faf-expert

faf-expert is a skill for Claude Code from Wolfe-Jam/faf-skills. It costs 98 tokens per session (2,616 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An advanced guide to the `.faf` format, a portable file for describing a project to AI tools. It explains the format's scoring model, MCP settings, synchronization, and 21 context fields.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure `.faf` files, understand their score, share one project description across several AI tools, revive older codebases, or standardize project context for a team.
Why use it?
It helps you understand and control the details instead of relying only on automatic setup.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: Claude Code plugin machinery. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the faf plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to configure .faf files, understand their score, share one project description across several AI tools, revive older codebases, or standardize project context for a team.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wolfe-jam/faf-skills/faf-expert
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 Wolfe-Jam/faf-skills --skill faf-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Wolfe-Jam/faf-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install faf, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,616 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 $0.00098 $0.02616
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.01308
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00523
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00262

Measured 8d ago against content hash fe5cc08bbbe9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

faf-expert 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 8d 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/faf-expert/SKILL.md · 245 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 245 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

FAF Expert — Master the Format

.faf is an IANA-registered context format (application/vnd.faf+yaml) — a typed, portable file you own, readable by any AI, with no bespoke manifest and no vendor lock-in. This is the mechanic's manual: scoring internals, MCP configuration, bi-directional sync, and the full slot model.

The FAF skill family — where this fits

Skill What it's for
faf-wizard Done-for-you — one-click .faf for any project DFY
faf-context The builder's quickstart — hand the AI what it needs to hit 100% ✪, fast ← start here if you're new
faf-expert (you are here) Master the format — scoring internals, MCP config, bi-sync, the full slot model Deep

New to FAF? Start with faf-context to reach 100%. Come here to go deep.

When to use this skill

  • Configuring .faf files and the MCP server beyond the basics
  • Understanding the scoring engine and how to drive a project to high tiers
  • Multi-AI workflows — one context across Claude, Cursor, Gemini, Codex, Windsurf
  • Reviving a legacy codebase into AI-readable project DNA
  • Standardizing context format across a team

The format

project/
├── package.json     ← dependencies (npm reads this)
├── project.faf      ← AI context (any AI reads this)
├── CLAUDE.md        ← human docs (synced from .faf)
└── src/             ← code (guided by the context)

README.md is prose for humans · CLAUDE.md is prose for Claude · project.faf is structure for ANY AI (IANA application/vnd.faf+yaml). One source of truth; everything else is emitted from it.

Universal compatibility — one .faf, every tool

AI platform Emitted file Command
Claude (Desktop / Code) CLAUDE.md faf sync
OpenAI Codex / agents AGENTS.md faf sync
Cursor .cursorrules faf export --cursor
Google Gemini GEMINI.md faf export --gemini
GitHub Copilot .github/copilot-instructions.md faf export --copilot

Read the full file on GitHub · 245 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. 8d ago First seen · 245 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A fe5cc08bbbe9

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faf-expert is a skill published in the GitHub repository Wolfe-Jam/faf-skills (4 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 2,616 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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