creating-devcontainers

A set of instructions for creating and checking DevContainer files, which define a project's development environment inside a container.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or review a devcontainer.json, configure base images, lifecycle steps, VS Code extensions, features, and security settings.
Why use it?
It helps keep development environments consistent and checks that container settings follow organisational and security rules.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/willvelida/code-minions/creating-devcontainers
Any agent
npx skills add willvelida/code-minions --skill creating-devcontainers
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/willvelida/code-minions

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 374 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00071 $0.00374
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00187
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00075
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00037

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3f98cdca10b5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

creating-devcontainers 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 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.

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.

packages/creating-devcontainers/skills/creating-devcontainers/SKILL.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

DevContainer Skill

Overview

This skill provides capabilities for creating and reviewing DevContainer configurations that comply with organisational standards.

Capabilities

Capability Action Description
Create actions/create.md Generate a standards-compliant DevContainer configuration
Review actions/review.md Analyse an existing DevContainer for compliance and improvements

Standards

This skill bundles the following standards in standards/:

Standard File Description
Core core.md Base image, lifecycle hooks, container configuration, file structure
Extensions extensions.md VS Code extension requirements and guidelines
Features features.md DevContainer features configuration and versioning
Security security.md Security requirements and risk guidance
Checklist checklist.md Consolidated compliance checklist
Template template.json Base configuration template

Usage

  1. Load this skill manifest
  2. Identify the required capability (create or review)
  3. Load the bundled standards from standards/
  4. Ask the user what language(s) and tooling the DevContainer needs to accommodate
  5. Execute the action following actions/<capability>.md
Files

What ships with it

8 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 · 42 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 3f98cdca10b5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

creating-devcontainers is a skill published in the GitHub repository willvelida/code-minions (23 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 374 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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