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 skills/abilityai/abilities/search-filesnpx skills add Abilityai/abilities --skill search-filesgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abilityai/abilitiesWhat 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 | $0.00014 | $0.00264 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00132 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00003 | $0.00053 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00001 | $0.00026 |
Grade A, and why
search-files 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.
What it actually says
Search Files
Search the file index for files matching the given pattern.
Arguments
$ARGUMENTS - The search term (filename pattern, extension, or keyword)
Step 1: Load Index
Read memory/file_index.md to search within indexed files.
Step 2: Search Strategy
Based on the search term:
If extension search (e.g., ".py", ".md"):
- Filter index for files with that extension
- Report count and list
If filename pattern (e.g., "config", "test"):
- Search index for matching filenames
- Use Glob for verification if needed
If directory search (e.g., "src/", "tests/"):
- Filter index to show that directory's contents
Step 3: Report Results
Output:
- Number of matches found
- List of matching files with paths
- Sizes if available from index
If no matches in index, suggest:
- Running
/refresh-indexif index might be stale - Using Glob directly for real-time search
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 · 46 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A c47bb10cd3c8
search-files is a skill published in the GitHub repository Abilityai/abilities (11 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 264 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 2026-08-30.
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