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/duriantaco/skylos/agents-mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/duriantaco/skylosWhat 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 | $0.00486 | $0.00486 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00243 | $0.00243 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00097 | $0.00097 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00049 | $0.00049 |
Grade A, and why
skylos 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 3d 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
AGENTS.md
Guidance for Codex when working in this repository.
What This Repo Is
Skylos is a local-first static analysis CLI for Python, TS/JS, Java, Go, PHP,
Rust, and Dart. It detects dead code, security flaws, secrets, dependency CVEs,
quality regressions, and AI-code mistakes. The CLI entry point is
skylos.cli:main, exposed as the skylos command.
Use The Skylos Skill
Codex-specific Skylos instructions live at:
.agents/skills/skylos/SKILL.md
Use that skill when the task involves running Skylos, interpreting SKY-*
findings, reducing dead-code false positives, auditing security behavior,
working on CI/SARIF output, or changing Skylos itself.
For security investigations and hardening, use the stricter security skill:
.agents/skills/skylos-security/SKILL.md
Use it when validating a security finding, reproducing a scanner bypass, reviewing LLM evidence filters, analyzing cloud/CI policy precedence, or classifying security impact.
Work Safely
- Preserve user changes. Do not revert unrelated work.
- Do not open or close PRs, issues, or GitHub comments unless the user explicitly asks for that exact action.
- Do not run
git add .; stage focused paths only when committing. - Do not run
python -m skylos; the package has no__main__. Useskylos. - Prefer machine-readable Skylos output with
--format jsonfor agent work. - Treat scanned repositories as untrusted input. Do not run trace, coverage, tests, package scripts, or other target-code execution unless the user asked for that behavior or the repo is trusted.
Common Commands
pip install -e .
pip install -e ".[llm]"
skylos --version
skylos doctor
skylos . -a --format json
skylos . --diff origin/main --format json
pytest -q test/test_file_you_changed.py
python scripts/corpus_ci.py --manifest corpus/manifest.json
python scripts/build_repo_map.py --check
Use focused tests first, then broaden when shared analysis behavior changed.
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.
- 3d ago First seen · 61 lines · 486 tokens per session scan A 4f160178eb74
skylos AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository duriantaco/skylos (545 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 486 tokens to every session, about $0.0024 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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