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 skills add 0xatd/cheaptokens-skills --skill venice-charactersgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/0xatd/cheaptokens-skillsWrote 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/skills/0xatd/cheaptokens-skills/venice-characters)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/0xatd/cheaptokens-skills/venice-characters"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/0xatd/cheaptokens-skills/venice-characters/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/skills/0xatd/cheaptokens-skills/venice-characters"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/0xatd/cheaptokens-skills/venice-characters.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 | $0.00064 | $0.01797 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00032 | $0.00898 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00013 | $0.00359 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00180 |
Grade A, and why
venice-characters scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 11d 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.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
curl "https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/characters?search=philosopher&sortBy=highestRating&limit=20" \ This is a copy
100% identical to venice-characters — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 185 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Venice Characters
Characters are published personas on Venice — each one bundles a system prompt, a backing model, optional web access, and metadata (tags, ratings, adult flag). You apply a character to any chat by passing its slug via venice_parameters.character_slug.
Use when
- You want to build a character-selection UI or discovery surface.
- You want to ship an app with a preset persona (e.g. a coding coach, a philosopher, a game NPC).
- You need to adapt a character's underlying model (
modelId) to match your capability requirements.
Three endpoints, all under Preview (API may change):
| Endpoint | Purpose |
|---|---|
GET /characters |
Browse/search/filter the catalog. |
GET /characters/{slug} |
Fetch one character. |
GET /characters/{slug}/reviews |
Paginated public reviews. |
All three endpoints require authentication (Bearer API key or x402 SIWE) — see venice-auth. There is no unauthenticated public endpoint.
GET /characters
curl "https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/characters?search=philosopher&sortBy=highestRating&limit=20" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $VENICE_API_KEY"
Query parameters
| Param | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
search |
string, ≤ 200 | Name, description, or tag match. Hashtag (#Philosophy) supported. |
categories |
string[], ≤ 20 | Repeat or comma-separate. Character categories (roleplay, philosophy, …). |
tags |
string[], ≤ 20 | Repeat or comma-separate. |
modelId |
string[], ≤ 20 | Filter by backing model (zai-org-glm-5-1, kimi-k2-6, minimax-m25, …). |
isAdult |
"true" / "false" |
Adult-content flag. |
isPro |
"true" / "false" |
Require a Pro model. |
isWebEnabled |
"true" / "false" |
Allow web access. |
sortBy |
enum | featured, highestRating, highlyRated, highlyRatedAndRecent, imports, mostRecent, ratingCount. |
sortOrder |
asc / desc |
Default desc. |
limit |
1–100 | Default 50. |
offset |
integer | Pagination offset. |
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 185 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A e7bbc80112ab
venice-characters is a skill published in the GitHub repository 0xatd/cheaptokens-skills (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 1,797 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 100% identical to venice-characters, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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