Shell Execution

Shell Execution is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from agentic-in/elephant-agent. It costs 21 tokens per session (173 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A way to run shell commands with clear limits and a record tied to the current workspace task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to execute explicit shell tasks while working with files and tools in the workspace.
Why use it?
It makes command-line work easier to follow and helps keep operations scoped to the project.

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/agentic-in/elephant-agent/shell-execution
Any agent
npx skills add agentic-in/elephant-agent --skill shell-execution
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agentic-in/elephant-agent

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 Shell Execution

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/agentic-in/elephant-agent/shell-execution.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/agentic-in/elephant-agent/shell-execution)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/agentic-in/elephant-agent/shell-execution"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/agentic-in/elephant-agent/shell-execution.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 173 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 $0.00021 $0.00173
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00086
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00035
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00017

Measured yesterday against content hash 34cf72ba3f4e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Shell Execution 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 yesterday.

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.

packages/skills/builtin_packages/runtime/shell-execution/SKILL.md · 22 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. yesterday First seen · 22 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 34cf72ba3f4e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Shell Execution is a skill published in the GitHub repository agentic-in/elephant-agent (582 stars, last pushed 8d ago), with no licence file. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 173 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 2026-09-03.

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