gum-create

gum-create is a skill for Claude Code from Volchunovich/gum. It costs 14 tokens per session (2,747 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for creating GUM modules, which are rule-and-hook packages that enforce behaviours in a project. It guides you through defining the module and generates its configuration files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Naming and describing a module, defining its behaviours, deciding which behaviours need automated hooks or written rules, and generating the module files.
Why use it?
It turns a set of desired project rules into a registered module instead of leaving them as informal instructions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PostToolUse hook event. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Naming and describing a module, defining its behaviours, deciding which behaviours need automated hooks or written rules, and generating the module files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/volchunovich/gum/gum-create
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 Volchunovich/gum --skill gum-create
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Volchunovich/gum

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,747 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 $0.00014 $0.02747
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.01373
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00549
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00275

Measured 9d ago against content hash d3325f3256e7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gum-create 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/gum-create/SKILL.md · 264 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 264 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create GUM Module

This skill creates a new GUM module from scratch. You guide the user through naming, describing, and defining behaviors -- then you generate all files, register the module, and sync hooks. When you finish, the module is live and enforced immediately.

Announce at start: "I'm using the gum-create skill to build a new GUM module."

Checklist

IMMEDIATELY on skill load — before asking ANY question or producing ANY output other than the announcement — create a TaskCreate for EACH of these items:

  1. Ask module name — one question, wait for answer
  2. Ask description — one-line summary of what the module does
  3. Gather behaviors — ask user to describe all rules/behaviors they want
  4. Classify each behavior — mechanical (→ hook) or judgment-based (→ rule)
  5. Confirm classification — present the split to user, get approval
  6. Generate module files — module.yaml, rules.md, hooks.json
  7. Sync — run npx get-gum sync via Bash to register module and sync rules/hooks
  8. Confirm active — show the user their module is live

Mark each task as completed as you finish it. Do NOT batch — mark done immediately.

The Iron Law

HOOKS OVER RULES FOR MECHANICAL TASKS. ALWAYS.

Rules depend on LLM compliance (~70%). Hooks are system-enforced (100%). If a behavior can be a hook, it MUST be a hook. Never leave guaranteed enforcement on the table.

When to Use

  • User says "create a module", "add a GUM module", "new gum rule"
  • User wants to codify a recurring instruction into something portable
  • User describes behaviors they want enforced across projects
  • User wants to automate a pre/post action (lint, format, strip lines)

Use this ESPECIALLY when:

  • User keeps repeating the same instruction every session
  • User describes something mechanical ("always run X after Y")
  • User wants team-wide behavior enforcement

Don't skip when:

  • User says "just add it to CLAUDE.md" -- GUM modules are portable, CLAUDE.md is not
  • User thinks it's "too small for a module" -- small, focused modules are ideal

Read the full file on GitHub · 264 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 · 264 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A d3325f3256e7

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gum-create is a skill published in the GitHub repository Volchunovich/gum (5 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 2,747 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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