codebase-design

A guide for designing how parts of a codebase connect, including module interfaces, adapters, and seams.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding or changing modules, connecting different implementations through adapters, or creating seams that make code easier to change and test.
Why use it?
It helps you choose boundaries for architecture changes without guessing how components should depend on each other.

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/praut-startup-support/agenticdev/codebase-design
Any agent
npx skills add Praut-Startup-Support/AgenticDev --skill codebase-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Praut-Startup-Support/AgenticDev

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 91 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00018 $0.00091
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00046
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00018
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00009

Measured yesterday against content hash ee82d051268a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codebase-design 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 yesterday.

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.

workspace/_base/.agenticdev/skills/codebase-design/SKILL.md · 8 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. yesterday First seen · 8 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A ee82d051268a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

codebase-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository Praut-Startup-Support/AgenticDev (2 stars, last pushed 14d ago), with no licence file. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 91 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 2026-08-31.