impl-standards

impl-standards is a skill for Claude Code from terrylica/cc-skills. It costs 28 tokens per session (1,342 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of engineering rules for writing production code. It covers error handling, shared constants, configuration, dependencies, and progress logging.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when implementing features, reviewing code quality before release, handling errors, replacing magic numbers, managing dependencies, or logging long-running work.
Why use it?
It helps prevent silent failures, repeated values, unclear configuration, and operations that appear stuck while they run.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the itp plugin — 9 skills shipped together , and of cc-skills

Good fit Use it when implementing features, reviewing code quality before release, handling errors, replacing magic numbers, managing dependencies, or logging long-running work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/terrylica/cc-skills/impl-standards
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 terrylica/cc-skills --skill impl-standards
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/terrylica/cc-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install itp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

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 impl-standards

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,342 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 6 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Rogue Agent · line 170
    Skill modifies its own code, configuration, or behavior at runtime. Self-modification enables an agent to escalate privileges, disable safety constraints, or install persistent backdoors.
    Fix: Prevent the skill from modifying its own code, SKILL.md, or configuration files. Treat skill files as read-only at runtime.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 106
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 107
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 132
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 142
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
  • medium Prompt Injection · line 138
    Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.
    Fix: Remove the large whitespace padding (blank-line blocks or long space runs) and review any content hidden below or to the right of it. Keep skill files compact and reviewable so no instructions can be
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 $0.00028 $0.01342
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00671
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00268
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00134

Measured 2d ago against content hash 69a9cfb7858e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

impl-standards scanned grade A 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

response = requests.get(url)
plugins/itp/skills/impl-standards/SKILL.md · 173 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 173 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Implementation Standards

Apply these standards during implementation to ensure consistent, maintainable code.

Self-Evolving Skill: This skill improves through use. If instructions are wrong, parameters drifted, or a workaround was needed — fix this file immediately, don't defer. Only update for real, reproducible issues.

When to Use This Skill

  • During /itp:go Phase 1
  • When writing new production code
  • User mentions "error handling", "constants", "magic numbers", "progress logging", "SSoT", "dependency injection", "config singleton"
  • Before release to verify code quality

Quick Reference

Standard Rule
Errors Raise + propagate; no fallback/default/retry/silent
Constants Abstract magic numbers into semantic, version-agnostic dynamic constants
SSoT/DI Config singleton → None-default + resolver → entry-point validation
Dependencies Prefer OSS libs over custom code; no backward-compatibility needed
Progress Operations >1min: log status every 15-60s
Logs logs/{adr-id}-YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS.log (nohup)
Metadata Optional: catalog-info.yaml for service discovery

Error Handling

Core Rule: Raise + propagate; no fallback/default/retry/silent

# ✅ Correct - raise with context
def fetch_data(url: str) -> dict:
    response = requests.get(url)
    if response.status_code != 200:
        raise APIError(f"Failed to fetch {url}: {response.status_code}")
    return response.json()

# ❌ Wrong - silent catch
try:
    result = fetch_data()
except Exception:
    pass  # Error hidden

See Error Handling Reference for detailed patterns.

Read the full file on GitHub · 173 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 2d ago First seen · 173 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 69a9cfb7858e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

impl-standards is a skill published in the GitHub repository terrylica/cc-skills (62 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 1,342 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-05.

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