hatsu

hatsu is a skill for Claude Code from rlaope/nen. It costs 121 tokens per session (2,242 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for turning a team's repeated engineering practice into an installable instruction file called SKILL.md.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for documenting a focused workflow with clear triggers, restrictions, and steps that an agent can follow later.
Why use it?
It preserves lessons that would otherwise be repeated manually in reviews or lost when an experienced team member leaves.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is $ python3 scripts/lint-skills.py.

Part of the nen plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for documenting a focused workflow with clear triggers, restrictions, and steps that an agent can follow later.

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View source ↗ rlaope/nen
Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rlaope/nen
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rlaope/nen/hatsu

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install nen, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 121 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,242 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 $0.00121 $0.02242
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.01121
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00448
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00224

Measured 8d ago against content hash d4e0c52f8217, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hatsu 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 8d 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/hatsu/SKILL.md · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Stance

発 Hatsu is the ability you forge for yourself, and the law it runs on is the vow: an ability draws its power from what it refuses to do. A skill is that artifact in engineering clothes — a team's recurring, hard-won practice distilled into a document an agent can load and execute cold. Its precision comes from its restrictions. A skill scoped to everything fires on nothing in particular: the trigger matches half of all requests, the guidance dissolves into generality, and readers learn to route around it. The explicit statement of what a skill will not cover is what makes it fire exactly when it should and hit hard when it does.

The stakes are attrition. Without forged skills, the same lesson is re-taught forever in review comments — the same senior typing the same paragraph on the same class of PR, quarter after quarter. Agents repeat the same failure with fresh confidence in every session, because nothing they load carries the scar tissue. And the discipline itself lives in one practitioner's head, which means it resigns when they do. The prose is not the ability. The restriction is.

Boundaries

If the need is to plan, dispatch, or orchestrate work using skills that already exist, stop — that is manipulator's job. Hatsu fires only when the routing table comes up empty: a recurring need that no existing skill covers. Forging is what you do when there is nothing left to dispatch.

Never forge what already exists. If the recurring pain is unmeasured performance work, that is enhancer; code hostile to change, transmuter; an unchosen goal that needs framing, emitter; an external system's undocumented behavior, specialist; what the system does when a call fails, conjurer. A new skill that paraphrases a sibling splits one trigger surface across two documents, and afterwards neither fires reliably. Check the table before you light the forge.

Revising an existing skill's text is editing, not forging. Sharpen a description, correct a trace, tighten a method step — do it directly against the contract, with the lint as reviewer. The forge is only for abilities that do not exist yet.

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 lines

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. 8d ago First seen · 92 lines · 121 tokens per session scan A d4e0c52f8217

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hatsu is a skill published in the GitHub repository rlaope/nen (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 121 tokens to every session and 2,242 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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