ecosystem-authoritative-sources

ecosystem-authoritative-sources is a skill for Claude Code from richfrem/agent-plugins-skills. It costs 52 tokens per session (2,137 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference skill for learning how Agent Skills, plugins, workflows, and sub-agents are created, structured, installed, and audited. It points to specifications and official ecosystem documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to understand ecosystem concepts, consult authoritative guidance, and check implementation or installation practices.
Why use it?
It gives you a place to check how these components are supposed to work when the terminology or rules are unfamiliar. This helps avoid relying on undocumented conventions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the agent-scaffolders plugin — 33 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to understand ecosystem concepts, consult authoritative guidance, and check implementation or installation practices.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add richfrem/agent-plugins-skills
Claude Code
/plugin install agent-scaffolders

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-scaffolders, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 33 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,137 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 $0.00052 $0.02137
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01069
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00427
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00214

Measured 6d ago against content hash e5774306d977, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ecosystem-authoritative-sources 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 6d 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/agent-scaffolders/skills/ecosystem-authoritative-sources/SKILL.md · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dependencies

This skill requires Python 3.8+ and standard library only. No external packages needed.

To install this skill's dependencies:

pip-compile ./requirements.in
pip install -r ./requirements.txt

See ../../requirements.txt for the dependency lockfile (currently empty — standard library only).


Ecosystem Authoritative Sources

Official Open Standard Recognition

Important: This reference library draws heavy inspiration and structural standards directly from the Anthropic Claude Plugins official repositories. Please refer to:

  • Foundational Specification: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/tree/main/plugins/plugin-dev
  • L4 Interaction & Execution Patterns: Derived from https://github.com/anthropics/claude-knowledgework-plugins (specifically the Legal and Bio-Research plugins).
  • Skill Creator 2.0 (Anthropic, March 2026): https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/skill-creator
  • Anthropic Official Claude Code docs: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/

Agentic OS / Agent Harness Pattern

The Agentic OS is a synthesized runtime environment pattern built from Anthropic primitives:

Component Anthropic Primitive Official URL
Project kernel CLAUDE.md hierarchy (5 scopes) https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/memory
Scheduled tasks /loop command https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/loop
Task specialists Sub-agents (.claude/agents/) https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/sub-agents
Automation Hooks (hooks.json) https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/hooks
Personal shortcuts Slash commands (.claude/commands/) https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/slash-commands
Per-project config Plugin settings (.claude/*.local.md) Anthropic plugin-dev docs

The context/ folder structure, heartbeat.md, START_HERE.md, and memory log patterns are community conventions built on top of these primitives (not Anthropic-official).

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 lines

Files

What ships with it

60 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. 6d ago First seen · 137 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A e5774306d977

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ecosystem-authoritative-sources is a skill published in the GitHub repository richfrem/agent-plugins-skills (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 2,137 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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