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 instructions/codealive-ai/codealive-skills/agents-mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CodeAlive-AI/codealive-skillsWhat 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 | $0.00634 | $0.00634 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00317 | $0.00317 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00127 | $0.00127 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00063 | $0.00063 |
Grade A, and why
codealive-skills AGENTS.md 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 — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
codealive-skills — notes for AI coding agents
Before editing or inspecting a target path, read every applicable
AGENTS.mdfrom the repository root through the target directory. Do not load instructions from unrelated subtrees.
This repository ships two things:
- The
codealive-context-engineAgent Skill — aSKILL.mdplus a set of Python scripts (scripts/datasources.py,search.py,grep.py,fetch.py,relationships.py,chat.py). - A Claude Code plugin (
.claude-plugin/plugin.json) that bundles the skill with authentication hooks and thecodealive-context-explorersubagent.
What the skill is NOT
The skill is not an MCP wrapper and does not expose MCP tools.
It is a set of Python scripts that call the CodeAlive REST API directly
over HTTPS, using an API key resolved from the OS credential store or
the CODEALIVE_API_KEY env var.
The codealive-mcp
server is a separate product that exposes CodeAlive as MCP tools
(get_data_sources, semantic_search, grep_search,
fetch_artifacts, get_artifact_relationships). The skill and the
MCP server are parallel integration paths — either works on its own,
and both can be installed alongside each other.
Do not conflate them when writing or reviewing skill descriptions, docs, or commit messages.
Architecture in one sentence
SKILL.md is workflow/trigger metadata; the scripts under
skills/codealive-context-engine/scripts/ are the implementation; the
CodeAlive REST API is the backend. MCP is an optional sibling, not a
dependency.
Releasing
- Edit
SKILL.md, scripts, or plugin assets. - Bump
.claude-plugin/plugin.jsonversion. - Commit, then annotate a tag matching
vX.Y.Z. - Push
mainand the tag. CI (.github/workflows/ci.yml) runspytest tests -von push. - Users pick up the new version via
claude plugin update codealive@codealive-marketplaceornpx skills update.
Writing the skill description
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 · 61 lines · 634 tokens per session scan A d1ad12aaff0e
codealive-skills AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository CodeAlive-AI/codealive-skills (14 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 634 tokens to every session, about $0.0032 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.
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