example-command

A sample slash command shows how a coding agent can accept arguments and follow instructions written in a Markdown file. It also documents command settings such as the help text, argument hint, approved tools, and model choice.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as a reference when creating a command such as `/example-command my-argument`, reading its arguments, choosing allowed tools, or moving to the newer skills directory format.
Why use it?
It gives plugin authors a concrete example of the older command-file format and its settings. This helps them understand how to structure and test their own commands.

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/codecast-sh/codecast/example-command
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/codecast-sh/codecast
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 284 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 $0.00014 $0.00284
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00142
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00057
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00028

Measured yesterday against content hash 809f5b818fce, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

example-command 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

packages/cli/src/capabilities/__fixtures__/manifests/plugins/example-plugin/commands/example-command.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

Example Command (Legacy commands/ Format)

Note: This demonstrates the legacy commands/*.md layout. For new plugins, prefer the skills/<name>/SKILL.md directory format (see skills/example-command/SKILL.md in this plugin). Both are loaded identically — the only difference is file layout.

This command demonstrates slash command structure and frontmatter options.

Arguments

The user invoked this command with: $ARGUMENTS

Instructions

When this command is invoked:

  1. Parse the arguments provided by the user
  2. Perform the requested action using allowed tools
  3. Report results back to the user

Frontmatter Options Reference

Commands support these frontmatter fields:

  • description: Short description shown in /help
  • argument-hint: Hints for command arguments shown to user
  • allowed-tools: Pre-approved tools for this command (reduces permission prompts)
  • model: Override the model (e.g., "haiku", "sonnet", "opus")

Example Usage

/example-command my-argument
/example-command arg1 arg2
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 · 40 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 809f5b818fce

Subscribe to this mod's changes

example-command is a command published in the GitHub repository codecast-sh/codecast (30 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 284 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 2026-08-30.