disallow-alpha-write

disallow-alpha-write is an agent for coding agents from tintinweb/pi-subagents. It costs 14 tokens per session (97 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

An end-to-end test case for an agent configuration that allows one extension tool but blocks another.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for testing tool allowlists and denylists when extensions register multiple tools.
Why use it?
It verifies that explicitly denied tools stay unavailable even when an extension selector would otherwise enable them.

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/tintinweb/pi-subagents/disallow-alpha-write
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tintinweb/pi-subagents

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 disallow-alpha-write

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 14 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 97 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00014 $0.00097
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00048
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00019
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00010

Measured 4d ago against content hash 793582d8200f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

disallow-alpha-write scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 4d 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.

Unrestricted tool accessmediumExcessive agency

A wildcard tool grant or "run any command" leaves no least-privilege boundary at all.

tools: "*, ext:ext-alpha.mjs"
test/fixtures/.pi/agents/disallow-alpha-write.md · 11 lines

What it actually says

e2e template: disallowed_tools removes an extension tool even when the ext: selector would otherwise surface it.

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. 4d ago First seen · 11 lines · 14 tokens per session scan B 793582d8200f

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disallow-alpha-write is an agent published in the GitHub repository tintinweb/pi-subagents (1,047 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 97 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (unrestricted tool access). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.