Agent skill

Clean Room Porting

by yquake2 in yquake2/yquake2remaster

Clean-room software development process for copying/porting functionality from mods with GPL-incompatible licenses.

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Install Clean Room Porting

skills CLI
$ npx skills add yquake2/yquake2remaster --skill clean-room-porting -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install yquake2/yquake2remaster clean-room-porting --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/yquake2/yquake2remaster.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/clean-room-porting .claude/skills/clean-room-porting && 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
clean-room-porting
GitHub stars
113
Token cost
~967 tokens
SKILL.md length
444 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
3
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Clean-room software development process for copying/porting functionality from mods with GPL-incompatible licenses.

  • Works in 4 steps: Scope & License Verification → Functional Specification Generation… → Clean-Room Implementation → …
  • Porting features
  • SKILL.md covers Legal & Compliance Principles and Clean-Room Porting Workflow
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Clean Room Porting is an agent skill from yquake2/yquake2remaster. Clean-room software development process for copying/porting functionality from mods with GPL-incompatible licenses. Use when porting features or code from proprietary, non-commercial, or restrictive mods into GPL-licensed projects (such as Quake II remasters) while maintaining strict legal separation via functional specifications and isolated black-box implementation.

Its SKILL.md is about 970 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: Yamagi Quake II with Q2 Remaster support.

When your agent uses it

  • Porting features
  • Code from proprietary

Example prompts

  • “/clean-room-porting”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Scope & License Verification
  2. Functional Specification Generation (Black-Box Analysis)
  3. Clean-Room Implementation
  4. Compliance & Verification Audit

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit b401f5e. 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

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

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

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    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

Clean Room Porting loads about 967 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 97 tokens; SKILL.md has 444 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~97
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~967

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

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 444 words (~967 tokens).

“This skill provides a rigorous, legally sound workflow for porting functionality, mechanics, or features from mods carrying GPL-incompatible licenses (e.g., proprietary, source-available, non-commercial, restrictive custom licenses) into a GPL-licensed codebase (such as yquake2remaster).”

— opening of SKILL.md by yquake2, Custom licence
name
clean-room-porting

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in .agents/skills/clean-room-porting of yquake2/yquake2remaster.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit b401f5e

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Clean Room Porting next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.

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Questions about Clean Room Porting

What does Clean Room Porting do?

Clean-room software development process for copying/porting functionality from mods with GPL-incompatible licenses. Clean Room Porting is an agent skill from yquake2/yquake2remaster. Clean-room software development process for copying/porting functionality from mods with GPL-incompatible licenses.

When should I use Clean Room Porting?

Clean Room Porting fits situations like: porting features; code from proprietary.

How do I install Clean Room Porting in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add yquake2/yquake2remaster --skill clean-room-porting -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/clean-room-porting in yquake2/yquake2remaster) into .claude/skills/clean-room-porting in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Clean Room Porting in Codex?

Run `npx skills add yquake2/yquake2remaster --skill clean-room-porting -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/clean-room-porting in yquake2/yquake2remaster) into .agents/skills/clean-room-porting in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Clean Room Porting 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 yquake2/yquake2remaster --skill clean-room-porting -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/clean-room-porting, .gemini/skills/clean-room-porting, .github/skills/clean-room-porting and .opencode/skills/clean-room-porting in your project.

What does Clean Room Porting need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Clean Room Porting is instructions for the agent only.

Does Clean Room Porting access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Clean Room Porting 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 Clean Room Porting use?

Clean Room Porting has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Clean Room Porting use?

About 967 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.9k 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 Clean Room Porting?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Clean Room Porting: MCP Server Builder (anthropics/skills, 180k stars), Vercel Composition Patterns (supabase/supabase, 111k stars), Finishing a Development Branch (obra/superpowers, 297k stars) and Agent Browser CLI (vercel-labs/agent-browser, 44k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Clean Room Porting?

yquake2 (a GitHub organization) maintains it in yquake2/yquake2remaster, which has 113 GitHub stars. The repository holds 3 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

Source: yquake2/yquake2remaster on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.