skill

A command for viewing usage information about skills, including when they were triggered, when they were last used, and which projects used them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to view or filter telemetry by governance status, limit the number of results, and export machine-readable JSON for dashboards.
Why use it?
It makes skill usage easier to inspect instead of relying on memory or manually reviewing sessions.

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/mnott/pai/skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mnott/PAI
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 543 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 $0.00000 $0.00543
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00271
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00109
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00054

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2eae27ab9fb3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill 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.

docs/commands/skill.md · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

pai skill

Skill telemetry and (future) discovery for the self-educating skill system

Synopsis

pai skill <subcommand> [options]

Subcommands

Command Description
pai skill telemetry Show skill-invocation telemetry (triggers, last used, projects)

pai skill telemetry

Show skill-invocation telemetry (triggers, last used, projects)

Options

Option Description Default
--scope <scope> Governance scope default
--status <status> Filter by status: trial | active | archived
--limit <n> Maximum rows 50
--json Output raw JSON

Examples

# Which skills have actually been triggered, most-used first
pai skill telemetry

# Only skills still in trial (quarantined, not yet promoted)
pai skill telemetry --status trial

# Machine-readable output for dashboards
pai skill telemetry --json

See Notes/swarm/skills-self-educating.md for the full self-educating loop (discovery, sandbox trial, telemetry, adaptation).

See also

pai backup · pai clear-names · pai daemon · pai db · pai end · pai help · pai identity · pai kg · pai mcp · pai memory · pai notify · pai observation · pai obsidian · pai pause · pai project · pai projects · pai registry · pai restore · pai session · pai sessions · pai setup · pai shell-init · pai task · pai topic · pai update · pai zettel

Run pai help <area> to read any of these in the terminal.

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 55 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 2eae27ab9fb3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skill is a command published in the GitHub repository mnott/PAI (45 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 543 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 2026-08-30.