stata-modernize

stata-modernize is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tmonk/mcp-stata. It costs 36 tokens per session (142 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A guide for updating older Stata programs, a language used for statistics and data analysis. It focuses on making existing code faster, easier to move between computers, and easier to maintain.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review legacy Stata scripts, improve their performance and portability, and make them clearer to maintain.
Why use it?
Older Stata code can rely on fragile patterns, such as changing folders or temporarily saving and restoring data. This helps identify and improve those patterns without starting from scratch.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the mcp-stata plugin — 20 skills, 4 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to review legacy Stata scripts, improve their performance and portability, and make them clearer to maintain.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tmonk/mcp-stata/stata-modernize
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 tmonk/mcp-stata --skill stata-modernize
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tmonk/mcp-stata

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install mcp-stata, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills, 4 agents, 1 hook.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 142 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 unknown 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 $0.00036 $0.00142
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00071
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00028
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00014

Measured 11d ago against content hash 51f98c006753, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

stata-modernize 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 11d 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.

plugin/skills/stata-modernize/SKILL.md · 15 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 11d ago First seen · 15 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 51f98c006753

Subscribe to this mod's changes

stata-modernize is a skill published in the GitHub repository tmonk/mcp-stata (81 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 142 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 2026-08-30.

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