engineering-conventions

engineering-conventions is a skill for Codex from ZaxbyHub/opencode-swarm. It costs 69 tokens per session (288 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to the project's engineering rules and design constraints. It covers areas such as plugin startup, subprocesses, portability, file containment, plan storage, tests, hooks, retries, and tool registration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before changing code that affects shared infrastructure, runtime behavior, tests, session state, safety checks, hooks, prompts, or registered tools.
Why use it?
It helps changes preserve assumptions that other parts of the project depend on. It also requires checking the repository's own instructions before editing.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions AGENTS.md.

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/zaxbyhub/opencode-swarm/engineering-conventions
Any agent
npx skills add ZaxbyHub/opencode-swarm --skill engineering-conventions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ZaxbyHub/opencode-swarm

Made for: Codex.

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.

agentmods badge for engineering-conventions

README.md
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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 288 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 5.1 $0.00069 $0.00288
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00144
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00058
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00029

Measured 6d ago against content hash a5c483991339, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

engineering-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 6d 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.

.agents/skills/engineering-conventions/SKILL.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

Engineering Conventions

Use this adapter before any change that can touch a repository invariant.

Read, in order:

  1. AGENTS.md
  2. docs/engineering-invariants.md
  3. .opencode/skills/engineering-conventions/SKILL.md

If editing agent prompt strings or escaped template text, pay attention to the "Agent prompt strings — escaping pitfalls" section, which is now carried in both the .opencode summary (item 3 above) and .claude/skills/engineering-conventions/SKILL.md.

Codex-specific execution notes:

  • Use apply_patch for manual edits.
  • Use the available shell execution tool for rg, git, build, smoke, and test commands.
  • Use the runtime's parallel-execution capability for independent file reads and searches.
  • Keep changes scoped and produce concrete invariant evidence for every touched invariant.

The source of truth is always AGENTS.md. If an imported skill conflicts with it, AGENTS.md wins.

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 6d ago First seen · 27 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A a5c483991339

Subscribe to this mod's changes

engineering-conventions is a skill published in the GitHub repository ZaxbyHub/opencode-swarm (464 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 288 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 2026-08-30.

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