host-file-editing

host-file-editing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from agent0ai/agent-zero. It costs 60 tokens per session (548 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide for safely reading, writing, and patching files on a computer connected through the A0 CLI host.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect, change, or apply targeted edits to local files and other files explicitly stored on the connected host.
Why use it?
It helps keep edits aimed at the user's computer files rather than files inside the Docker or server environment.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/agent0ai/agent-zero/host-file-editing
Any agent
npx skills add agent0ai/agent-zero --skill host-file-editing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agent0ai/agent-zero

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for host-file-editing

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/agent0ai/agent-zero/host-file-editing.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/agent0ai/agent-zero/host-file-editing)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/agent0ai/agent-zero/host-file-editing"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/agent0ai/agent-zero/host-file-editing.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 548 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00060 $0.00548
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00274
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00110
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00055

Measured 4d ago against content hash 2cb9716e76b8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

host-file-editing 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 4d 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.

plugins/_a0_connector/skills/host-file-editing/SKILL.md · 43 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Changes

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.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 43 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 2cb9716e76b8

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host-file-editing is a skill published in the GitHub repository agent0ai/agent-zero (19,028 stars, last pushed 7d ago), with no licence file. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 548 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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