Getting it into your agent
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Lzy599775/agent-auto-sci-skillsnpx agentmods add commands/lzy599775/agent-auto-sci-skills/ars-mark-readWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/commands/lzy599775/agent-auto-sci-skills/ars-mark-read)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/lzy599775/agent-auto-sci-skills/ars-mark-read"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/lzy599775/agent-auto-sci-skills/ars-mark-read/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/lzy599775/agent-auto-sci-skills/ars-mark-read"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/lzy599775/agent-auto-sci-skills/ars-mark-read.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00023 | $0.00567 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00227 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00113 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00057 |
Grade A, and why
ars-mark-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 1mo 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.
What it actually says
Record the user's USER_ATTESTED_READ declaration for the source(s) backing the named citation key(s). This is a user statement, not independent evidence that a person read or understood the source. A finalizer may promote <!--ref:slug LOW-WARN--> to <!--ref:slug ok--> only when the declared scope covers that citation's anchor. Per v3.6.8 spec §3.6, the signal is stored in a session-scoped peer file <passport-stem>_human_read_log.yaml next to the active Material Passport; literature_corpus[] is adapter-owned and is NEVER mutated to carry reading state.
The dispatching agent substitutes <path> below with the active Material Passport path from session context before executing (the quoting is preserved so paths containing spaces remain a single argument). The CLI handles validation (citation_key must exist in literature_corpus[]; on miss emit [ARS-MARK-READ ERROR: citation_key '<slug>' not in literature_corpus[]] and refuse to write), 4 fail-fast environment checks (no active passport / passport not found / parent unreadable / read-log unwritable), and append-only write per §3.6 firm rule 3.
Read scope is required for every new mark (#738; declaration-only — pass through whatever the user states, never infer): --scope {full_text,sections,abstract_only,toc_only,unknown} records the declared coverage; --locator "<text>" (repeatable, requires --scope sections) names the read sections/pages; --note "<text>" free text (requires --scope). Use --scope unknown when the user cannot specify coverage. Missing scope is accepted only in legacy ledger records. Explicit unknown and legacy missing scope remain coverage_unknown; they acknowledge the declaration but can never promote an anchored citation to ok. Page coverage requires an explicit page, p., or pp. locator—bare numbers and section <n> never count as page ranges. The deterministic resolver in scripts/human_read_attestation_resolver.py strictly validates the current ledger and computes a transient routing decision on every finalizer pass; its output is not a persisted audit receipt.
Implementation:
python3 scripts/ars_mark_read.py $ARGUMENTS --passport-path "<path>"
Mode reference: docs/design/2026-04-30-ars-v3.6.8-trust-provenance-and-drift-transparency-spec.md §3.6 + Step 7.
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.
- 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines · +7 tokens per session 1272790ecd5a
- 1mo ago First seen · 18 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 94f595fec191
ars-mark-read is a command published in the GitHub repository Lzy599775/agent-auto-sci-skills (2 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 567 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.
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