file.read

A Cerb automation command for reading a selected range of bytes from an attachment or an automation resource record.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when an automation needs to read a resource by URI, with options for offsets, byte lengths, split lengths, filters, or password-protected content.
Why use it?
It lets an automation read large or partial file content without loading the entire file at once.

Command

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 commands/cerb/cerb.github.io/file.read
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cerb/cerb.github.io
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,230 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00000 $0.01230
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00615
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00246
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00123

Measured yesterday against content hash 7895397585dd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

file.read 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 yesterday.

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.

_docs/automations/commands/file.read.md · 178 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. yesterday First seen · 178 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 7895397585dd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

file.read is a command published in the GitHub repository cerb/cerb.github.io (2 stars, last pushed 9d ago), with no licence file. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,230 tokens. 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.