hephaestus-network

hephaestus-network is a skill for Claude Code from agentlas-ai/Agentlas-OS. It costs 75 tokens per session (4,290 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workforce directory that helps Agentlas find agents and teams from your computer, your private cloud account, or the public catalogue. It keeps a selected roster tied to a specific release while a long-running goal is active.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to staff a durable goal with registered agents or teams, search local, private-cloud, and public inventories, and prepare a fixed workforce for execution.
Why use it?
It removes the need to manually search several agent sources or worry that a changing directory will alter an ongoing task. It also separates private agent listings from proof that something is publicly available.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: SessionStart hook event. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions Codex; $skill-name invocation.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is ./bin/hephaestus.

About the project

Agentlas OS is a local-first system for creating, storing, borrowing, and running specialist AI agents and temporary agent teams through supported hosts and models. It serves people who want reusable agents that remain available across computers and model workspaces, and the catalogue contains its skills, commands, hooks, agents, instructions, plugin, and rule.

agentlas-ai/Agentlas-OS · 1,103 stars · on GitHub · agentlas.cloud

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agentlas-ai/Agentlas-OS
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/agentlas-ai/agentlas-os/hephaestus-network

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,290 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original 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 5.1 $0.00075 $0.04290
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.02145
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00858
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00429

Measured 6d ago against content hash 9cde3abf0c05, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hephaestus-network 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 6d 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.

.agents/skills/hephaestus-network/SKILL.md · 356 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 356 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hephaestus Agent Workforce Network

The active host LLM staffs the task. Agentlas Core federates content menus from registered Local, owner Cloud, and public Hub inventory. No source and no deterministic layer is the decision-maker or a server-side LLM executor.

Source scopes are exact:

  • network: Local + Cloud + Hub;
  • local: registered Local packages only;
  • cloud: the signed-in owner's Cloud packages only;
  • hub: public Hub packages only.

Before an unpinned search uses the Local source, Core refreshes every active registered source folder and creates a new immutable release when its safe content snapshot changed. This is discovery freshness; a prepared or goal-bound roster remains pinned to its exact release. network reindex is a rebuildable card-cache operation and is not required to refresh a registered Local release. New folders still require explicit local-register.

Public demos and distribution proof use explicit hub scope. They must not use private Local/Cloud inventory as evidence of public availability.

Resolve the runner and sign in

Network can query owner Cloud and public Hub inventory, so establish the same saved Agentlas session before staffing:

RUNNER=""
for c in \
  "$HOME/.agentlas/runtime/current/bin/hephaestus" \
  ./bin/hephaestus
do [ -x "$c" ] && RUNNER="$c" && break; done
if [ -z "$RUNNER" ]; then
  for cache in \
    "$HOME/.claude/plugins/cache/agentlas-core-engine/hephaestus" \
    "$HOME/.codex/plugins/cache/agentlas-core-engine/hephaestus"; do
    newest="$(ls -d "$cache"/*/bin/hephaestus 2>/dev/null | sort -V | tail -1)"
    [ -n "$newest" ] && [ -x "$newest" ] && RUNNER="$newest" && break
  done
fi
if [ -n "$RUNNER" ] && [ "${HEPHAESTUS_AUTH_AUTOPOPUP:-1}" != "0" ]; then
  "$RUNNER" auth ensure --timeout 180 >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
fi

The browser opens only when no reusable local sign-in exists. In CI or another headless environment, set HEPHAESTUS_AUTH_AUTOPOPUP=0.

Required MCP sequence

First confirm the typed tool menu contains workforce.preflight_work_order and that its _meta.protocolVersion is at least 2026-08-20.1. If the tool is absent, the host is still attached to a preflight-less runtime. Do not fall back to model-authoring the strict wire WorkOrder and do not retry the same invalid call. Return the machine-readable boundary workforce_protocol_upgrade_required; let the runtime's normal verified auto-update finish, then reload the host/MCP session. An explicit hephaestus hep-update remains an operator action, never an implicit skill side effect.

Read the full file on GitHub · 356 lines

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. 6d ago First seen · 356 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 9cde3abf0c05

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hephaestus-network is a skill published in the GitHub repository agentlas-ai/Agentlas-OS (1,103 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 4,290 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.