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.
npx agentmods add commands/apiksdev/axel-core/axel-versionsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/apiksdev/axel-coreWhat 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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00016 | $0.01942 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00008 | $0.00971 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00003 | $0.00388 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00194 |
Grade A, and why
axel:versions 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 2d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 199 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AXEL Command: /axel:versions
<document type="command">
<enforcement>
<![CDATA[
⛔ VERSION CHECK RULES
- Read marketplace.json from axel-marketplace plugin
- Scan local plugins in parent directory
- Compare local vs remote (GitHub) versions
- Detect plugins not installed from marketplace
- Semantic version comparison (x.y.z)
- Handle fetch errors gracefully
⛔ MARKETPLACE INTEGRATION
- Parse axel-marketplace/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json
- Build complete plugin list from marketplace
- Check each marketplace plugin against local installation
- Show "Not installed" for missing plugins
⛔ PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION
- CRITICAL: Make ALL WebFetch calls in PARALLEL
- First collect all plugin info (local versions, repo URLs)
- Then fetch ALL remote versions at once (single message, multiple tool calls)
- Then process results and compare
- This reduces total time from 4+ seconds to ~1 second
⛔ OUTPUT FORMAT
- Table format with alignment
- Status indicators:
✅ Up-to-date (local == remote)
⚠️ Update available (local < remote)
🔄 Ahead (local > remote, dev version)
📦 Not installed (in marketplace, not local)
💡 Local only (local only, not in marketplace)
❌ Fetch failed (network error)
]]>
</enforcement>
<objective>
Check AXEL ecosystem plugin versions against marketplace and GitHub.
Compare local installations with marketplace catalog and remote versions.
</objective>
<execution flow="linear"><![CDATA[
Step 1 - Print Header:
- Print: "📦 AXEL Plugin Version Check"
- Print: ""
Step 2 - Read Marketplace Catalog:
- Read: ../axel-marketplace/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json
- IF file not found:
→ Print: "⚠️ Warning: axel-marketplace not found, checking local plugins only"
→ Set marketplace_available = false
- ELSE:
→ Parse JSON to get plugins array
→ Store marketplace plugin names and repos
→ Set marketplace_available = true
→ Print: "🌐 Marketplace catalog loaded"
Step 3 - Scan Local Plugins:
- Run: cd .. && find . -maxdepth 2 -name "plugin.json" -path "*/.claude-plugin/*" ! -path "*/axel-marketplace/*" 2>/dev/null | sort
- Store local plugin paths
- Build local plugin list with names
Step 4 - Build Combined Plugin List:
- Merge marketplace plugins + local plugins
- Remove duplicates
- For each plugin, store:
* name
* in_marketplace (true/false)
* in_local (true/false)
* local_path (if installed)
* repo_url (from marketplace or local)
Step 5 - Collect All Plugin Info (Phase 1):
FOR EACH plugin in combined list:
A) Get Local Version:
- IF plugin in_local:
→ Read: ${local_path}/plugin.json
→ Parse: name, version, repository
→ Store in array: plugins[i] = {name, local_version, repo_url, in_local, in_marketplace}
- ELSE:
→ Get repo_url from marketplace
→ Store in array: plugins[i] = {name, local_version="N/A", repo_url, in_local=false, in_marketplace=true}
B) Convert repo URL to GitHub raw:
→ https://github.com/USER/REPO → https://raw.githubusercontent.com/USER/REPO/master/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
→ Store: raw_url in plugins[i]
Step 6 - Fetch ALL Remote Versions in PARALLEL (Phase 2):
CRITICAL: Make ALL WebFetch calls in a SINGLE message
- For plugin 1: WebFetch(url=raw_url_1, prompt="Extract version")
- For plugin 2: WebFetch(url=raw_url_2, prompt="Extract version")
- For plugin 3: WebFetch(url=raw_url_3, prompt="Extract version")
- For plugin N: WebFetch(url=raw_url_N, prompt="Extract version")
- All calls execute simultaneously (~1 second total instead of N seconds)
- Store results: remote_versions array
Step 7 - Print Table Header:
- Print: "Plugin Local Remote Status"
- Print: "─────────────────────────────────────────────────────"
Step 8 - Compare and Display Results (Phase 3):
FOR EACH plugin with index i:
A) Get versions:
- local_version = plugins[i].local_version
- remote_version = remote_versions[i]
- IF remote_version fetch failed or empty:
→ Set remote_version = "N/A"
B) Determine Status:
- IF NOT in_local AND in_marketplace:
→ status = "📦 Not installed"
- ELSE IF in_local AND NOT in_marketplace:
→ status = "💡 Local only"
- ELSE IF remote_version = "N/A":
→ status = "❌ Fetch failed"
- ELSE compare versions using bash:
```bash
local_ver="${local_version}"
remote_ver="${remote_version}"
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 199 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 3171f866b1ea
axel:versions is a command published in the GitHub repository apiksdev/axel-core (7 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 1,942 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 2026-08-31.
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