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/agent-ecosystem/skill-validator/allowed-dirs-skillnpx skills add agent-ecosystem/skill-validator --skill allowed-dirs-skillgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agent-ecosystem/skill-validatorWhat 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 | $0.00018 | $0.00181 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00090 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00004 | $0.00036 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00018 |
Grade A, and why
allowed-dirs-skill 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 3d 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.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- allowed-dirs-skill — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
What it actually says
Allowed Dirs Skill
This skill demonstrates using non-standard directories alongside the
standard skill structure. The evals/ and testing/ directories are
development artifacts that require --allow-dirs to suppress warnings.
Usage
Follow the instructions in the reference guide to get started.
Run scripts/validate.sh to check your work.
Notes
The evals/ directory contains evaluation test cases and the testing/ directory contains integration test fixtures. Neither is part of the standard skill structure, but both are useful during development.
What ships with it
5 files 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.
- 3d ago First seen · 29 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 5facb23c2b5b
allowed-dirs-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository agent-ecosystem/skill-validator (236 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 181 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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