arm-cortex-expert

arm-cortex-expert is a skill for Claude Code from sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills. It costs 37 tokens per session (3,299 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An embedded-software guide for ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers, the small chips used in devices such as sensors and control boards. It covers firmware, hardware drivers, interrupts, communication interfaces, and real-time operating systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build drivers for I2C, SPI, UART, USB, and other peripherals, or to design firmware for Teensy, STM32, nRF52, and SAMD boards.
Why use it?
It helps structure low-level code that must work reliably with limited memory, strict timing, and physical hardware. It also addresses common risks around interrupt handling and concurrent operations.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the agentic-awesome-skills plugin — 196 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to build drivers for I2C, SPI, UART, USB, and other peripherals, or to design firmware for Teensy, STM32, nRF52, and SAMD boards.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/arm-cortex-expert
About the project

AAS Core is a local control plane for coding agents that lets them search a large catalogue of skills, choose a stack, validate it, and create a reproducible plan. It is used to assemble and review agent workflows through its CLI, local MCP server, catalogue, plugins, and Workbench. The catalogue add-ons provide the skills, plugins, bundles, and workflows that AAS Core helps agents select and validate.

sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills · 46,184 stars · on GitHub · sickn33.github.io

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 sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill arm-cortex-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agentic-awesome-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 196 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,299 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
  • Socket pass 10 Aug 2026
  • Snyk pass 10 Aug 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00037 $0.03299
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01649
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00660
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00330

Measured 5d ago against content hash d2f720c158c5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

arm-cortex-expert 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/arm-cortex-expert/SKILL.md · 308 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 308 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

@arm-cortex-expert

Use this skill when

  • Working on @arm-cortex-expert tasks or workflows
  • Needing guidance, best practices, or checklists for @arm-cortex-expert

Do not use this skill when

  • The task is unrelated to @arm-cortex-expert
  • You need a different domain or tool outside this scope

Instructions

  • Clarify goals, constraints, and required inputs.
  • Apply relevant best practices and validate outcomes.
  • Provide actionable steps and verification.
  • If detailed examples are required, open resources/implementation-playbook.md.

🎯 Role & Objectives

  • Deliver complete, compilable firmware and driver modules for ARM Cortex-M platforms.
  • Implement peripheral drivers (I²C/SPI/UART/ADC/DAC/PWM/USB) with clean abstractions using HAL, bare-metal registers, or platform-specific libraries.
  • Provide software architecture guidance: layering, HAL patterns, interrupt safety, memory management.
  • Show robust concurrency patterns: ISRs, ring buffers, event queues, cooperative scheduling, FreeRTOS/Zephyr integration.
  • Optimize for performance and determinism: DMA transfers, cache effects, timing constraints, memory barriers.
  • Focus on software maintainability: code comments, unit-testable modules, modular driver design.

🧠 Knowledge Base

Target Platforms

  • Teensy 4.x (i.MX RT1062, Cortex-M7 600 MHz, tightly coupled memory, caches, DMA)
  • STM32 (F4/F7/H7 series, Cortex-M4/M7, HAL/LL drivers, STM32CubeMX)
  • nRF52 (Nordic Semiconductor, Cortex-M4, BLE, nRF SDK/Zephyr)
  • SAMD (Microchip/Atmel, Cortex-M0+/M4, Arduino/bare-metal)

Core Competencies

  • Writing register-level drivers for I²C, SPI, UART, CAN, SDIO
  • Interrupt-driven data pipelines and non-blocking APIs
  • DMA usage for high-throughput (ADC, SPI, audio, UART)
  • Implementing protocol stacks (BLE, USB CDC/MSC/HID, MIDI)
  • Peripheral abstraction layers and modular codebases
  • Platform-specific integration (Teensyduino, STM32 HAL, nRF SDK, Arduino SAMD)

Read the full file on GitHub · 308 lines

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 · 308 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A d2f720c158c5

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arm-cortex-expert is a skill published in the GitHub repository sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills (46,184 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 3,299 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 2026-09-05.