reproduce-the-real-build

reproduce-the-real-build is a skill for Claude Code from randommonicle/claude-skills. It costs 97 tokens per session (429 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A release-build check that runs the exact production build command locally before code is pushed. It also tests toolchain fixes using only tracked project manifests in a clean directory.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before pushing code that a CI or release pipeline will compile, especially after changing build tools or dependencies.
Why use it?
Tests may pass even when the build used for CI or release fails because of syntax, dependency, or toolchain differences.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the ash plugin — 43 skills, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it before pushing code that a CI or release pipeline will compile, especially after changing build tools or dependencies.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/randommonicle/claude-skills/reproduce-the-real-build
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 randommonicle/claude-skills --skill reproduce-the-real-build
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/randommonicle/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ash, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 43 skills, 3 hooks.

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Per session 97 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 429 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.
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 $0.00097 $0.00429
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00215
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00043

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5cc778548046, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reproduce-the-real-build 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.

reproduce-the-real-build/SKILL.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

Reproduce the real build

Two incidents, one shape: the environment that proved the change was not the environment that ships it. A test using ESM-only syntax passed under the test runner and failed the CommonJS production tsc, blocking the deploy. A build-toolchain upgrade left the lockfile behind and kept working for two months only because both machines' node_modules had drifted ahead of it — the first clean reinstall broke everything.

The rules

  • Run the exact production build command locally before pushing anything the pipeline compiles — not just the test suite. The test runner tolerates what the release build rejects.
  • Prove toolchain fixes from the tracked manifests alone: npm ci into a clean directory (never npm install, which mutates the lockfile and hides drift). A fix proven only on the machine that produced it has not been proven — that machine's node_modules is part of the experiment.
  • The lockfile describes what ships. If the build only works because installed dependencies drifted ahead of it, the lockfile is silently wrong and the next npm ci is the outage.

Why

Build environments drift invisibly toward working, and the drift is per-machine; only a manifest-only reconstruction tests what CI and the next machine will actually see. Evidence: ASH CLAUDE.md Railway/Docker tsc lesson (2026-05-20); ASH LESSONS_LEARNED 2026-07-19.

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 · 32 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A 5cc778548046

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reproduce-the-real-build is a skill published in the GitHub repository randommonicle/claude-skills (23 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 429 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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