plastic-conventions

plastic-conventions is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zalom/plastic. It costs 61 tokens per session (529 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A shared set of instructions for the Plastic workflow. It covers how intents are linked, how work moves through stages, how agents are chosen, and how gates, locks, savepoints, and completion work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as a reference when creating or linking intents, running lifecycle stages, sizing work, choosing agents, handling gates or locks, and maintaining roadmaps.
Why use it?
It gives multiple tools and agents the same rules instead of leaving each one to interpret the workflow differently. Different chapters are read only when their topics apply.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the plastic plugin — 43 skills, 10 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server 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/zalom/plastic/conventions
Any agent
npx skills add zalom/plastic --skill conventions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zalom/plastic

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install plastic, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 43 skills, 10 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server.

Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 529 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 $0.00061 $0.00529
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00264
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00106
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00053

Measured 3d ago against content hash 092b4794c9a8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plastic-conventions 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 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.

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/conventions/SKILL.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

Plastic Conventions

The chapters below hold Plastic doctrine that more than one skill needs. Core always-on conventions stay in ~/.plastic/PLASTIC.md, which is injected at session start. Read a chapter when the trigger in the second column applies to the work in front of you.

Chapter Read it when
references/knowledge-graph.md when creating, linking, curating, or indexing intents and you need the sources-vs-chain doctrine, the tiers of influence, the ## Links projection, or branch-vs-root directory semantics
references/lifecycle-and-savepoints.md when running a lifecycle stage or a savepoint and you need the subagent report-home contract for how an insight reaches the intent
references/tiers-and-dispatch.md when sizing an intent, choosing agent models, routing to the advisor, or writing an auto-mode human report
references/gates-and-enforcement.md when a transition gate blocks you, or before using an audited escape, for the gate mechanics and the logging contract, or when naming, registering, or retiring a hook or skill
references/locks-and-worktrees.md before taking or releasing a delivery lock, and when working with claims, worktrees, solo mode, or the station ledger
references/completion-and-done.md when ending an intent, for what "intent done" means and the End-stage tail
references/maintenance-and-revisions.md before any structural maintenance edit, for WORK vs MAINTENANCE, the revisions.md move-and-record contract, the violation-tag catalog, and the context-economy measurement buckets
references/roadmaps.md when creating, ordering, closing, or consuming a roadmap, for the file format and the status-mirror rule

Other skills read these chapters directly at ../plastic-conventions/references/<chapter>.md, resolved relative to their own installed directory. All three harnesses install skills flat into one shared skills root through the same install_skills_flat call, so that path is harness-independent.

Files

What ships with it

8 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 · 32 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 092b4794c9a8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

plastic-conventions is a skill published in the GitHub repository zalom/plastic (10 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 529 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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