install-beacon

install-beacon is a command for coding agents from chris-peterson/beacon. It costs 18 tokens per session (225 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that installs or refreshes Beacon's wrapper, shell completions, status line, and iTerm2 profiles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during initial setup or whenever Beacon reports that its installed version or supporting configuration needs refreshing.
Why use it?
It brings the local Beacon setup back in sync when files or settings have become outdated.

Command

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the beacon plugin — 2 commands, 8 hooks shipped together

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/chris-peterson/beacon/install-beacon
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chris-peterson/beacon

Or install beacon, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 commands, 8 hooks.

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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Per session 18 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 225 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 $0.00018 $0.00225
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00112
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00045
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00022

Measured 5d ago against content hash d51d1d561ada, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

install-beacon 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.

commands/install-beacon.md · 20 lines

What it actually says

Run beacon's install bootstrap, then report its output as-is — one line if every step was already current. Do no other work.

python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/beacon" install ${ARGUMENTS}

Every step is idempotent, so re-running it is the normal way to recover from drift — the SessionStart freshness hook nudges you here when beacon --version falls behind the plugin.

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 · 20 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A d51d1d561ada

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install-beacon is a command published in the GitHub repository chris-peterson/beacon (1 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 225 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.