codebase-design

A code-structure review guide for deciding where modules, public interfaces, ownership, wrappers, and test boundaries should sit.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing or reviewing a codebase’s structure, moving behavior to the right owner, or defining a clear interface between parts of the code.
Why use it?
It helps prevent duplicated logic, unclear ownership, and abstractions that add complexity without solving a real problem.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sgaabdu4/hard-eng/codebase-design
Any agent
npx skills add sgaabdu4/hard-eng --skill codebase-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sgaabdu4/hard-eng

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 325 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 $0.00024 $0.00325
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00162
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00065
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00032

Measured 3d ago against content hash bdf2ce46cba4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codebase-design 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 3d 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/codebase-design/SKILL.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

Codebase Design

Contract

  • Input = accepted behavior + verified topology + current owners/callers.
  • Goal = small public surface hides meaningful policy, state, ordering, errors, and dependencies.
  • Prefer delete concept → move behavior to owner → deepen owner → add boundary only for a proven gap.
  • One pass-through call, naming-only wrapper, speculative mode, or hypothetical seam ≠ abstraction.
  • New product behavior/architecture decision → he; this skill supplies structural evidence only.

Route

Need Load Complete
Owner/module/API/wrapper/seam design or review workflow.md Current leak + proposed contract + deletion + blast radius + proof
Chosen boundary needs materially different interface options alternatives.md Compared options + recommendation + user decision/blocker

Ownership

  • Topology/callers/impact = Codebase Memory + native verification.
  • Branch/PR/WIP verdict = code-review; structural result = evidence input.
  • Public-behavior test design = test-quality.
  • Commands/gates = deterministic-checks.

Complete

  • One canonical owner + explicit public contract + hidden caller knowledge.
  • Direct callers + cross-package/data/schema/key/route/test/doc/config effects covered.
  • Proposed structure deletes or concentrates complexity; moving/wrapping it = incomplete.
Files

What ships with it

3 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. 3d ago First seen · 35 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A bdf2ce46cba4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

codebase-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository sgaabdu4/hard-eng (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 325 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

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