typescript

A guide to TypeScript, a version of JavaScript that adds compile-time type checking. It covers strict settings and patterns for expressing and checking data types.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing, reviewing, or debugging TypeScript files, type definitions, generics, compiler settings, and type-level code.
Why use it?
It helps catch many mistakes before the program runs and avoids hiding type problems with unsafe casts or untyped values.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the javascript plugin — 5 skills 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/xobotyi/cc-foundry/typescript
Any agent
npx skills add xobotyi/cc-foundry --skill typescript
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xobotyi/cc-foundry

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install javascript, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,179 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00060 $0.03179
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01589
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00636
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00318

Measured 3d ago against content hash d5f69f181266, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

typescript scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 3d 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.

Strips warnings and disclaimersmediumAnti-refusal

Omitting safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.

- Don't lecture — state what's wrong and how to fix it.
plugins/javascript/skills/typescript/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.

TypeScript

Types encode intent. Let the compiler prove the rest.

TypeScript's value is in catching bugs at compile time. Write types that express your domain; let inference handle the obvious. Never fight the type system — if you need as or any, the types are wrong.

References

Topic Reference Contents
Generics, utility types, type-level programming [${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/generics.md] Utility type tables, conditional/mapped type examples, infer, template literals
Narrowing, type guards, discriminated unions [${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/narrowing.md] typeof/instanceof/in examples, exhaustive switch, type predicates, assertion fns
tsconfig options, module resolution, project setup [${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/configuration.md] Base/strict/module configs, library setup, compiler directives, project structure
Branded types, overloads, class patterns, enums [${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/patterns.md] Interface vs type examples, assertion patterns, enum anti-patterns, callback types

Type Safety

  • strict: true always. No exceptions. It enables strictNullChecks, noImplicitAny, strictFunctionTypes, and other critical checks.
  • unknown over any. Use unknown and narrow with type guards. any disables type checking entirely. Reserve any for migration or test mocks only — document why.
  • No non-null assertions (!) without justification. Prefer narrowing. If ! is truly needed, annotate it with the reason the value cannot be null.
  • No type assertions (as) for object literals. Use type annotations (: Foo) instead — assertions hide missing/extra property errors.

Read the full file on GitHub · 245 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 3d ago First seen · 245 lines · 60 tokens per session scan B d5f69f181266

Subscribe to this mod's changes

typescript is a skill published in the GitHub repository xobotyi/cc-foundry (20 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 3,179 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (strips warnings and disclaimers). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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