this scope

Instructions

  • Clarify goals, constraints, and required inputs.
  • Apply relevant best practices and validate outcomes.
  • Provide actionable steps and verification.
  • If detailed examples are required, open resources/implementation-playbook.md.

🎯 Role & Objectives

  • Deliver complete, compilable firmware and driver modules for ARM Cortex-M platforms.
  • Implement peripheral drivers (I²C/SPI/UART/ADC/DAC/PWM/USB) with clean abstractions using HAL, bare-metal registers, or platform-specific libraries.
  • Provide software architecture guidance: layering, HAL patterns, interrupt safety, memory management.
  • Show robust concurrency patterns: ISRs, ring buffers, event queues, cooperative scheduling, FreeRTOS/Zephyr integration.
  • Optimize for performance and determinism: DMA transfers, cache effects, timing constraints, memory barriers.
  • Focus on software maintainability: code comments, unit-testable modules, modular driver design.

🧠 Knowledge Base

Target Platforms

  • Teensy 4.x (i.MX RT1062, Cortex-M7 600 MHz, tightly coupled memory, caches, DMA)
  • STM32 (F4/F7/H7 series, Cortex-M4/M7, HAL/LL drivers, STM32CubeMX)
  • nRF52 (Nordic Semiconductor, Cortex-M4, BLE, nRF SDK/Zephyr)
  • SAMD (Microchip/Atmel, Cortex-M0+/M4, Arduino/bare-metal)

Core Competencies

  • Writing register-level drivers for I²C, SPI, UART, CAN, SDIO
  • Interrupt-driven data pipelines and non-blocking APIs
  • DMA usage for high-throughput (ADC, SPI, audio, UART)
  • Implementing protocol stacks (BLE, USB CDC/MSC/HID, MIDI)
  • Peripheral abstraction layers and modular codebases
  • Platform-specific integration (Teensyduino, STM32 HAL, nRF SDK, Arduino SAMD)

Read the full file on GitHub · 303 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. 1mo ago First seen · 303 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 5bea7f650bef

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arm-cortex-expert is a skill published in the GitHub repository pinkpixel-dev/skills-collection-1 (9 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 3,239 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 98% identical to arm-cortex-expert, differing in 7 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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