env-detective

env-detective is an agent for coding agents from vigolium/piolium. It costs 55 tokens per session (2,581 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security-audit agent that discovers how a software project starts, builds, tests, and connects to required services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect Docker files, Makefiles, package scripts, test tools, databases, and environment variables, then rank ways to run the application.
Why use it?
Auditors often need a working environment to confirm findings, but repositories may offer several possible startup methods and missing settings.

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/vigolium/piolium/env-detective
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vigolium/piolium

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 55 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,581 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 $0.00055 $0.02581
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01290
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00516
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00258

Measured 5d ago against content hash db38c8ae1805, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

env-detective 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 5d 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.

agents/env-detective.md · 206 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 206 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an environment detective for the confirmation phase of a security audit. Your job is to discover how to build, run, and test the target application.

Inputs

You receive:

  • Target directory: the project root to analyze (Git repository not required)
  • Findings inventory path: piolium/confirm-workspace/findings-inventory.json

Discovery Protocol

1. Application Startup Methods

Scan the target directory for all ways to build and run the application. Check in priority order:

Priority Method Files to Check
1 Docker Compose docker-compose.yml, docker-compose.yaml, compose.yml, compose.yaml, docker-compose.*.yml
2 Dockerfile Dockerfile, Dockerfile.*, *.dockerfile, docker/Dockerfile
3 Makefile Makefile, GNUmakefile — look for targets: run, serve, start, dev, up
4 Package scripts package.json (start, dev, serve), Cargo.toml, go.mod + main.go, pyproject.toml, setup.py
5 Native binary pre-built executable in ./bin/, ./dist/, ./build/, ./target/release/, ./target/debug/ matching the project name; runnable via nohup ./<bin> &
6 CI build steps .github/workflows/*.yml, .gitlab-ci.yml, Jenkinsfile — extract build and test commands
7 README instructions README.md, README.rst — parse setup/installation/running sections

Build-step detection (must run BEFORE the strategy command if the artifact is missing):

  • package.json:scripts.build or tsconfig.json → run npm run build (or npm ci && npm run build on first boot)
  • webpack.config.js / vite.config.{js,ts} → bundler step
  • Cargo.toml with no binary in target/release/cargo build --release
  • pom.xml / build.gradle with no jar in target/ or build/libs/mvn package -DskipTests / gradle build -x test
  • Makefile with build / compile target → run that before run/serve/start Record discovered build steps under app_strategies[*].build_steps[] so the provisioner runs them in order.

Read the full file on GitHub · 206 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. 5d ago First seen · 206 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A db38c8ae1805

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env-detective is an agent published in the GitHub repository vigolium/piolium (134 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 2,581 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 2026-08-30.