ai-dev-os-why

ai-dev-os-why is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yunbow/ai-dev-os-plugin-claude-code. It costs 57 tokens per session (346 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for explaining why a team's AI development rules exist, by connecting each rule to broader principles and values.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to trace a rule through the team's guidelines and principles, then show what can go wrong and compare code before and after applying it.
Why use it?
It helps answer questions about rules with their purpose, risks, and examples instead of presenting them as unexplained requirements.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the ai-dev-os plugin — 11 skills, 3 agents, 3 hooks 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/yunbow/ai-dev-os-plugin-claude-code/ai-dev-os-why
Any agent
npx skills add yunbow/ai-dev-os-plugin-claude-code --skill ai-dev-os-why
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yunbow/ai-dev-os-plugin-claude-code

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ai-dev-os, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 3 agents, 3 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 346 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00057 $0.00346
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00173
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00069
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00035

Measured 5d ago against content hash 09c989124e9d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-dev-os-why 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 5d 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/ai-dev-os-why/SKILL.md · 60 lines

What it actually says

AI Dev OS "Why This Rule?" Explainer

Execution Flow

1. Parse the User's Question

Identify the relevant L3 guideline rule from the question. (e.g., "Why is any prohibited?" → the any-related rule in common/code.md)

2. Load L3 Guideline

Retrieve the relevant rule and its context.

3. Reference L2 Principles

  • Find the principle referenced by the guideline (via traceability links)
  • If no link exists, infer from content

4. Reference L1 Philosophy

Identify the philosophical value that the principle is rooted in.

5. Provide Examples

  • Concrete examples of what happens without this rule
  • Before/After code snippets

Output Format

📖 Rule: [Rule content]
📁 Source: [Guideline file]

🔗 Traceability:
  L3 Guideline → [Specific rule]
  L2 Principle  → [Supporting principle]
  L1 Philosophy → [Underlying value]

💡 Without this rule:
  [Description of specific risks or problems]

📝 Before/After:
  [Code examples]

Language

Respond in the same language as the project's CLAUDE.md file.

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. 5d ago First seen · 60 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 09c989124e9d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ai-dev-os-why is a skill published in the GitHub repository yunbow/ai-dev-os-plugin-claude-code (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 346 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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