recommend

recommend is a skill for Claude Code from sukoji/loadout. It costs 51 tokens per session (2,516 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A project review and recommendation workflow for choosing coding-agent extensions that fit a repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when setting up an agent for a codebase or reducing an existing setup to a focused set of extensions.
Why use it?
It avoids loading a long, unfocused list of tools. It checks the project and recommends only compatible servers, hooks, and skills that the user chooses to apply.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: Claude Code plugin machinery. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

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 loadout plugin — 2 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when setting up an agent for a codebase or reducing an existing setup to a focused set of extensions.

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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 sukoji/loadout
Claude Code
/plugin install loadout

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install loadout, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,516 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 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 $0.00051 $0.02516
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.01006
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00503
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00252

Measured 1mo ago against content hash f7e7c20b1c14, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

recommend scanned grade B 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 1mo 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

merge into `./.codex/config.toml` under `[mcp_servers.<id>]`: use `command`/`args`/`env` for stdio and
plugins/loadout/skills/recommend/SKILL.md · 153 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 153 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Loadout — recommend and apply

Your job: look at THIS project, figure out what it is, and hand the user a short, ranked loadout of agent extensions worth adding — then apply exactly the ones they choose. You are a recommender and installer, not a list-dumper. Never paste the whole catalog.

Step 0 — Load the catalog (3 tiers)

Resolve the plugin root first from the directory two levels above this SKILL.md. A host-provided PLUGIN_ROOT or CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT may be used when available, but the workflow must not depend on either variable. Refer to the resolved directory as <plugin-root> below.

Read the curated (Tier 1) files fully — they're small and hand-verified:

  • <plugin-root>/catalog/mcp.json
  • <plugin-root>/catalog/skills.json
  • <plugin-root>/catalog/hooks.json
  • <plugin-root>/catalog/domains.json
  • <plugin-root>/catalog/community.json (Tier 3, small)

Each item has id, name, description, domains, signals. MCP items carry a config, hook/setting items a settings object, skill items an install block.

Tier 2 (official marketplace) is large (catalog/ecosystem.json, ~280 entries) — do NOT read it whole. After you know the project's signals (Step 1), Grep ecosystem.json for those signal tokens to pull only the handful of official plugins that match. Each is a tier: "official", verified Anthropic-marketplace plugin installed with the /plugin install <name>@claude-plugins-official command in its install.commands.

Tier meaning: curated = auto-apply safe; official = trusted, install via /plugin; community (Tier 3) = UNVERIFIED — only surface if the user asks to "discover"/see more, label it clearly, and never auto-apply it. Items with "optIn": "token-saver" are never in discover or the domain loadout — offer them only in the separate token-saver step (Step 3).

Step 1 — Profile the project

Detect what the repo is. Be fast and evidence-based — do not ask the user things you can read:

  • Languages / frameworks / package managers: look for package.json (and its deps — react, next, vue, svelte, express, nestjs, prisma…), requirements.txt, pyproject.toml, go.mod, Cargo.toml, pom.xml, Gemfile, pubspec.yaml, *.xcodeproj, build.gradle.
  • Infra / CI: Dockerfile, docker-compose*, .github/workflows, *.tf, k8s/helm.
  • Data/ML: *.ipynb, numpy/pandas/torch/tensorflow in deps, wandb/mlflow.
  • Research / academic: *.tex, *.bib, papers/ dir, arxiv in deps.
  • Security surface: auth/payment/crypto libs, presence of .env.
  • What's already set up: read existing .mcp.json, .claude/settings.json, .claude/settings.local.json, .codex/config.toml, .codex/hooks.json, CLAUDE.md, and AGENTS.md. Never recommend something already installed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 153 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. 1mo ago First seen · 153 lines · 51 tokens per session scan B f7e7c20b1c14

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recommend is a skill published in the GitHub repository sukoji/loadout (3 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 2,516 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.