nginx-c-modules

nginx-c-modules is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from pproenca/dot-skills. It costs 79 tokens per session (1,804 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A development guide for building nginx modules in C, covering how modules handle requests, configuration, memory, events, filters, and upstream services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating handlers, filters, upstream integrations, configuration directives, shared-memory areas, event-loop code, or request-processing logic.
Why use it?
It helps prevent crashes, memory leaks, invalid memory use, and other errors that can arise when extending nginx at a low level.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when creating handlers, filters, upstream integrations, configuration directives, shared-memory areas, event-loop code, or request-processing logic.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pproenca/dot-skills/nginx-c-modules
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.

Any agent
npx skills add pproenca/dot-skills --skill nginx-c-modules
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pproenca/dot-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,804 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00079 $0.01804
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00902
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00361
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00180

Measured 6d ago against content hash 464525774e6d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nginx-c-modules 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.

skills/.experimental/nginx-c-modules/SKILL.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

nginx.org C Module Development Best Practices

Comprehensive development guide for nginx C modules, derived from the official nginx development documentation and community expertise. Contains 49 rules across 8 categories, prioritized by impact to guide correct module implementation and prevent common crashes, memory leaks, and undefined behavior.

When to Apply

Reference these guidelines when:

  • Writing new nginx C modules (handlers, filters, upstream, load-balancers)
  • Implementing configuration directives and merge logic
  • Managing memory with nginx pools and shared memory zones
  • Handling the HTTP request lifecycle (body reading, subrequests, finalization)
  • Working with nginx's event loop, timers, and thread pools

Rule Categories by Priority

Priority Category Impact Prefix
1 Memory Management CRITICAL mem-
2 Request Lifecycle CRITICAL req-
3 Configuration System HIGH conf-
4 Handler Development HIGH handler-
5 Filter Chain MEDIUM-HIGH filter-
6 Upstream & Proxy MEDIUM upstream-
7 Event Loop & Concurrency MEDIUM event-
8 Data Structures & Strings LOW-MEDIUM ds-

Quick Reference

1. Memory Management (CRITICAL)

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 lines

Files

What ships with it

52 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 121 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 464525774e6d

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nginx-c-modules is a skill published in the GitHub repository pproenca/dot-skills (205 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 1,804 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

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