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 adbertram/cli-tools --skill ring-cligit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adbertram/cli-toolsWrote 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/adbertram/cli-tools/ring-cli)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/adbertram/cli-tools/ring-cli"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/adbertram/cli-tools/ring-cli/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/adbertram/cli-tools/ring-cli"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/adbertram/cli-tools/ring-cli.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 | $0.00221 | $0.01271 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00088 | $0.00508 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00044 | $0.00254 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00022 | $0.00127 |
Grade A, and why
ring-cli 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 today.
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 — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
<quick_start>
The ring CLI follows this pattern:
ring <command-group> <action> [arguments] [options]
| Common task | Command |
|---|---|
| First-time login (prompts for email, password, 2FA) | ring auth login |
| List every device on the account | ring devices list --table |
| Show battery + wifi for one device | ring devices health "Front Door" --table |
| Recent motion events on one device | ring events list --device "Front Door" --kind motion --limit 20 |
| Download the last 5 recordings | ring events download --device "Front Door" --recent 5 |
| Grab a fresh snapshot | ring snapshot get --device "Front Door" |
| Turn motion detection on/off | ring motion enable --device "Front Door" |
| Floodlight on (stickup_cams only) | ring lights on --device "Driveway" |
| Sound the siren | ring siren on --device "Driveway" --duration 30 |
| Test a chime | ring chime test --device "Downstairs" --kind ding |
| Set volume | ring volume set --device "Front Door" --value 7 |
| </quick_start> |
<essential_principles>
MANDATORY: Consult the adjacent usage.json at <cli-tools-root>/_repo/skills/<tool>-cli/usage.json before executing ANY ring command.
That file contains the full command tree (every argument, every option, every leaf usage_instruction). Do not guess flag names — read usage.json.
<command_groups>
| Group | Purpose |
|---|---|
auth |
Login (with 2FA prompt), logout, status, refresh, test. Supports profiles. |
devices |
List / get / health for doorbells, cameras, chimes, intercoms. |
events |
History (dings + motion + on-demand) — list, get, download. |
snapshot |
List snapshot-capable devices; capture fresh JPEGs. |
motion |
Toggle motion detection (enable/disable/status) per device. |
lights |
Control floodlights on stickup_cams. |
siren |
Sound / silence the siren on stickup_cams. |
chime |
Play test sounds on Ring chimes. |
volume |
Set device volume (0-10). |
cache |
Manage the local response cache. |
| </command_groups> |
<reference_index>
usage.json — Complete command tree with arguments, options, defaults, and usage_instructions for every command. Read before issuing any ring command.
</reference_index>
<success_criteria>
- Command executes without error (exit code 0)
- Output is in the requested format (JSON by default, table with --table)
- Correct command path and flags used, verified against usage.json
- No direct Ring API calls, no Ring web scraping </success_criteria>
What ships with it
1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- today First seen · 83 lines · 221 tokens per session scan A 19063b15a18c
ring-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository adbertram/cli-tools (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 221 tokens to every session and 1,271 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-11-07.
ring-cli compared with skills from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ring-cliadbertram/cli-tools | Skill | 6 | today | MIT | A | 221 | Claude Code, Codex |
| opencli-autofixjackwener/OpenCLI | Skill | 31k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 61 | Claude Code |
| surfnicobailon/surf-cli | Skill | 684 | yesterday | MIT | A | 53 | Claude Code, Codex |
| rdc-cliBANANASJIM/rdc-cli | Skill | 193 | 14d ago | MIT | A | 82 | Claude Code, Codex |
| pixiv-cli-ciFlanChanXwO/pixiv-cli | Skill | 132 | yesterday | MIT | A | 61 | Codex |
| acrawl-mcpMingye-Lu/AgenticCrawler | Skill | 15 | yesterday | MIT | A | 200 | Claude Code, Codex |
| debug-hubrexleimo/aios | Skill | 62 | yesterday | MIT | B | 66 | Claude Code, Codex |