conventions

conventions is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from xiaolai/nlpm. It costs 76 tokens per session (3,448 once invoked), scanned A, original, ISC.

A shared set of conventions for natural-language programming files, such as skills, agent instructions, and project memory files. It explains formats like SKILL.md and AGENTS.md and points to rules for specific coding tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing, reviewing, or scoring skills and other agent instructions across Claude Code, Codex CLI, or Antigravity.
Why use it?
It reduces confusion when the same project uses several coding-agent tools with different file formats and naming rules.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the nlpm plugin — 17 skills, 12 commands, 8 agents, 1 hook shipped together

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/xiaolai/nlpm/conventions
Any agent
npx skills add xiaolai/nlpm --skill conventions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xiaolai/nlpm

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install nlpm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills, 12 commands, 8 agents, 1 hook.

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 conventions

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/xiaolai/nlpm/conventions.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/xiaolai/nlpm/conventions)
Your own site
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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,448 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 $0.00076 $0.03448
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.01724
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00690
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00345

Measured 4d ago against content hash c46c4f49e6d2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

conventions 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 4d 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.

codex/skills/conventions/SKILL.md · 222 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 222 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Universal NL Programming Conventions

The cross-tool floor for all artifact schemas. Use this skill when scoring or writing any NL programming artifact regardless of which tool (Claude Code / Codex CLI / Antigravity) it targets.

Tool-specific overlays load on top of this universal floor:

  • nlpm:conventions-claude — Claude Code artifacts (.claude/, plugin.json, etc.)
  • nlpm:conventions-codex — Codex CLI artifacts (.codex/, .agents/, AGENTS.md)
  • nlpm:conventions-antigravity — Antigravity (and legacy Gemini CLI) artifacts (.gemini/, .agent/)

The scorer loads the matching overlay per tier classification — see agents/scorer.md step 3.

Design rationale: analysis/multi-tool-design-2026-05.md.


1. SKILL.md — Cross-Tool Open Standard

SKILL.md is the Agent Skills open spec, stewarded by the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation. Anthropic published the spec on 2025-12-18; OpenAI, Microsoft, Google adopted within 48 hours. By 2026-03, 32+ tools read the same SKILL.md format (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI / Antigravity, Cursor, Kiro, Continue, etc.).

Authoritative reference: https://agentskills.io/specification

Required frontmatter (per the open spec):

  • name — string; 1-64 chars, lowercase + hyphens only, MUST match parent directory name (no leading/trailing/consecutive hyphens).
  • description — string; 1-1024 chars; should describe what the skill does AND when to use it.

Optional frontmatter (per the open spec):

  • license — license name or reference to a bundled file.
  • compatibility — environment requirements, max 500 chars (e.g., "Designed for Claude Code", "Requires Python 3.14+ and uv").
  • metadata — arbitrary key-value mapping (author, version, etc. go here, NOT as top-level fields).
  • allowed-tools — space-separated tool list (experimental in spec; tool-specific in practice — e.g., Bash(git:*) Read).

Tool-specific extensions to SKILL.md frontmatter live in the per-tool overlay skills. The scorer applies the universal spec rules to ALL SKILL.md files. Tool-specific overlay rules apply ONLY to files at the matching tool's canonical paths.

Read the full file on GitHub · 222 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. 4d ago First seen · 222 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A c46c4f49e6d2

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conventions is a skill published in the GitHub repository xiaolai/nlpm (134 stars, last pushed today), licensed ISC. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 3,448 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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