python-pep-author

python-pep-author is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from pproenca/dot-skills. It costs 185 tokens per session (1,985 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to writing a Python Enhancement Proposal, or PEP—the formal design document used to propose changes to Python, its standard library, or community processes.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for turning a Python feature, interoperability standard, or process idea into a structured draft with the right headers, sections, and status information.
Why use it?
It helps authors choose the correct proposal type and meet the required format and review process before submitting it to the Python community.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for turning a Python feature, interoperability standard, or process idea into a structured draft with the right headers, sections, and status information.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pproenca/dot-skills/python-pep-author
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 python-pep-author
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pproenca/dot-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 185 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,985 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
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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00185 $0.01985
Opus 5 $0.00093 $0.00992
Sonnet 5 $0.00037 $0.00397
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00198

Measured 6d ago against content hash 3bec86b8ef64, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

python-pep-author 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/check-pep.sh, scripts/new-pep.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/python-pep-author/SKILL.md · 153 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 153 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Write a Python Enhancement Proposal (PEP)

A PEP is the design document the Python community uses to propose a new language feature, a stdlib change, an interoperability standard, or a process/informational guideline. This skill takes an author from a rough idea to a correctly-formatted, process-compliant draft ready for submission to the python/peps repository.

The hard parts of a PEP are not the prose — they are getting the type right, the header preamble valid, the sections complete to the acceptance bar, and following the process (vetting, sponsorship, review). This skill bundles two scripts for the deterministic parts and reference docs for the judgement calls.

When to Apply

  • The user asks to write / draft / structure a PEP or a "Python Enhancement Proposal".
  • The user wants to propose a Python language or standard-library feature and needs it written up formally.
  • The user has an idea they've been discussing on the Python Discourse and wants to turn it into a PEP draft.
  • The user needs the PEP template, header fields, or section structure explained or generated.
  • The user is revising an existing PEP (changing status, adding a Resolution, addressing review feedback).

Do not use this skill for internal company RFCs / design docs (use dev-rfc) — a PEP is specifically a proposal to the upstream CPython / Python community governed by PEP 1.

Prerequisites

  • Bash + coreutils (awk, sed, grep, date) for the two scripts — present by default on macOS/Linux.
  • A clone of, or a fork of, github.com/python/peps only when you're ready to submit (Step 6). Drafting needs no repo.
  • No Python runtime is required to draft or lint; the reference implementation (if any) is the author's separate codebase.

Workflow Overview

1. Vet the idea ────► 2. Choose the type ────► 3. Scaffold the file
   (is it PEP-able?)     (Standards/Info/Process)   (scripts/new-pep.sh)
                                                          │
   6. Submit ◄──── 5. Self-check ◄──── 4. Draft each section
   (sponsor, PR)      (scripts/check-pep.sh)   (to the acceptance bar)
        │
        ▼
   7. Review & resolution ──► update Status + Resolution header

Read the full file on GitHub · 153 lines

Files

What ships with it

10 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 · 153 lines · 185 tokens per session scan A 3bec86b8ef64

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python-pep-author is a skill published in the GitHub repository pproenca/dot-skills (205 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 185 tokens to every session and 1,985 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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