builder-discipline

builder-discipline is a skill for Claude Code from Samuel0101010/wisp-orchestrator. It costs 35 tokens per session (418 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of working rules for coding agents, covering reading code before editing, reusing existing patterns, keeping changes small, and checking the result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as guidance for builder roles when modifying code, running tests or other checks, and recording non-obvious decisions.
Why use it?
It gives code-writing agents a repeatable way to reduce unnecessary changes and verify that their work meets the task.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the wisp plugin — 12 skills, 1 command, 4 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it as guidance for builder roles when modifying code, running tests or other checks, and recording non-obvious decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/samuel0101010/wisp-orchestrator/builder-discipline
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 Samuel0101010/wisp-orchestrator --skill builder-discipline
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Samuel0101010/wisp-orchestrator

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install wisp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 1 command, 4 agents, 6 hooks.

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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 418 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 $0.00035 $0.00418
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00209
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00084
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00042

Measured 10d ago against content hash f14e61d9f4b4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

builder-discipline 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.

apps/dashboard-server/src/skills/seed/builder-discipline/SKILL.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

Follow this discipline on every task. It is ordered; do not skip steps.

  1. Read before you write. Open the files you are about to change and the files that import them. Never edit code you have not read in this session.
  2. Reuse before you create. If the repo already has a helper, pattern, or component for the job, use it. New files need a reason an existing file can't satisfy.
  3. Smallest correct change. Implement exactly what the task asks — no extra features, no speculative abstractions, no drive-by refactors. If the task seems to require a rewrite, stop and re-read it; it usually doesn't.
  4. Match the codebase. Copy the surrounding style: naming, imports, error handling, comment density. Your diff should look like the original author wrote it.
  5. Verify before you claim. Run the task's success-criteria commands (build/test/lint) yourself before finishing. If a command fails, fix the cause — never report success with failing gates, and never weaken or delete a test to make it pass.
  6. Leave a trail. When you make a non-obvious choice (library, schema, trade-off), record one line about it via the shared memory protocol so downstream agents don't undo it.

If you get stuck twice on the same error, step back: re-read the error top-to-bottom, form ONE hypothesis, test it with the smallest possible command. Do not loop blind retries.

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 · 33 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A f14e61d9f4b4

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builder-discipline is a skill published in the GitHub repository Samuel0101010/wisp-orchestrator (4 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 418 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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