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.
npx agentmods add commands/openclaw/crabbox/opengit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/openclaw/crabboxWhat 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 | $0.00000 | $0.00958 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00479 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00192 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00096 |
Grade A, and why
open 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
open
crabbox open prepares an existing SSH-capable lease for an external editor.
Select the editor with --editor; Crabbox prints its connection details and
remote folder, then keeps the lease active until you press Ctrl-C.
Zed Remote Projects is the first supported editor:
crabbox run --id swift-crab --sync-only
crabbox open --editor=zed --id swift-crab
The default output separates the SSH command and remote folder into labeled,
copyable blocks. In Zed, open Remote Projects, select Connect New Server,
paste the SSH command, and open the remote folder. Keep crabbox open running
for the duration of the editor session.
Automation and agents
Use --json when another process needs to consume the handoff:
crabbox open --editor=zed --id swift-crab --json
Crabbox writes one newline-terminated JSON object to stdout and then remains in
the foreground to maintain lease activity. Diagnostics and workspace notices
continue to use stderr, so stdout stays machine-readable. An agent can start the
command as a child process, decode the first JSON object, use sshCommand and
remoteFolder, and keep the child running until the editor session ends.
The versioned crabbox/editor-handoff/v1 object includes:
editoranddisplayNameleaseId,sshCommand, andremoteFolderhydratedByActionsleaseActivity, which isforegroundhardTTLAppliesreleaseCommand, when the lease has an id
releaseCommand carries the effective non-secret provider and routing flags,
so it remains usable when the handoff overrides repository configuration.
Why the command stays running
External editors open their own SSH processes after a connection is added.
Those processes do not send Crabbox lease heartbeats. While crabbox open is
running, Crabbox keeps coordinator-backed leases heartbeating and marks
direct-provider leases running or ready where the provider supports lease
touches.
Managed leases with a resolved expiry keep their configured hard TTL while the command is running. Static SSH targets have no Crabbox-enforced hard TTL.
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 100 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A a4b6526cc19c
open is a command published in the GitHub repository openclaw/crabbox (1,343 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 958 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.
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