generic-dev

generic-dev is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Plazmodium/odin-workflow. It costs 20 tokens per session (2,254 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

General software development guidance that applies across programming languages, frameworks, and platforms. It covers design principles for dividing code, reducing repetition, and keeping systems understandable.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review architecture, split responsibilities between modules, choose interfaces, simplify code, and apply principles such as SOLID, DRY, KISS, and YAGNI.
Why use it?
It provides a starting point when no technology-specific guidance fits, including work on unfamiliar or older codebases. It helps with broad design decisions before choosing or changing a technology stack.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to review architecture, split responsibilities between modules, choose interfaces, simplify code, and apply principles such as SOLID, DRY, KISS, and YAGNI.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/plazmodium/odin-workflow/generic-dev
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Plazmodium/odin-workflow --skill generic-dev
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Plazmodium/odin-workflow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,254 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 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 5.1 $0.00020 $0.02254
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.01127
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00451
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00225

Measured 6d ago against content hash 01ee71cb9525, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

generic-dev 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 6d 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.

agents/skills/generic-dev/SKILL.md · 308 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 308 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Generic Software Development

Overview

This skill provides universal software development principles that apply across all languages, frameworks, and platforms. Use this as a fallback when specific tech stack skills are not available, or as a foundation that complements specialized skills.

When This Skill Applies

  • No specific framework/language skills match the project's tech stack
  • Building from scratch without established patterns
  • Working with unfamiliar or legacy codebases
  • General architectural decisions before tech stack selection

Core Principles

SOLID Principles

Principle Description Application
Single Responsibility One class/module = one reason to change Split large files by concern
Open/Closed Open for extension, closed for modification Use interfaces and composition
Liskov Substitution Subtypes must be substitutable for base types Don't break contracts in subclasses
Interface Segregation Many specific interfaces > one general interface Split large interfaces
Dependency Inversion Depend on abstractions, not concretions Inject dependencies, use interfaces

DRY, KISS, YAGNI

  • DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself): Extract repeated logic into functions/modules
  • KISS (Keep It Simple): Prefer simple solutions over clever ones
  • YAGNI (You Aren't Gonna Need It): Don't build features "just in case"

Code Organization

File Structure Patterns

src/
├── index.{ext}           # Entry point
├── config/               # Configuration loading
├── types/                # Type definitions
├── utils/                # Pure utility functions
├── services/             # Business logic
├── repositories/         # Data access layer
├── controllers/          # Request handlers (if applicable)
├── middleware/           # Cross-cutting concerns
└── tests/                # Test files (or alongside source)

Naming Conventions

Read the full file on GitHub · 308 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. 6d ago First seen · 308 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 01ee71cb9525

Subscribe to this mod's changes

generic-dev is a skill published in the GitHub repository Plazmodium/odin-workflow (0 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 2,254 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-01.

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