load-codeplain-reference

A reference guide for the Codeplain command-line tool, which turns .plain specification files into code and conformance tests. It explains the command, its options, configuration, paths, logging, and API-key setup.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when configuring Codeplain, choosing render ranges, wiring test scripts, copying output, using headless mode, or troubleshooting path and environment settings.
Why use it?
It gives you the exact details needed to run renders and understand where generated files and tests are placed.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 128 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,398 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 $0.00128 $0.03398
Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.01699
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00680
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00340

Measured 2d ago against content hash 968a72ba3a91, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

load-codeplain-reference 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/load-codeplain-reference/SKILL.md · 189 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 189 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CODEPLAIN_CLI_REFERENCE.md

codeplain is the CLI that renders ***plain specification files into production-ready code. It reads a .plain module (and everything it imports / requires), calls the codeplain API, and writes generated code under plain_modules/<module>/code/ and conformance tests under plain_modules/<module>/tests/. The .plain specs are the source of truth; the generated code is a read-only artifact.

This reference covers the CLI surface only. For the ***plain language itself use load-plain-reference; to supervise a live render use run-codeplain; to assemble or validate config.yaml use init-config-file / plain-healthcheck.

Usage

codeplain [options] filename
usage: codeplain [-h] [--verbose] [--base-folder BASE_FOLDER]
                 [--build-folder BUILD_FOLDER]
                 [--log-to-file | --no-log-to-file]
                 [--log-file-name LOG_FILE_NAME] [--config-name CONFIG_NAME]
                 [--render-range RENDER_RANGE | --render-from RENDER_FROM]
                 [--force-render] [--unittests-script UNITTESTS_SCRIPT]
                 [--conformance-tests-folder CONFORMANCE_TESTS_FOLDER]
                 [--conformance-tests-script CONFORMANCE_TESTS_SCRIPT]
                 [--prepare-environment-script PREPARE_ENVIRONMENT_SCRIPT]
                 [--test-script-timeout TEST_SCRIPT_TIMEOUT] [--api [API]]
                 [--api-key API_KEY] [--full-plain] [--dry-run]
                 [--replay-with REPLAY_WITH] [--template-dir TEMPLATE_DIR]
                 [--copy-build] [--build-dest BUILD_DEST]
                 [--copy-conformance-tests]
                 [--conformance-tests-dest CONFORMANCE_TESTS_DEST]
                 [--render-machine-graph]
                 [--logging-config-path LOGGING_CONFIG_PATH] [--headless]
                 filename

Positional argument

  • filename — path to the .plain file to render. The directory containing this file has the highest precedence for template loading, so custom templates placed there override the defaults (see --template-dir). Render the top module of the dependency chain — the module not requires-ed by any other; its requires/import graph is pulled in automatically.

Read the full file on GitHub · 189 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 · 189 lines · 128 tokens per session scan A 968a72ba3a91

Subscribe to this mod's changes

load-codeplain-reference is a skill published in the GitHub repository plainlang/plain-forge (55 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 128 tokens to every session and 3,398 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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