bash-defensive-patterns

bash-defensive-patterns is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rmyndharis/antigravity-skills. It costs 36 tokens per session (311 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of defensive techniques for Bash, the command-line shell used to automate tasks on Unix-like systems. It covers safer scripts, error handling, logging, and basic tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write deployment scripts, CI/CD jobs, system utilities, and other shell programs that need to handle errors and unusual inputs safely.
Why use it?
It helps prevent scripts from failing silently, mishandling input or files, or causing unintended changes. It also makes automation easier to check and maintain.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to write deployment scripts, CI/CD jobs, system utilities, and other shell programs that need to handle errors and unusual inputs safely.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rmyndharis/antigravity-skills/bash-defensive-patterns
About the project

Antigravity Skill Vault is a collection of reusable Agent Skills for Google Antigravity, covering software development, operations, security, and business work. It is for people who want Antigravity agents to follow specialized expertise, personas, and structured workflows. The catalogue skills are entries from this collection.

rmyndharis/antigravity-skills · 1,502 stars · on GitHub

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 rmyndharis/antigravity-skills --skill bash-defensive-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rmyndharis/antigravity-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 311 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 36
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00036 $0.00311
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00156
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00062
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00031

Measured 8d ago against content hash bbe18fd4a2d1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bash-defensive-patterns 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

4 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/bash-defensive-patterns/SKILL.md · 44 lines

What it actually says

Bash Defensive Patterns

Comprehensive guidance for writing production-ready Bash scripts using defensive programming techniques, error handling, and safety best practices to prevent common pitfalls and ensure reliability.

Use this skill when

  • Writing production automation scripts
  • Building CI/CD pipeline scripts
  • Creating system administration utilities
  • Developing error-resilient deployment automation
  • Writing scripts that must handle edge cases safely
  • Building maintainable shell script libraries
  • Implementing comprehensive logging and monitoring
  • Creating scripts that must work across different platforms

Do not use this skill when

  • You need a single ad-hoc shell command, not a script
  • The target environment requires strict POSIX sh only
  • The task is unrelated to shell scripting or automation

Instructions

  1. Confirm the target shell, OS, and execution environment.
  2. Enable strict mode and safe defaults from the start.
  3. Validate inputs, quote variables, and handle files safely.
  4. Add logging, error traps, and basic tests.

Safety

  • Avoid destructive commands without confirmation or dry-run flags.
  • Do not run scripts as root unless strictly required.

Refer to resources/implementation-playbook.md for detailed patterns, checklists, and templates.

Resources

  • resources/implementation-playbook.md for detailed patterns, checklists, and templates.
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. 8d ago First seen · 44 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A bbe18fd4a2d1

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bash-defensive-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository rmyndharis/antigravity-skills (1,502 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 311 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.