core-principles

core-principles is a skill for Claude Code from ShankarKakumani/transformers. It costs 25 tokens per session (53 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A set of working principles for Transformers agents, covering human approval, honesty, impact analysis, and staying within scope.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide agent behavior, assess the effects of changes, limit work to the requested scope, and keep humans involved.
Why use it?
It gives agents shared guidance for making careful decisions and involving people when needed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the transformers plugin — 13 skills, 13 commands, 14 agents, 1 hook shipped together

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/shankarkakumani/transformers/core-principles
Any agent
npx skills add ShankarKakumani/transformers --skill core-principles
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ShankarKakumani/transformers

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install transformers, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 13 commands, 14 agents, 1 hook.

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.

agentmods badge for core-principles

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/shankarkakumani/transformers/core-principles"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/shankarkakumani/transformers/core-principles.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 53 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00025 $0.00053
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00026
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00011
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00005

Measured 5d ago against content hash 6643275ef712, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

core-principles 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 5d 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.

plugins/transformers/skills/core-principles/SKILL.md · 8 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 5d ago First seen · 8 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 6643275ef712

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core-principles is a skill published in the GitHub repository ShankarKakumani/transformers (11 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 53 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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