policyengine-standards

policyengine-standards is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PolicyEngine/policyengine-claude. It costs 144 tokens per session (3,060 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of development rules for PolicyEngine repositories. It covers the project environment, code formatting, changelog entries, and the checks required before a change can be merged.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when setting up, changing, reviewing, or committing PolicyEngine code. It gives rules for uv environments, Ruff, Bun, Towncrier changelogs, CI, and repository renames.
Why use it?
It helps contributors and coding agents follow the same commands and repository conventions that continuous integration checks. This reduces failures caused by using the wrong Python environment or skipping required release notes.

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/policyengine/policyengine-claude/policyengine-standards
Any agent
npx skills add PolicyEngine/policyengine-claude --skill policyengine-standards
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PolicyEngine/policyengine-claude

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 144 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,060 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 $0.00144 $0.03060
Opus 5 $0.00072 $0.01530
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00612
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00306

Measured 3d ago against content hash 3987eda2a6b0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

policyengine-standards 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 3d 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.

skills/policyengine-standards/SKILL.md · 266 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 266 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PolicyEngine development standards

Load this before committing to, reviewing, or setting up any PolicyEngine repository. It encodes the org conventions that CI enforces — the things a frontier model would otherwise guess wrong. For prose style (blog posts, PR bodies, docs) see the policyengine-writing skill.

Environment: uv + a local .venv

All PolicyEngine Python work uses uv with a .venv at the repository root. Never use bare pip, and never run bare python/pytest.

uv venv                       # creates ./.venv (uv picks the interpreter from pyproject.toml)
uv pip install -e ".[dev]"    # editable install with dev extras
uv run pytest                 # run anything through uv so it uses ./.venv
  • Python version is per-repo — check pyproject.toml (requires-python). The org spans the 3.13/3.14 era; there is no single global version. Do not downgrade a repo to satisfy a stale assumption, and do not hardcode a version across repos.
  • uv run <cmd> guarantees the command runs in the repo's .venv with its locked deps. Bare python script.py / pytest is the most common cause of "works locally, fails in CI".
  • Verifying "latest": if asked for the latest version of a package, read PyPI (https://pypi.org/pypi/<pkg>/jsoninfo.version) immediately before pinning. Never infer "latest" from a lockfile, a local install, or search snippets.

Documentation builds

Python docs use Jupyter Book 2.0 (MyST-NB) — build with myst build docs, never jb build (that is Jupyter Book 1.x). Use MyST markdown syntax.

Before committing — checklist

  1. Write the test first (TDD, below).
  2. Format: make format (or uv run ruff format . for Python, bun run lint -- --fix && bunx prettier --write . for JS).
  3. Run tests: make test (or uv run pytest).
  4. Add a changelog fragment (towncrier, below).
  5. Reference the issue in the PR: "Fixes #123".

Creating pull requests

The CI waiting problem

Read the full file on GitHub · 266 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. 3d ago First seen · 266 lines · 144 tokens per session scan A 3987eda2a6b0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

policyengine-standards is a skill published in the GitHub repository PolicyEngine/policyengine-claude (32 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 144 tokens to every session and 3,060 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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