xmake-basics

xmake-basics is a skill for Claude Code from xmake-io/xmake-skills. It costs 50 tokens per session (441 once invoked), scanned C, original, Apache-2.0.

The basic setup for using Xmake, a cross-platform build tool controlled by a Lua file named xmake.lua. It covers installing Xmake, creating a project, defining targets and switching between debug and release builds.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install Xmake, create starter projects, define source and header locations, build executables or libraries, and run debug or release configurations.
Why use it?
It gives a new Xmake project a minimal working structure and explains the commands needed to build and run it. This reduces the setup work before adding dependencies or more targets.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the xmake-skills plugin — 58 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to install Xmake, create starter projects, define source and header locations, build executables or libraries, and run debug or release configurations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xmake-io/xmake-skills/xmake-basics
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 xmake-io/xmake-skills --skill xmake-basics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xmake-io/xmake-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install xmake-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 58 skills.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 441 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 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 $0.00050 $0.00441
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00220
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00088
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00044

Measured 10d ago against content hash b9e6bb17d070, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

xmake-basics scanned grade C with 2 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 10d 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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

- Linux: `curl -fsSL https://xmake.io/shget.text | bash`

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- Linux: `curl -fsSL https://xmake.io/shget.text | bash`
skills/basics/xmake-basics/SKILL.md · 67 lines

What it actually says

Xmake Basics

Xmake is a cross-platform build utility based on Lua. A project is driven by a single xmake.lua file at the repository root.

Installation

  • macOS: brew install xmake
  • Linux: curl -fsSL https://xmake.io/shget.text | bash
  • Windows: download the installer from https://xmake.io or scoop install xmake

Verify with xmake --version.

Creating a project

xmake create -l c++ -P hello        # C++ console app
xmake create -l c -t static hello   # C static library

Templates: console (default), static, shared, binary. List with xmake create --list.

Minimal xmake.lua

add_rules("mode.debug", "mode.release")

target("hello")
    set_kind("binary")
    add_files("src/*.cpp")

That is enough to build with xmake and run with xmake run hello.

Build modes

mode.debug / mode.release are built-in rules. Switch with:

xmake f -m debug     # or release
xmake

Typical layout

myproject/
  xmake.lua
  src/
    main.cpp
  include/
  tests/

add_files("src/*.cpp") globs source files; add_includedirs("include") exposes headers.

When to branch out

  • Target options (kind, deps, flags) → see xmake-targets
  • Adding a 3rd-party library → see xmake-packages
  • User-configurable options → see xmake-options
  • Cross-compilation / alternative compilers → see xmake-toolchains
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. 10d ago First seen · 67 lines · 50 tokens per session scan C b9e6bb17d070

Subscribe to this mod's changes

xmake-basics is a skill published in the GitHub repository xmake-io/xmake-skills (24 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 441 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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