operating-coding-change

A workflow for making changes to software projects, from small edits and bug fixes to larger, governed changes. It routes the work, protects unrelated changes, repairs the responsible rule or boundary, and reports the checks that ran.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to implement features, fix defects, refactor code, add tests, inspect project instructions, and verify the resulting changes.
Why use it?
It helps keep implementation focused, preserve existing work, and distinguish a real fix from a temporary workaround.

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/qingye-lab/rootloom/operating-coding-change
Any agent
npx skills add qingye-lab/rootloom --skill operating-coding-change
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/qingye-lab/rootloom

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,027 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 $0.00046 $0.01027
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00513
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00205
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00103

Measured 2d ago against content hash 23881dfcb9e5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

operating-coding-change 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 2d 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/rootloom/skills/operating-coding-change/SKILL.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Coding change

Deliver the smallest complete result. This Skill owns every implementation tier; never ask the user to choose another Rootloom change workflow.

1. Resolve

Identify the outcome, repository and scope, constraints, non-goals, and proof. Read the host's active project-instruction chain (for example, AGENTS.md) and the smallest evidence needed to route. A dirty worktree is a preservation constraint, not an escalation signal. Preserve unrelated user work and record relevant pre-existing failures.

For a defect, establish:

symptom → trigger/state → owning boundary → violated invariant → root cause

If the cause is external or unproved, label a reversible workaround MITIGATION with its gap, residual risk, and removal condition. Never call symptom suppression a fix.

2. Route

  • direct: mechanical, local, reversible work with an unambiguous target and no behavior or contract decision. Load no Reference. Inspect the target, edit, run the smallest relevant check, inspect its diff, and report; skip broader inventory and challenge work unless target evidence is ambiguous.
  • scoped: ordinary defects, feature slices, tests, refactors, or bounded multi-file work. Use this Skill's verification and challenge steps; load no Reference.
  • governed: established shared/external public APIs or schemas, irreplaceable persisted contracts, migrations, security, infrastructure, deployment/release, destructive effects, major dependencies, material root-cause uncertainty remaining after bounded diagnosis, failed repairs, or substantial blast radius. A local callable/signature shape, file count, version number, serialized artifact, or dirty worktree alone is not public-contract evidence. Before routing schema or format work, establish whether the artifact is authoritative or irreplaceable and whether the new runtime must encounter old instances. Regenerable internal artifacts remain scoped unless another governed signal applies. Read references/governed-change.md and references/verification-contract.md.
  • evidence: only when explicitly requested, repository-required, or needed for a release/governed decision. Read references/evidence-mode.md, references/evidence-contract.md, and references/verification-contract.md. Before the first edit in Governed or Evidence mode, load every required Reference relative to this SKILL.md. If any required Reference cannot be loaded, stop instead of proceeding. Modes compose. Governed external operations also read references/external-actions.md; Evidence Mode records proof, never a replacement for diagnosis, discipline, or approval. Initial cause uncertainty routes through bounded diagnosis, not directly to Governed: an established local owner and repair boundary → scoped; materially different owners, compatibility strategies, or high-risk assumptions remaining afterward → governed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 2d ago First seen · 91 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 23881dfcb9e5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

operating-coding-change is a skill published in the GitHub repository qingye-lab/rootloom (7 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 1,027 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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