Matrix: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/matrix-claude/SKILL.md

matrix-claude is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Rosenfan/Matrix. It costs 35 tokens per session (998 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A handoff tool that packages an approved Matrix design into a bounded task for Claude Code to implement.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a change is ready for implementation and you want to export its decisions, boundaries, and tasks to Claude Code.
Why use it?
It lets one coding agent design a change while another implements it, while preserving the approved scope and Matrix state.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: installed under .claude/, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex; $skill-name invocation.

This is Rosenfan/Matrix's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on Matrix itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything Matrix configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Rosenfan/Matrix. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Rosenfan/Matrix/master/.claude/skills/matrix-claude/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Rosenfan/Matrix

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 998 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00035 $0.00998
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00499
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00200
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00100

Measured 2d ago against content hash 454391ee978c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

matrix-claude 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 2d 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.

.claude/skills/matrix-claude/SKILL.md · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Matrix Claude Handoff

This is an optional Matrix sidecar, not a Matrix phase. It must not call transition, archive, or write matrix.yaml or events.jsonl. It supports only a matching full or legacy-full three-artifact Contract; new lightweight hotfix/tweak changes are intentionally unsupported.

Use artifact_language from inspect for human-readable handoff text while retaining the stable machine-readable headings and metadata keys.

When to Use

Use $matrix-claude when:

  • The active change is in Build and the Design -> Build transition has approved the contract
  • You want Claude Code (instead of Codex) to implement the design
  • You need a bounded task package with all implementation details

Preconditions

The exporter performs this read-only check before writing anything:

node <matrix-skill-directory>/scripts/matrix-runtime.mjs guard build

If matrix is genuinely absent from PATH, use the bundled runtime from the installed root Matrix Skill. Do not fall back when the primary command starts and returns an error.

If the build guard reports CONTRACT_CHANGED or CONTRACT_UNAPPROVED, return to $matrix-design and approve a new contract through Build. The exporter reads the approved bytes of proposal.md, design.md, and plan.md; it does not invent missing facts.

Export

Treat explicit invocation of $matrix-claude as the user's choice of Claude Code as the implementation actor. Generate the package with the deterministic exporter; it refuses a non-matching approved contract and does not alter Matrix state.

# Generic project: only exports a Matrix artifact.
node <matrix-skill-directory>/scripts/matrix-runtime.mjs export --task-id <ID> --target generic

# FnSec: exports its formal task package. Add --apply-fnsec-board only when
# active.md is NO_ACTIVE_OBJECTIVE; an existing task is never overwritten.
node <matrix-skill-directory>/scripts/matrix-runtime.mjs export --task-id <ID> --target fnsec --apply-fnsec-board

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 lines

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. 2d ago Changed 454391ee978c
  2. 6d ago First seen · 99 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A d0f160949a75

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matrix-claude is a skill published in the GitHub repository Rosenfan/Matrix (5 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 998 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 2026-08-31.

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