oop-guide

oop-guide is a skill for Claude Code from xonovex/platform. It costs 50 tokens per session (450 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to object-oriented programming, a way of organizing code around objects that combine data with related behavior. It covers class design, interfaces, inheritance, composition, and common design problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing class hierarchies, interfaces, inheritance, polymorphism, encapsulation, or common object-oriented design patterns.
Why use it?
It helps prevent overly large classes, fragile inheritance, duplicated structures, and unclear responsibilities. It also gives principles for choosing simpler designs and keeping implementation details private.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the xonovex-core plugin — 19 skills, 5 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it when designing class hierarchies, interfaces, inheritance, polymorphism, encapsulation, or common object-oriented design patterns.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install xonovex-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 5 commands.

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.

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README.md
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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 450 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 $0.00050 $0.00450
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00180
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00090
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00045

Measured 7d ago against content hash 626ee034a033, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

oop-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-core/skills/oop-guide/SKILL.md · 33 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 33 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

General Object-Oriented Programming Guidelines

Use composition, focused interfaces, and encapsulated state to keep object-oriented code easy to change.

Stances

  • Prefer composition over inheritance; program to interfaces, reserving abstract classes for shared implementation.
  • Keep state private; expose behavior through methods.
  • SOLID: single responsibility, open/closed, Liskov substitution, interface segregation, dependency inversion.
  • Apply patterns (Factory, Strategy, Observer) only when they simplify code, never speculatively.

Design smells

Recognizers for common OO-design problems and the principle each violates.

  • God Object / Large Class: one class with many responsibilities and low cohesion; split by responsibility (single responsibility).
  • Refused Bequest: a subclass that ignores or throws on inherited behavior breaks the base-class contract (Liskov substitution); prefer composition over that inheritance.
  • Downcasting: a cast that asks "which subtype is this really?" breaks the abstraction and usually signals a Liskov violation; dispatch through the interface instead.
  • Divergent Change: one class edited for many unrelated reasons; separate the reasons into focused classes (single responsibility).
  • Parallel Inheritance Hierarchies: every new subclass in one tree forces a mirrored subclass in another; collapse or fold the hierarchies.
  • Alternative Classes with Different Interfaces: two classes do the same job with unswappable signatures; unify the interface so callers don't choose sides.
  • Temporary Field: a field populated only in some circumstances, empty otherwise; extract the conditional behavior (often into a method object) so the field isn't left dangling.

Gotchas

  • Liskov substitution is about behavior, not just signatures: Square extends Rectangle is the classic violation despite matching types
  • Mutable shared state plus method calls = order-dependent behavior; making fields final/readonly is the cheapest correctness lever

Read the full file on GitHub · 33 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 7d ago Changed · +2 lines 626ee034a033
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 31 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 31a9204b8e2f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

oop-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository xonovex/platform (6 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 450 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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