tools-p4-basics

tools-p4-basics is a skill for Claude Code from tjboudreaux/cc-plugin-perforce. It costs 29 tokens per session (2,225 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to everyday Perforce operations. Perforce is a centralized version-control system where files are stored in a shared depot and local workspaces track their state.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to sync files, open them for edit, add or delete files, submit changelists, revert work, inspect file states, and refer to specific revisions, labels, dates, or changelists.
Why use it?
It explains how to keep a workspace current and how to mark local file changes correctly before sharing them. This reduces mistakes such as editing untracked files or submitting unwanted changes.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the perforce plugin — 4 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to sync files, open them for edit, add or delete files, submit changelists, revert work, inspect file states, and refer to specific revisions, labels, dates, or changelists.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tjboudreaux/cc-plugin-perforce/tools-p4-basics
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 tjboudreaux/cc-plugin-perforce --skill tools-p4-basics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tjboudreaux/cc-plugin-perforce

Made for: Claude Code.

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

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,225 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.
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 $0.00029 $0.02225
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01112
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00445
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00222

Measured 9d ago against content hash 0c24d9eaaba9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tools-p4-basics 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 9d 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.

skills/tools-p4-basics/SKILL.md · 421 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 421 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Perforce Basics

Overview

Perforce (P4) is a centralized version control system optimized for large codebases and binary assets. This skill covers essential daily operations.

When to Use

  • Syncing latest changes
  • Editing files for modification
  • Adding new files
  • Deleting files
  • Submitting changes
  • Reverting unwanted changes

Core Concepts

File States

State Description Command to Change
Not in depot File exists locally but not tracked p4 add
Synced File matches depot version -
Edited Open for edit, modified locally p4 edit then modify
Added Marked for addition to depot p4 add
Deleted Marked for deletion from depot p4 delete
Out of date Depot has newer version p4 sync

Revision Specifiers

# Specific revision number
file.txt#3

# Head revision (latest)
file.txt#head

# Changelist number
file.txt@12345

# Label
file.txt@release_1.0

# Date/time
file.txt@2024/01/15
file.txt@2024/01/15:14:30:00

# Revision range
file.txt#2,#5
file.txt@10000,@12000

Sync Operations

Basic Sync

# Sync entire workspace to head
p4 sync

# Sync specific path
p4 sync //depot/project/...

# Sync specific file
p4 sync //depot/project/file.txt

# Sync to specific revision
p4 sync //depot/project/...#head
p4 sync //depot/project/...@12345

# Sync to specific changelist
p4 sync @12345

Sync Options

# Preview sync (don't actually sync)
p4 sync -n //depot/project/...

# Force sync (re-download even if up to date)
p4 sync -f //depot/project/...

# Parallel sync (faster for many files)
p4 sync --parallel=threads=4 //depot/project/...

# Safe sync (don't clobber writable files)
p4 sync -s //depot/project/...

# Sync and show affected files
p4 sync //depot/project/... 2>&1 | head -50

Selective Sync

# Sync only specific file types
p4 sync //depot/project/....cs
p4 sync //depot/project/....prefab

# Sync excluding paths (use workspace view instead)
# Or sync specific subdirectories
p4 sync //depot/project/Assets/Scripts/...

Read the full file on GitHub · 421 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. 9d ago First seen · 421 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 0c24d9eaaba9

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tools-p4-basics is a skill published in the GitHub repository tjboudreaux/cc-plugin-perforce (8 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 2,225 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 2026-08-31.

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