Anima is an open-source local-network runtime that gives household hardware an AI layer for sensing environments, remembering preferences, planning actions, and controlling devices through adapters. It is intended for intelligent devices such as lights, air conditioners, humidifiers, air purifiers, and speakers, with a dashboard, REST API, and CLI for control and extension. The catalogue entries are skills, rules, and instructions for working with Anima.
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.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Fullive-AI/AnimaWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/rules/fullive-ai/anima/self-install-tools-and-mcp-when-necessary)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/fullive-ai/anima/self-install-tools-and-mcp-when-necessary"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/fullive-ai/anima/self-install-tools-and-mcp-when-necessary/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/fullive-ai/anima/self-install-tools-and-mcp-when-necessary"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/fullive-ai/anima/self-install-tools-and-mcp-when-necessary.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00150 | $0.00150 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00075 | $0.00075 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00030 | $0.00030 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00015 | $0.00015 |
Grade A, and why
Self-Install-Tools-And-MCP-When-Necessary 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 9d 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
If needed to complete the task, you may install required tools, dependencies, local utilities, skills, or MCP servers yourself.
Only do this when the installation is clearly necessary for progress, validation, automation, debugging, or repository workflow support.
Prefer:
- existing project tools first
- minimal, well-scoped additions
- commonly used, maintainable solutions
- setup that matches the current project and workflow
Do not install unnecessary, redundant, risky, or unrelated tools.
When installing something new:
- keep the change intentional and minimal
- document it if it affects setup, workflow, or contributor experience
- update relevant config or docs when needed
- avoid destructive or high-impact system changes unless explicitly requested
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 22 lines · 150 tokens per session scan A 4e7290791601
Self-Install-Tools-And-MCP-When-Necessary is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository Fullive-AI/Anima (1,049 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 150 tokens to every session, about $0.0007 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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