tools

A command that shows which external developer tools are available to a repository and can install missing ones.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for checking tool status, installing missing tools interactively or automatically, and producing machine-readable status for continuous-integration scripts.
Why use it?
It removes the need to identify and install scanners, linters, and other tools manually when a report says one is unavailable.

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/vyuh-labs/dxkit/tools
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vyuh-labs/dxkit
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 860 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 $0.00860
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00430
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00172
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00086

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7cca39e6a83e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tools 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/tools.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

vyuh-dxkit tools

Run as: vyuh-dxkit <cmd> after npm install -g @vyuhlabs/dxkit, or npx @vyuhlabs/dxkit <cmd> for one-shot use. Examples on this page use the short form.

List + install all external tools dxkit knows how to drive. The go-to command when a report says something is "unavailable."

Usage

vyuh-dxkit tools             # list status of all tools relevant to this repo
vyuh-dxkit tools install     # install missing tools (interactive)

Options

Option Effect
--all Install ALL tools across every language pack (not just the active stack)
--yes Skip confirmation prompts before each install
--json Stdout JSON (tool status, suitable for CI scripts)

Tool layers

DXKit organizes external tools in layers:

  • Layer 1 (universal): required regardless of stack — cloc, gitleaks, semgrep, jscpd, graphify.
  • Layer 2 (per-language): activated only when the corresponding pack is detected. eslint for TypeScript, ruff for Python, govulncheck for Go, etc.
  • Optional: quality-of-life enhancers (osv-scanner-fix, the EPSS/KEV enrichment endpoints, etc.). Missing-but-optional shows as a warning, not a hard error.

Listing

vyuh-dxkit tools

Output:

LAYER 1 (universal — always required):
  ✓ cloc           1.96      (/opt/homebrew/bin/cloc)
  ✓ gitleaks       8.18.4    (/opt/homebrew/bin/gitleaks)
  ✓ semgrep        1.78.0    (/opt/homebrew/bin/semgrep)
  ✓ jscpd          4.0.5     (~/.local/bin/jscpd)
  ✓ graphify       0.5.0     (~/.cache/dxkit/tools-venv/bin/graphify)

LAYER 2 (typescript pack active):
  ✓ eslint         8.57.0    (./node_modules/.bin/eslint)
  ✓ npm-audit      built-in
  ✓ license-checker  built-in (npx)

LAYER 2 (python pack active):
  ✗ ruff           not found
  ✗ pip-audit      not found
  ✗ pip-licenses   not found

OPTIONAL:
  ✓ osv-scanner    1.7.4
  ✓ osv-scanner-fix  1.7.4

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 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 · 103 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 7cca39e6a83e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tools is a command published in the GitHub repository vyuh-labs/dxkit (10 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 860 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 2026-08-31.