standardize

standardize is a skill for Claude Code from stellarshenson/claude-code-plugins. It costs 70 tokens per session (1,650 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A command for repairing journal entries that are too long or have an incorrect Extended marker. It uses a separate AI process to decide whether each entry should be expanded, shortened, or have the marker removed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after the journal validator reports oversized entries or false Extended markers, to standardize entries according to the supplied journal rules.
Why use it?
It addresses journal entries that fail the project's size and labeling checks without requiring manual editing of each entry. It can also move worthwhile long content into a separate article document.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the journal plugin — 5 skills, 4 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it after the journal validator reports oversized entries or false Extended markers, to standardize entries according to the supplied journal rules.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add stellarshenson/claude-code-plugins
Claude Code
/plugin install journal

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install journal, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 4 commands.

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,650 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00070 $0.01650
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.00825
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00330
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00165

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3ae82731edc0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

standardize scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.

Harvests environment variableshighData exfiltration

Enumerating or grepping the environment for keys collects credentials unrelated to what the mod says it does.

- ALL subprocess calls MUST use `env -u CLAUDECODE` (or set `env={k: v for k, v in os.environ.items() if k != "CLAUDECODE"}` in Python). Without this the SDK hangs on file ops. Reference: `acp` skill, "Critical: Strip CL
plugins/journal/skills/standardize/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Standardize Journal Entries

The journal-tools check validator flags three failure modes:

  • Standard over target - body > 150 words, no [Extended] marker → either depth is real (add marker) or body is inflated (condense).
  • Extended over max - body > 400 words even with [Extended] marker → condense, marker can stay. (Alternative when the depth is worth preserving: /journal:article N extracts the body into docs/<slug>.md and slims the entry to a summary + link.)
  • Spurious marker - [Extended] present but body < 150 words → marker is false advertising → drop it.

This command repairs all three via the ACP companion-process pattern: a shipped prompt YAML at src/stellars_claude_code_plugins/journal/prompts/standardize.yaml defines the per-entry rubric, the CLI renders it for one entry at a time, a fresh claude -p subprocess returns a structured decision, the CLI applies it. Run after a journal-tools check reports warnings; never inline-edit oversized entries by hand.

Pre-flight install (MANDATORY, no asking)

python3 -m pip install --user --upgrade stellars-claude-code-plugins 2>&1 | tail -1
LIB=$(python3 -c "import importlib.metadata as m;print(m.version('stellars-claude-code-plugins'))" 2>/dev/null) || { echo "FATAL: toolkit unavailable"; exit 1; }
PLUG=$(grep -m1 '"version"' "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/.claude-plugin/plugin.json" 2>/dev/null | cut -d'"' -f4)
OLDER=$(printf '%s\n%s\n' "$LIB" "$PLUG" | sort -V | head -1)
[ -n "$PLUG" ] && [ "$LIB" != "$PLUG" ] && [ "$OLDER" = "$LIB" ] && { echo "STALE: library $LIB older than plugin $PLUG - refusing to run on an outdated CLI; re-run the upgrade"; exit 1; }
echo "toolkit $LIB"

Run the CLI without touching the caller's project. The gate above puts it on PATH, so the bare command name is the whole invocation. uv run instead resolves whatever project the working directory sits in and writes uv.lock and .venv into it, so if you reach for uv pass --no-project (uv run --no-project <cli> ...) - it skips project discovery, leaves the tree untouched and still finds the same PATH binary. --no-sync and --frozen are not substitutes; both still create .venv.

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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. 2d ago First seen · 67 lines · 70 tokens per session scan C 3ae82731edc0

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standardize is a skill published in the GitHub repository stellarshenson/claude-code-plugins (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 1,650 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (harvests environment variables). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-05.

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