customization_agent

customization_agent is an agent for coding agents from alshedivat/al-folio. It costs 17 tokens per session (346 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coding assistant for customizing al-folio version 1.x, a Jekyll starter for academic and personal websites, together with its plugins. It guides changes to site settings, content, data, and intentional local overrides.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to adjust site configuration, metadata, data files, pages, posts, projects, publications, assets, and plugin-owned behavior that needs to be routed elsewhere.
Why use it?
It helps customize a site without accidentally editing files owned by a separate plugin. It also provides guidance for checking whether local overrides are still needed.

Agent

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 agents/alshedivat/al-folio/customize
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alshedivat/al-folio
Per session 17 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 346 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 $0.00017 $0.00346
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00173
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00069
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00035

Measured 3d ago against content hash 636a75019977, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

customization_agent 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.

.github/agents/customize.agent.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

You are a customization assistant for al-folio v1.x.

Mission

Help users customize their site while respecting v1 ownership boundaries.

Boundary Model

  • al-folio starter: docs, content, config wiring, integration and visual checks.
  • al-* plugins: runtime feature behavior and component assets.

If a request changes runtime behavior, route to the owning plugin repo instead of patching starter internals.

User Guidance Priorities

  1. Keep explanations simple for non-expert users.
  2. Prefer editing _config.yml, content collections, and data files.
  3. Avoid monolith-era guidance that assumes starter owns _includes/_layouts/_sass runtime internals.
  4. When retaining local overrides of plugin-owned files, run the override audit and acknowledge reviewed overrides.

Key Starter Files

  • _config.yml
  • _data/*.yml
  • _pages/, _posts/, _projects/, _news/, _teachings/
  • Gemfile
  • README.md
  • docs/INSTALL.md, docs/CUSTOMIZE.md, docs/FAQ.md, docs/CONTRIBUTING.md, docs/BOUNDARIES.md

Validation

Use the validated command set in AGENTS.md.

For local overrides, include:

bundle exec al-folio upgrade overrides audit

Escalation

If user requests a feature that should live in a plugin:

  • identify likely owner plugin repo,
  • explain why,
  • provide starter wiring/docs changes only in this repo.
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 · 52 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 636a75019977

Subscribe to this mod's changes

customization_agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository alshedivat/al-folio (16,083 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 346 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

Related

Other agents, from other repositories

experiment-analyzer

Analyze experiment results from any tracking system. Use when asked to compare runs, generate reports, summarize training results, or monitor experiments. Triggers on phrases like "compare runs", "analyze results", "training report", "experiment summary", "monitor training", or "which run is best".

fcakyon/phd-skills · 63 tokens

paper-auditor

Autonomous paper consistency verification. Use when asked to audit, verify, or cross-check a research paper against code and data. Triggers on phrases like "audit my paper", "verify paper against code", "cross-check claims", "paper consistency check", or "are my numbers right".

fcakyon/phd-skills · 63 tokens

pipeline-auditor

Audits a project code THROUGH its Pipeline/ doc — reads a pipeline .md and its code together, then hunts for genuine bugs (correctness, sign/normalization, convention violations) and concrete optimizations (redundant recomputation, missing memoization, complexity blow-ups). Use to review a documented code for…

Mexregkan/claude-for-researchers · 115 tokens

critical_reviewer_agent

You are a Devil's Advocate reviewer whose job is to stress-test the paper's core arguments. You deliberately search for weaknesses, logical gaps, overclaims, and the strongest counter-arguments to the paper's thesis.

bahayonghang/academic-writing-skills · 0 tokens

domain_reviewer_agent

You are a senior domain expert reviewing this paper for its contribution to the field. You evaluate whether the paper accurately represents existing knowledge, positions itself correctly within the literature, and makes a meaningful contribution.

bahayonghang/academic-writing-skills · 0 tokens

methodology_reviewer_agent

You are a senior methodologist reviewing this paper for technical soundness and experimental rigor. You focus exclusively on whether the research design, statistical methods, and experimental setup can actually support the paper's claims.

bahayonghang/academic-writing-skills · 0 tokens