run-codeplain

A supervisor for a codeplain render, where codeplain turns a plain-language module into code. It starts or resumes the render and watches its logs, generated files, and running process.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to launch or monitor a codeplain render and determine whether it is progressing, failing, or needs intervention.
Why use it?
It helps detect stalled renders, repeated conformance attempts, complexity errors, missing concepts, and render failures while the process runs.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 111 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 10,088 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 $0.00111 $0.10088
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.05044
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.02018
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.01009

Measured 2d ago against content hash cf062418775d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

run-codeplain 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/run-codeplain/SKILL.md · 484 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 484 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Run Codeplain

Always use the skill load-codeplain-reference to retrieve the full codeplain CLI reference (every flag, path-resolution rules, config.yaml mapping, render banners, exit codes), and the skill load-plain-reference to retrieve the ***plain syntax rules — but only if you haven't done so yet. This skill drives the codeplain CLI, so the CLI reference is required before launching or resuming any render.

What this skill is

A supervisor around a live codeplain render. The renderer itself is the codeplain CLI; this skill does not generate code. It:

  1. Launches codeplain <module>.plain (or attaches to an in-flight run).
  2. Watches three signal sources in a tight loop, in priority order:
    • codeplain.log — the primary signal. Everything the renderer is doing, deciding, retrying, or failing at gets written here. This is the file you stare at.
    • the generated code outputs under plain_modules/<module>/ and plain_modules/<module>/tests/ — a secondary signal, used to corroborate or contradict what the log says.
    • the process / TUI itself (alive? exited? exit code?) — a tertiary signal, used only to know whether to keep monitoring.
  3. Surfaces what is happening to the user in plain English, in near-real-time.
  4. On pathology, stops the renderer (with user approval), hands off to the right edit skill, and resumes from the last completed functionality.

This skill is read-mostly. It does not modify .plain files itself — it delegates to debug-specs, resolve-spec-conflict, break-down-func-spec, add-implementation-requirement, etc. The only files it writes are control files: it may kill a process, and it shells out to codeplain again to resume.

The log is the ground truth. The TUI is opaque to the agent; the filesystem moves slowly and only on completed steps; but codeplain.log updates the moment the renderer takes any action — API call, retry, fix attempt, test run, abort. If the log and the filesystem disagree, trust the log. If the log and the TUI disagree (per the user's description), trust the log.

Read the full file on GitHub · 484 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 · 484 lines · 111 tokens per session scan A cf062418775d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

run-codeplain is a skill published in the GitHub repository plainlang/plain-forge (55 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 111 tokens to every session and 10,088 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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