xmake-trybuild

xmake-trybuild is a skill for Claude Code from xmake-io/xmake-skills. It costs 107 tokens per session (1,981 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A way for xmake, a build tool, to build projects that use other systems such as CMake, Make, Meson, Bazel, or Visual Studio MSBuild.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build third-party projects and cross-compile software through supported build systems, including Android NDK and Xcode builds.
Why use it?
It lets you use xmake's platform, compiler, and cross-compilation detection while working with projects that do not use xmake files.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Not installable: its command points at a path on the author’s own machine, so it runs nowhere else. The line is /Users/ruki/Downloads/libpng-1.6.35/build/artifacts.

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

Good fit Use it to build third-party projects and cross-compile software through supported build systems, including Android NDK and Xcode builds.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add xmake-io/xmake-skills
Claude Code
/plugin install 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 107 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,981 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 $0.00107 $0.01981
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00991
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00396
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00198

Measured 10d ago against content hash bd4fdd706219, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

xmake-trybuild 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 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.

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/cli/xmake-trybuild/SKILL.md · 213 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 213 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Xmake TryBuild — Drive Third-Party Build Systems

trybuild lets xmake invoke another build system (CMake, Autotools, Meson, …) while still providing its own platform/toolchain detection, cross-compile support, and incremental-build wrappers. Use it when you need to build an upstream project that doesn't use xmake.lua, but still want xmake's cross-compilation ergonomics.

Supported backends

--trybuild= Backend
autotools ./configure + make (cross-compile supported)
cmake cmake + generator (cross-compile supported)
meson meson + ninja
ninja direct ninja
make make / Makefile
msbuild Visual Studio MSBuild
xcodebuild Xcode CLI builds
scons SCons
bazel Bazel
ndkbuild Android NDK ndk-build

1. Auto-detect mode

Run plain xmake inside a project root that has a recognized file (CMakeLists.txt, configure, Makefile, meson.build, …). Xmake prompts before building:

$ cd libpng-1.6.35
$ xmake
note: CMakeLists.txt found, try building it (pass -y or --confirm=y/n/d to skip confirm)?
please input: y (y/n)
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
...
output to /Users/ruki/Downloads/libpng-1.6.35/build/artifacts
build ok!

Add -y to skip the prompt in CI:

xmake -y

Artifacts land under build/artifacts/.

2. Force a specific backend

When a project ships multiple build systems (e.g. both configure and CMakeLists.txt):

xmake f --trybuild=cmake
xmake

Once set, subsequent xmake / xmake clean calls use the configured backend — no re-prompting.

3. Standard xmake commands work

Once trybuild is configured, normal xmake commands drive the upstream build:

xmake                    # build
xmake --rebuild          # force full rebuild
xmake clean              # clean objects
xmake clean --all        # wipe everything (configure cache, artifacts)
xmake f -m debug         # switch to debug build
xmake f -m release

Read the full file on GitHub · 213 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. 10d ago First seen · 213 lines · 107 tokens per session scan A bd4fdd706219

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xmake-trybuild is a skill published in the GitHub repository xmake-io/xmake-skills (24 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 1,981 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 2026-08-30.

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