software-development-pragmatic-programmer

software-development-pragmatic-programmer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from xiaohei-info/oh-my-multica. It costs 129 tokens per session (3,822 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A software-development skill based on principles such as avoiding duplicated code, keeping parts independent, testing ideas incrementally, and stating clear rules for behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when discussing coding practices, software design, architecture, technical debt, or engineering decisions.
Why use it?
It provides a way to make software easier to change, understand, and maintain over time.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when discussing coding practices, software design, architecture, technical debt, or engineering decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xiaohei-info/oh-my-multica/software-development-pragmatic-programmer
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 xiaohei-info/oh-my-multica --skill software-development-pragmatic-programmer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xiaohei-info/oh-my-multica

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 129 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,822 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00129 $0.03822
Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.01911
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00764
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00382

Measured 11d ago against content hash 53248777b8b9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

software-development-pragmatic-programmer 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.

src/omac/agents/backend-eng/skills/software-development-pragmatic-programmer/SKILL.md · 247 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 247 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The Pragmatic Programmer Framework

A systems-level approach to software craftsmanship from Hunt & Thomas' "The Pragmatic Programmer" (20th Anniversary Edition). Apply these principles when designing systems, reviewing architecture, writing code, or advising on engineering culture. This framework addresses the meta-level: how to think about software, not just how to write it.

Core Principle

Care about your craft. Software development is a craft that demands continuous learning, disciplined practice, and personal responsibility. Pragmatic programmers think beyond the immediate problem -- they consider context, trade-offs, and long-term consequences of every technical decision.

The foundation: Great software comes from great habits. A pragmatic programmer maintains a broad knowledge portfolio, communicates clearly, avoids duplication ruthlessly, keeps components orthogonal, and treats every line of code as a living asset that must earn its place. The goal is not perfection -- it is building systems that are easy to change, easy to understand, and easy to trust.

Scoring

Goal: 10/10. When reviewing or creating software designs, architecture, or code, rate it 0-10 based on adherence to the principles below. A 10/10 means full alignment with all guidelines; lower scores indicate gaps to address. Always provide the current score and specific improvements needed to reach 10/10.

The Pragmatic Programmer Framework

Seven meta-principles for building software that lasts:

1. DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself)

Core concept: Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system. DRY is about knowledge, not code -- duplicated logic, business rules, or configuration are far more dangerous than duplicated syntax.

Why it works: When knowledge is duplicated, changes must be made in multiple places. Eventually one gets missed, introducing inconsistency. DRY reduces the surface area for bugs and makes systems easier to change.

Read the full file on GitHub · 247 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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 · 247 lines · 129 tokens per session scan A 53248777b8b9

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software-development-pragmatic-programmer is a skill published in the GitHub repository xiaohei-info/oh-my-multica (26 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 129 tokens to every session and 3,822 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.