scaffold-pipeline

scaffold-pipeline is a skill for Claude Code from zigrivers/scaffold. It costs 54 tokens per session (3,749 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference guide for the scaffold project's software-development pipeline. It documents the phases, their order, and the dependencies between them, rather than reporting current progress.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to answer questions about scaffold pipeline design, phase ordering, dependency rules, available commands, and whether a phase is optional.
Why use it?
It helps agents choose valid pipeline steps and avoid running a phase before the work it depends on is ready.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the scaffold plugin — 5 skills, 1 hook 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/zigrivers/scaffold/scaffold-pipeline
Any agent
npx skills add zigrivers/scaffold --skill scaffold-pipeline
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zigrivers/scaffold

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install scaffold, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,749 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 $0.00054 $0.03749
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.01875
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00750
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00375

Measured 6d ago against content hash 65c54a1d3bff, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scaffold-pipeline 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.

content/agent-skills/scaffold-pipeline/SKILL.md · 223 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 223 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scaffold Pipeline Reference

This skill is a static reference for pipeline ordering and dependency constraints. It does NOT handle status checks, progress queries, or navigation.

Activation boundary: If the user asks "where am I?", "what's next?", "pipeline status", or anything about their current progress → do not use this skill. The scaffold-runner skill handles all status/navigation via the scaffold CLI.

Use this skill ONLY when the user asks about:

  • Pipeline design: "what phases are there?", "what's the ordering?"
  • Dependency rules: "what depends on what?", "can I run X before Y?"
  • Step reference: "what commands are in phase 3?", "is design-system optional?"

Run scaffold guides pipeline for the full phase/dependency reference (add --markdown for the plain-text body), and scaffold next to see which steps are eligible right now.

Phases

16 phases, each with a slug (used in frontmatter) and display name. Canonical source: src/types/frontmatter.ts PHASES constant.

# Slug Display Name Description
0 vision Product Vision Transforms your idea into a strategic vision document covering who it's for, what makes it different, and what success looks like.
1 pre Product Definition Translates your vision into a PRD with features, personas, and success criteria, then breaks it into user stories with testable acceptance criteria.
2 foundation Project Foundation Researches and documents technology choices, creates coding standards with linter configs, defines testing strategy, and designs directory layout.
3 environment Development Environment Sets up local dev environment, design system (web only), git workflow with CI and worktrees, automated PR review, and AI memory persistence.
4 integration Testing Integration Auto-detects platform and configures E2E testing — Playwright for web, Maestro for mobile. Skips for backend-only.
5 modeling Domain Modeling Identifies core concepts (entities, relationships, invariants, events) and establishes a shared vocabulary across all docs and code.
6 decisions Architecture Decisions Documents every significant design decision with alternatives and consequences, so future contributors know why.
7 architecture System Architecture Designs the system blueprint — components, data flows, module structure, and extension points.
8 specification Specifications Creates interface specs: database schema with constraints, API contracts with error codes, UX flows with accessibility. Each conditional.
9 quality Quality Gates Reviews testing, generates test skeletons, creates eval checks, designs deployment pipeline, and conducts security review.
10 parity Platform Parity Audits documentation for platform-specific gaps. Skips for single-platform projects.
11 consolidation Consolidation Optimizes {{INSTRUCTIONS_FILE}} under 200 lines and audits all workflow docs for consistency.
12 planning Planning Decomposes stories into concrete tasks scoped to ~150 lines and 3 files max, with clear acceptance criteria.
13 validation Validation Seven cross-cutting audits: scope creep, dependency cycles, implementability, traceability, naming drift, broken handoffs, decision completeness.
14 finalization Finalization Applies validation findings, freezes docs, creates onboarding guide, and writes the implementation playbook.
15 build Build Stateless TDD execution: single/multi-agent modes, session resume, quick tasks, and new feature enhancements.

Read the full file on GitHub · 223 lines

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 · 223 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 65c54a1d3bff

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scaffold-pipeline is a skill published in the GitHub repository zigrivers/scaffold (5 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 3,749 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.