domain-strategy

domain-strategy is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rampstackco/claude-skills. It costs 94 tokens per session (1,983 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning guide for managing website domains, subdomains, and DNS settings across one or more sites. DNS is the system that connects domain names to websites, email, and other online services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose a registrar, plan redirects, decide between subdomains and separate domains, connect email or third-party services, and combine or split sites.
Why use it?
It helps avoid confusing domain setups, broken redirects, and DNS conflicts when sites or services change.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Part of the rampstack-skills plugin — 103 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to choose a registrar, plan redirects, decide between subdomains and separate domains, connect email or third-party services, and combine or split sites.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rampstackco/claude-skills/domain-strategy
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 rampstackco/claude-skills --skill domain-strategy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rampstackco/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install rampstack-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 103 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 94 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,983 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00094 $0.01983
Opus 5 $0.00047 $0.00992
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00397
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00198

Measured 9d ago against content hash 3c793b898049, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

domain-strategy scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 9d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- Verify with curl: `curl -I http://example.com`, `curl -I http://www.example.com`, `curl -I https://www.example.com`. All should chain to a single 200 on the canonical.
skills/domain-strategy/SKILL.md · 219 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 219 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Domain Strategy

Decide how domains, subdomains, and DNS work across a portfolio. Stack-agnostic. Works for one site or one hundred.


When to use

  • Setting up DNS for a new site (apex vs www, primary vs aliases)
  • Choosing or switching registrars
  • Planning redirects across multiple domains (parked, retired, consolidated)
  • Deciding subdomain vs subfolder vs separate domain for a new product line
  • Consolidating multiple sites into one
  • Splitting one site into multiple
  • Setting up DNS for email, security records, third-party services

When NOT to use

  • Migrating content between platforms with URL changes (use content-migration)
  • Email authentication setup specifically (use email-deliverability)
  • Security headers or HTTPS config (use security-baseline)
  • Internationalization domain choices (use internationalization)

Required inputs

  • Current domain inventory (every domain you own or operate)
  • Status of each (live, parked, redirected, retired)
  • Strategic role of each (primary brand, sub-brand, defensive registration, campaign)
  • Current DNS provider and registrar for each
  • Email and third-party service dependencies

The framework: 5 decisions

Every domain decision falls into one of these buckets. Address them in order.

Decision 1: Apex vs www as canonical

Pick one. Redirect the other to it. Pick before launch. Changing later is painful.

  • Apex (example.com): cleaner, more memorable, the modern default.
  • www (www.example.com): historically standard, easier to add CDN-level CNAME records (apex CNAME is technically forbidden but most providers offer ALIAS or ANAME).

Whichever you pick, the other must 301 to it. Both serving content is duplicate content and a soft signal of poor setup.

Decision 2: Subdomain vs subfolder vs separate domain

For a new product, blog, or content section:

Pattern Use when
Subfolder (example.com/blog) Same brand, want SEO equity to flow, default choice
Subdomain (blog.example.com) Different stack or platform, organizationally separate but related
Separate domain (exampleblog.com) Different brand, different audience, intentional separation

Read the full file on GitHub · 219 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 9d ago First seen · 219 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A 3c793b898049

Subscribe to this mod's changes

domain-strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository rampstackco/claude-skills (830 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 1,983 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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