Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to acaprino/daodan. 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/acaprino/daodan/master/.agents/skills/external-repo-intake/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/acaprino/daodanWrote 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/acaprino/daodan/external-repo-intake)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/acaprino/daodan/external-repo-intake"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/acaprino/daodan/external-repo-intake/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/acaprino/daodan/external-repo-intake"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/acaprino/daodan/external-repo-intake.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- medium Agent Snooping · line 88 Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
- medium Agent Snooping · line 103 Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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 | $0.00148 | $0.03572 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00059 | $0.01429 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00030 | $0.00714 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00015 | $0.00357 |
Grade A, and why
external-repo-intake 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 10d 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 — 195 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
External-repository intake
When the user asks to "import", "pull", "vendor", "cherry-pick", or "borrow from" an external GitHub repository (anything not already registered in the sync table of the upstream-sync skill), follow this workflow before touching any local file. This skill covers the first intake. Re-syncing repositories already registered uses the separate upstream-sync skill.
1. Classify the operation
Standing policy since 2026-08-04 forbids new vendored copies. An instruction to import or borrow content does not waive that policy. Resolve the requested capability through one of these modes before writing:
| Mode | Use | Ownership |
|---|---|---|
| Delegation | An external owner already supplies the capability | Declare its required dependency and load its canonical method; verify availability, the input/output contract and execution on the active host |
| Original local inspiration | A distinct local method is justified by workflow ideas | Write original content without copying upstream text; attribute the ideas and explain the local responsibility |
Runtime references to local plugins require [dependencies].required; local
optional dependencies and generic fallbacks for required providers are forbidden.
An unavailable provider needs an explicit recovery path for the active host.
Local source lives under plugins/<name>/; host mechanisms live in adapters/.
Native packages under exports/ and root catalogs remain generated.
Historical intake modes are retained as provenance, not options for new work:
kotlin-development used full vendoring; wshobson/agents used cherry-picking,
hybrid sections and new files. Its generic multi-agent core, reverse-engineering
vendor and e2e-testing-patterns were later delegated upstream; the latter changed
in marketplace 18.0.0, and codebase-cleanup was retired in 19.0.0.
codebase-map adopted ideas from gsd-build/get-shit-done with original content.
Preserve existing licenses, attribution, sync records and retirement history.
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.
- 10d ago Changed · +69 lines 6dac95298dc7
- 13d ago Changed · +6 lines e330f1281aff
- 14d ago Changed 22e84129284a
- 23d ago Changed 2ada5c202741
- 24d ago Changed · -4 lines · -21 tokens per session 2763c66784be
- 1mo ago Changed · +12 lines 1ffd436d4783
- 2mo ago First seen · 112 lines · 169 tokens per session scan A fa15a481b74b
external-repo-intake is a skill published in the GitHub repository acaprino/daodan (9 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 148 tokens to every session and 3,572 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.
external-repo-intake compared with skills from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| external-repo-intakeacaprino/daodan | Skill | 9 | 4d ago | MIT | A | 148 | Claude Code |
| merge-batchdiegosouzapw/OmniRoute | Skill | 83k | 6d ago | MIT | A | 46 | Claude Code |
| prowler-commitprowler-cloud/prowler | Skill | 15k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 44 | Claude Code, Codex |
| gh-auth-isolationgithub/gh-aw | Skill | 5.6k | yesterday | MIT | A | 20 | Claude Code, Codex |
| github-skillzeenie-ai/OpenCompany | Skill | 1.1k | yesterday | MIT | A | 51 | Claude Code |
| comet-githubrpamis/comet | Skill | 3.3k | yesterday | MIT | A | 72 | Claude Code, Codex |
| release-helperSahir619/fable-method | Skill | 2.3k | 1mo ago | MIT | A | 43 | Claude Code |