Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to AaronCarney/pass-the-baton. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AaronCarney/pass-the-baton/main/.claude/skills/baton/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AaronCarney/pass-the-batonWrote 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/aaroncarney/pass-the-baton/baton)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/aaroncarney/pass-the-baton/baton"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aaroncarney/pass-the-baton/baton/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/aaroncarney/pass-the-baton/baton"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aaroncarney/pass-the-baton/baton.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 | $0.00024 | $0.01742 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00012 | $0.00871 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00005 | $0.00348 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00174 |
Grade A, and why
baton scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
/baton - Configuration Dashboard
When installed as a plugin the command is namespaced: /pass-the-baton:baton. The bare /baton form is available only via the manual install.sh project-local install.
When to Use
- See the current Pass the Baton config (
/batonor/baton show) - Change a config value (
/baton set key=value) - Switch progress-file template (
/baton set template=factory) - Point the user at the interactive dashboard (
tools/baton-dashboard.sh tui) - it needs a real terminal, so hand them the command rather than running it yourself
Process
Show mode (default)
bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}/tools/baton-dashboard.sh" show
Prints current global keys + active template's template_version. Does not modify anything.
Set mode
bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}/tools/baton-dashboard.sh" set <key>=<value> [<key2>=<value2> ...]
Valid keys. show lists them grouped by category, and reads each with
env-var > config.json > default precedence (lib/config.sh).
[Existing]
| Key | Validation | Example |
|---|---|---|
template |
One of: free, task, factory, or a custom template installed at $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/baton/templates/<name>.md |
template=factory |
threshold_pct |
Integer 1-99 | threshold_pct=35 |
display_name |
Free-form string | display_name=myproject |
templates_dir |
Free-form path | templates_dir=/path/to/templates |
project_context_file |
Path relative to project root | project_context_file=.baton-project/project-context.json |
max_terminals_per_workstream |
Non-negative integer | max_terminals_per_workstream=4 |
auto_continue_mode |
One of: off, tmux, relaunch (selects the baton launcher's auto-continue driver) |
auto_continue_mode=relaunch |
launch_alias |
Alias name matching [A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_-]*, not a shell builtin/keyword or a name already on PATH; writes/rewrites the alias <name>='bash <repo>/tools/baton-run.sh' rc block |
launch_alias=baton |
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 · 119 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 5c05bbbd08c3
baton is a skill published in the GitHub repository AaronCarney/pass-the-baton (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 1,742 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.
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