philosophy

philosophy is a skill for Claude Code from vmkteam/claude-plugins. It costs 58 tokens per session (1,529 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A development manifesto describing vmkteam’s preferred Go coding practices, design principles, and architecture habits. It is a reference for making code simpler and decisions more consistent.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing or reviewing Go code, choosing between implementation approaches, or explaining architectural decisions to a team.
Why use it?
It provides shared guidance for resolving style and architecture questions instead of relying on personal preference.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the vmkteam-developer plugin — 35 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when designing or reviewing Go code, choosing between implementation approaches, or explaining architectural decisions to a team.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vmkteam/claude-plugins/philosophy
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 vmkteam/claude-plugins --skill philosophy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vmkteam/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install vmkteam-developer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 35 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 philosophy

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vmkteam/claude-plugins/philosophy/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/vmkteam/claude-plugins/philosophy)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/vmkteam/claude-plugins/philosophy"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vmkteam/claude-plugins/philosophy/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for philosophy

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/vmkteam/claude-plugins/philosophy"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vmkteam/claude-plugins/philosophy.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,529 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 $0.00058 $0.01529
Opus 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00612
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00306
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00153

Measured 23d ago against content hash 3731e61a3821, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

philosophy 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 23d 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.

plugins/developer/skills/philosophy/SKILL.md · 107 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Philosophy — манифест vmkteam

Принципы разработки vmkteam. Источник: https://vmkteam.dev

Код

  • Пиши простой код. Думай о том, кто будет его читать через год
  • Кодогенерация лучше ручного кода. Меньше ручного кода — меньше багов
  • Не используй интерфейсы без необходимости. Конкретные типы понятнее
  • Каждый слой имеет свои модели. Конвертеры между слоями обязательны
  • Три строки простого кода лучше одной умной абстракции
  • Комментарий объясняет, почему (неочевидное решение, ограничение), а не пересказывает, что делает код

Go idioms we follow

Конкретные правила, которых придерживаемся на всех слоях. Большинство — mainstream Go, часть — vmkteam-специфика (явно помечено).

Базовые

  • context.Context — всегда первый аргумент (после receiver), никогда не в структурах
  • error — последний возврат. Ошибки не теряются
  • Обёртывание: fmt.Errorf("context: %w", err). Проверка — только errors.Is / errors.As, никогда не сравнивай err.Error() со строкой. Ошибка-значение — sentinel-переменная (var ErrNotFound = ...), ошибка с данными — тип с методом Error()
  • defer для ресурсов сразу после захвата. defer rows.Close(), defer mu.Unlock()
  • Zero-value ready типы — структура должна быть валидна без конструктора, когда это возможно

Типы и пакеты

  • "Accept interfaces, return structs" — принимающие функции/методы работают с интерфейсами, фабрики возвращают конкретные типы
  • Интерфейсы объявляются на стороне потребителя, не провайдера
  • Короткие имена пакетов, одно слово. Никаких util, common, helpers
  • Экспорт по необходимости — начинай с lowercase, поднимай регистр когда появляется реальный внешний потребитель

Конкурентность

  • Не запускай горутины без способа их остановить. ctx + errgroup — базовый паттерн
  • Каналы для сигналинга, мьютексы для разделяемого состояния — не наоборот
  • Background-процессоры — метод Run(ctx) error, возврат при ctx.Done() (см. /gold-arch)

Именование

  • Getters без префикса Get: user.Name(), не user.GetName()
  • Аббревиатуры в одном регистре: userID, HTTPServer, URL
  • Переменная цикла — i, u (короткое), параметр функции — длиннее и содержательнее

Read the full file on GitHub · 107 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. 23d ago Changed · +1 lines 3731e61a3821
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 106 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 86e2188d7a9f

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philosophy is a skill published in the GitHub repository vmkteam/claude-plugins (7 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 1,529 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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