best-practices

best-practices is a skill for Claude Code from reidemeister94/development-skills. It costs 44 tokens per session (211 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research guide for answering questions about current best practices. It compares evidence, recommendations, trade-offs, and uncertainty in any field.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research state-of-the-art methods, compare options, assess pros and cons, and make recommendations for a particular situation.
Why use it?
It helps when the right choice depends on recent information, competing approaches, or the user's specific constraints. It separates documented evidence from conclusions drawn from it.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the development-skills plugin — 16 skills, 1 agent, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to research state-of-the-art methods, compare options, assess pros and cons, and make recommendations for a particular situation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/reidemeister94/development-skills/best-practices
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 reidemeister94/development-skills --skill best-practices
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/reidemeister94/development-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install development-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 1 agent, 2 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 211 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 $0.00044 $0.00211
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00105
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00042
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00021

Measured 10d ago against content hash 91434d1df940, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

best-practices 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 10d 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.

skills/best-practices/SKILL.md · 18 lines

What it actually says

Best Practices

Match research depth to the decision: quick lookup for a narrow fact; multiple primary sources for costly, risky, disputed, or fast-changing choices.

Use /deep-research on Claude when available; on Codex, browse iteratively.

Prefer primary sources, cite material claims inline, and separate evidence from inference. Explain consensus, disagreement, uncertainty, and where each recommendation applies. Recommend for the user's goals and constraints, not for an imaginary average user.

If missing context changes the answer, ask for it or give clearly conditional recommendations. Do not pad the report with source quotas, evidence labels, or weak secondary material.

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. 10d ago First seen · 18 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 91434d1df940

Subscribe to this mod's changes

best-practices is a skill published in the GitHub repository reidemeister94/development-skills (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 211 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 2026-08-30.

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