Agent skill

Sc Dirty Room

by kylesnowschwartz in kylesnowschwartz/SimpleClaude

Lift-and-shift port of a repository, library, API, protocol, or other software artifact to a different language, runtime, or platform, with the original source available as a reference.

No licenceAuto-check passedDevOps & Cloud

Install Sc Dirty Room

skills CLI
$ npx skills add kylesnowschwartz/SimpleClaude --skill sc-dirty-room -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install kylesnowschwartz/SimpleClaude sc-dirty-room --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kylesnowschwartz/SimpleClaude.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/sc-extras/skills/sc-dirty-room .claude/skills/sc-dirty-room && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
sc-dirty-room
GitHub stars
114
Token cost
~6.8k tokens
SKILL.md length
2,093 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
12
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Lift-and-shift port of a repository, library, API, protocol, or other software artifact to a different language, runtime, or platform, with the original source available as a reference.

  • Works in 7 steps: Resolve Target, Scope, and Languages → Read the Source → Refine Spec and Translation Brief → …
  • Says port from X to Y
  • SKILL.md covers EXECUTION MODEL, Phase 0: Resolve Target,…, Phase 1: Read the Source and Phase 2: Refine Spec and…, plus 4 more sections
  • Calls git, gem and npm

What it does

Sc Dirty Room is an agent skill from kylesnowschwartz/SimpleClaude. Lift-and-shift port of a repository, library, API, protocol, or other software artifact to a different language, runtime, or platform, with the original source available as a reference. This skill SHOULD be used when the user says "port from X to Y", "lift and shift", "rewrite in Go", "rewrite in Rust", "translate this codebase", "convert to TypeScript", "language migration", "rewrite in another language", "carry over the algorithms", "borrow techniques from", "dirty room", "dirty-room design", "sc-dirty-room"…

Its SKILL.md is about 6.8k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in DevOps & Cloud, covering Cloud architecture. It works with Rust and TypeScript. The repository describes itself as: Practical minimalism for AI assisted programming with Claude Code.

When your agent uses it

  • Says port from X to Y
  • Rewrite in Rust
  • Translate this codebase
  • Convert to TypeScript

Example prompts

  • “port from X to Y”
  • “lift and shift”
  • “rewrite in Go”
  • “/sc-dirty-room”

Workflow steps

7 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Resolve Target, Scope, and Languages
  2. Read the Source
  3. Refine Spec and Translation Brief
  4. Port
  5. Verify
  6. Present Results
  7. User Choice

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit abb293b. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • git
    • gem
    • npm
    • pip
    • cargo
    • curl

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use git, npm, pip and curl, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Sc Dirty Room loads about 6.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 193 tokens; SKILL.md has 2,093 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~193
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~6.8k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 2,093 words (~6,835 tokens).

“This is a bastardization of the technique used by Compaq 1982 to clone the IBM PC BIOS.”

— opening of SKILL.md by kylesnowschwartz
name
sc-dirty-room
argument-hint
[target: repo URL, local path, or artifact name] [optional: target language or scope]

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in plugins/sc-extras/skills/sc-dirty-room of kylesnowschwartz/SimpleClaude.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit abb293b

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Project MaturityKonghaYao/peri229—~1.8kAutomated safety check: NotesApache-2.0
Workflow Setupathola/claude-night-market341—~1.4kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Supercov Securitysupercorp-ai/supercov1521 repos~236Automated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about Sc Dirty Room

What does Sc Dirty Room do?

Lift-and-shift port of a repository, library, API, protocol, or other software artifact to a different language, runtime, or platform, with the original source available as a reference. Sc Dirty Room is an agent skill from kylesnowschwartz/SimpleClaude. Lift-and-shift port of a repository, library, API, protocol, or other software artifact to a different language, runtime, or platform, with the original source available as a reference.

When should I use Sc Dirty Room?

Sc Dirty Room fits situations like: says port from X to Y; rewrite in Rust; translate this codebase; convert to TypeScript.

How do I install Sc Dirty Room in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add kylesnowschwartz/SimpleClaude --skill sc-dirty-room -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/sc-extras/skills/sc-dirty-room in kylesnowschwartz/SimpleClaude) into .claude/skills/sc-dirty-room in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Sc Dirty Room in Codex?

Run `npx skills add kylesnowschwartz/SimpleClaude --skill sc-dirty-room -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/sc-extras/skills/sc-dirty-room in kylesnowschwartz/SimpleClaude) into .agents/skills/sc-dirty-room in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Sc Dirty Room in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add kylesnowschwartz/SimpleClaude --skill sc-dirty-room -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/sc-dirty-room, .gemini/skills/sc-dirty-room, .github/skills/sc-dirty-room and .opencode/skills/sc-dirty-room in your project.

What does Sc Dirty Room need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Sc Dirty Room needs the command-line tools its instructions call (git, gem, npm, pip, cargo and curl).

Does Sc Dirty Room access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use git, npm, pip and curl, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Sc Dirty Room safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Sc Dirty Room use?

No licence was found for Sc Dirty Room or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Sc Dirty Room use?

About 6.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 27k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Sc Dirty Room?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Sc Dirty Room: Logfire Instrumentation (basicmachines-co/basic-memory, 4.1k stars), Temps Plugin (gotempsh/temps, 833 stars), Project Maturity (KonghaYao/peri, 229 stars) and Workflow Setup (athola/claude-night-market, 341 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Sc Dirty Room?

kylesnowschwartz (a GitHub user) maintains it in kylesnowschwartz/SimpleClaude, which has 114 GitHub stars. The repository holds 12 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 2026.

Source: kylesnowschwartz/SimpleClaude on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.