cmake-guide

cmake-guide is a skill for Claude Code from xonovex/platform. It costs 93 tokens per session (614 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of build-file guidelines for CMake, a tool that generates build instructions for C and C++ projects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when editing CMakeLists.txt or other CMake files to add targets, libraries, dependencies, tests, installation rules, or multi-directory project structure.
Why use it?
It helps avoid unclear dependencies, incorrect library visibility, and build settings that only appear to work in one directory or configuration.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the xonovex-native plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when editing CMakeLists.txt or other CMake files to add targets, libraries, dependencies, tests, installation rules, or multi-directory project structure.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xonovex/platform/cmake-guide
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 xonovex/platform --skill cmake-guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xonovex/platform

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install xonovex-native, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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Per session 93 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 614 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 $0.00093 $0.00614
Opus 5.5 $0.00037 $0.00246
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00123
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00061

Measured 7d ago against content hash 8daa02ae87bd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cmake-guide 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 7d 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.

packages/runtime/plugin/plugin-native/skills/cmake-guide/SKILL.md · 39 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 39 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CMake Coding Guidelines

Define builds through CMake targets with explicit dependencies, visibility, and installation rules.

Requirements

  • CMake ≥ 3.20; modern target-based usage.

Essentials

Gotchas

  • target_link_libraries scope matters: PRIVATE = consumers don't see it, INTERFACE = no compile, PUBLIC = both. Wrong scope leaks transitive deps
  • find_package may use PATHS or HINTS but ignores both if a config file is on a system path; use <Pkg>_ROOT env var to force-locate
  • Generator expressions ($<CONFIG:Debug>) only evaluate at build time: debugging by message() won't show their final values
  • CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX is captured at configure time; changing it after first config requires a clean reconfigure

Progressive disclosure

Read the full file on GitHub · 39 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. 7d ago Changed · +2 lines 8daa02ae87bd
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 37 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A fda082f6babf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cmake-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository xonovex/platform (6 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 614 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-08.

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