add-resource

A way to link an external file into a plain specification. The linked file can be a JSON schema, API description, data file, or similar supporting resource.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to reference schemas, API specifications, transformation files, or other project resources from a specification.
Why use it?
It keeps large or reusable supporting details outside the specification while still making them available during rendering and code generation.

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/plainlang/plain-forge/add-resource
Any agent
npx skills add plainlang/plain-forge --skill add-resource
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/plainlang/plain-forge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,139 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 $0.00051 $0.02139
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01069
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00428
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00214

Measured 2d ago against content hash e1d09b16f528, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

add-resource 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.

forge/skills/add-resource/SKILL.md · 107 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Add Resource

Always use the skill load-plain-reference to retrieve the ***plain syntax rules — but only if you haven't done so yet.

Linked resources are external files referenced from within a .plain spec using markdown link syntax. The file contents are passed to the renderer alongside the spec, providing additional context for code generation.

Workflow

  1. Identify or create the resource file. Keep it inside the project — the resources/ directory is the conventional home; it does not have to sit next to the .plain file.
  2. Add the markdown link at the appropriate place in the spec.
  3. Verify the file path is relative to the .plain file location.
  4. Read the file back to confirm correct link syntax and path.

Format

Use standard markdown link syntax inside any spec section:

***definitions***
- :AuthData: is the authentication data structure.
  - Its format is defined in the [auth schema](resources/auth_schema.json).

***implementation reqs***
- When transforming :BackupData:, use the JOLT transform.
  - The transform is defined in [backup_transform.jolt](resources/backup_transform.jolt).

***functional specs***

- An API conforming to the [API specification](resources/api_spec.yaml) is exposed.

Path Rules

  • Paths are resolved relative to the directory where codeplain is run (the current working directory).
  • Relative paths may traverse into parent directories — [resource](../../resources/resource.md) is valid — as long as they resolve to a real text file on disk.
  • No external URLs — only local file references.
  • No folder paths — the target must be a file, not a directory.
  • Only text-based files are supported.

A linked resource MUST be a single, text-based file that exists on disk

A linked resource is always a single file that exists on disk at the path you reference, and that file's content must be text-based. The renderer reads the linked file's bytes and feeds them into the model alongside the spec; a directory, a remote URL, or a binary blob breaks that contract and is one of the most disruptive mistakes you can make when authoring a .plain file — the spec looks valid but the renderer either silently ignores the link, fails to read it, or wastes the model's context window on bytes it cannot interpret.

Read the full file on GitHub · 107 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. 2d ago First seen · 107 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A e1d09b16f528

Subscribe to this mod's changes

add-resource is a skill published in the GitHub repository plainlang/plain-forge (55 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 2,139 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 2026-08-30.

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