diy-build-companion

diy-build-companion is a skill for Claude Code from YoungLeadersDotTech/young-leaders-tech-marketplace. It costs 61 tokens per session (2,957 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning and progress companion for DIY builds that keeps project state in Google Drive. It works across Claude desktop, web, and mobile, with modes for starting, resuming, checking progress, taking breaks, and child-safety checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan and run a DIY project, resume work, check status, save progress before a break, manage work blocks, and apply the child-safety veto gate.
Why use it?
Keeping project notes locally can make different devices disagree about the latest state. Shared Google Drive state helps keep the build synchronized, although some sessions may require you to save updates manually.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the standalone-skills plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan and run a DIY project, resume work, check status, save progress before a break, manage work blocks, and apply the child-safety veto gate.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/youngleadersdottech/young-leaders-tech-marketplace/diy-build-companion
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add YoungLeadersDotTech/young-leaders-tech-marketplace --skill diy-build-companion
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/YoungLeadersDotTech/young-leaders-tech-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install standalone-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,957 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 $0.00061 $0.02957
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01478
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00591
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00296

Measured 12d ago against content hash e4c5ddd0b39c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

diy-build-companion 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 12d 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.

plugins/standalone-skills/skills/diy-build-companion/SKILL.md · 226 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 226 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DIY Build Companion

A single companion for planning and running DIY builds. It follows an assembly-line workflow with energy-aware work blocks and enforced breaks, and keeps the same project state in sync across Claude desktop, web, and the mobile app. This replaces the older five-skill Claude Code suite (diy-start, diy-resume, diy-progress, diy-break, diy-safety-check) with one skill and five modes.

Before you start (two things worth knowing). First, if you previously installed the older five skills (diy-start, diy-resume, diy-progress, diy-break, diy-safety-check), remove them so a request does not trigger both the old and new behaviour. Second, this skill keeps state in Google Drive, and reading it back is what fixes the cross-surface drift. Reading is reliable; writing may need your help in sessions without a Drive write tool, in which case the skill hands you the updated file to save rather than writing it silently (see the write rule below). On those sessions, expect to paste state back occasionally; it is the honest cost of never trusting a write that did not happen.

The one rule that fixes the cross-surface problem

The previous suite kept project state in a local file tree, so mobile and web each had their own copy and they drifted. Here, the single source of truth is a project folder in Google Drive, reached through the Google Drive connector that is available in the chat regardless of which device you are on. Every mode reads the current state from Drive before doing anything. Do not cache state in your head across turns or assume a local file is current: read Drive first.

Reads and writes are not symmetric, and this matters. The Drive connector reliably supports reading (search and fetch), so always pull the live state at the start of a turn. Writing back to Drive may not be available as a direct tool in every session. Before claiming any write, confirm a Drive write/update tool is actually present. If it is, use it and confirm the path. If it is not, do the honest fallback: produce the updated file as a fenced Markdown block and tell the user the exact filename and folder to save or replace it with. Never claim a write to Drive that did not happen - this was the original failure mode and silent false-writes are worse than an honest handback. When in doubt, hand back the block.

Read the full file on GitHub · 226 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 12d ago First seen · 226 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A e4c5ddd0b39c

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diy-build-companion is a skill published in the GitHub repository YoungLeadersDotTech/young-leaders-tech-marketplace (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 2,957 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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