using-nucleus

using-nucleus is a skill for Claude Code from protect-my-hair/nucleus-marketplace. It costs 75 tokens per session (1,125 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An entry workflow for Nucleus V2, a coding-agent framework for managing requirements, design, features, tests, delivery, and repository setup.

In plain words
What is it for?
Starting Nucleus tasks, routing them to the appropriate workflow, loading required instructions, and stopping when required inputs or approvals are missing.
Why use it?
It ensures the agent reads the repository rules, checks for missing context, and selects the correct detailed workflow before acting.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the nucleus plugin — 27 skills, 1 agent, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Starting Nucleus tasks, routing them to the appropriate workflow, loading required instructions, and stopping when required inputs or approvals are missing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/protect-my-hair/nucleus-marketplace/using-nucleus
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 protect-my-hair/nucleus-marketplace --skill using-nucleus
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/protect-my-hair/nucleus-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install nucleus, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills, 1 agent, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for using-nucleus

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,125 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 $0.00075 $0.01125
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00562
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00225
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00112

Measured 12d ago against content hash bfd174e08dbd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

using-nucleus 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 12d 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.

plugins/nucleus/skills/using-nucleus/SKILL.md · 54 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Using Nucleus

核心规则

在任何 Nucleus V2 工作开始前使用本 Skill:它只建立入口纪律,不实现具体 workflow,不替代具体 Skill,不调用 V1 命令。Nucleus 是 coding agent 内部插件 / 脚手架,任何 Nucleus 需求、设计、特性、缺陷、测试、交付、setup 或 PMS 协作任务,都必须先进入最具体的 Skill,再按该 Skill 的门禁执行。

如何加载 Skill

  • 先读目标仓库 AGENTS.md,以仓库规则作为最高事实源。
  • Claude Code:使用 Skill tool 加载 Nucleus Skill;如果通过 /ac:* command 进入,也必须继续读取对应 Skill 正文。
  • Codex:使用已安装 plugin 暴露的 Skills 加载 Nucleus Skill;没有 /ac:* command 时,直接使用 Skill 入口。
  • 其他 coding agent:按宿主文档加载已安装的 Nucleus Skill。
  • 如果 Skill 提到的工具名和当前宿主工具不一致,读取 references/<host>-tools.md 做工具映射。
  • 根据用户请求、PMS context 或本地 context 找到最具体的 Nucleus Skill。
  • 识别到具体 workflow 后,必须加载对应 Skill,必须读取该 Skill 正文,并按它的 HARD-GATE、STOP、Checklist、写入边界和验证要求执行。
  • 当前无法确认具体 Skill 时,只说明缺少哪些上下文并停住;不得猜一个 workflow 继续执行。
  • 用户要求“先简单看一下”“先跑一下脚本”“先生成个候选”时,仍然要先完成入口识别和目标 Skill 加载。
  • 当用户请求模糊、需要在多个 workflow 间选择时,按 _shared/references/interaction-format.md 的选择型格式呈现候选 workflow 和推荐,不要用散文堆问题。

宿主任务与预审

  • 目标 Skill 含 ## Checklist 或 Task / Todo 执行纪律时,必须先创建宿主 todo/task 并逐项更新状态;细则见 references/checklist-discipline.md.nucleus/runs/**.nucleus/tests/**.nucleus/** 证据、summary、result、candidate、review report 只能记录事实,不能替代宿主任务、人工选择、人工评审或 PMS 状态。
  • 到达任何人工审查点前,必须先按 _shared/references/subagent-precheck-protocol.md 调度独立 reviewer 子代理执行 subagentPreReview;未取得”材料可提交人工审查”结论前,不得询问用户”是否评审通过”。

红旗

出现以下想法时必须停住,回到入口识别或目标 Skill 正文:

想法 必须改成
“先跑 runtime 看看” 先完成入口识别并加载目标 Skill
“先写一个候选文件” 先确认目标 Skill 允许的候选阶段和 STOP 点
“我知道该怎么做,可以不读目标 Skill” 读取目标 Skill 正文并按其行为纪律执行
“summary/result 已经生成,可以继续下游” 检查宿主任务、人工事实和 gate 证据
“候选文件里有推荐答案,就按推荐继续” 推荐不是授权,等待明确回复或审批事实
“这是简单 Nucleus 任务,不需要建 todo/task” 只要目标 Skill 有 Checklist 或 Task / Todo 执行纪律,就必须创建宿主任务

Read the full file on GitHub · 54 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 12d ago First seen · 54 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A bfd174e08dbd

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using-nucleus is a skill published in the GitHub repository protect-my-hair/nucleus-marketplace (162 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 1,125 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 2026-08-30.

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