configure

configure is a skill for Claude Code from ai-screams/Howl. It costs 12 tokens per session (1,317 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

An interactive guide for choosing how Howl displays information in a statusline, the text panel shown during work. It offers presets ranging from a minimal view to displays focused on coding or costs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to select a Howl statusline preset and see a preview of the selected layout.
Why use it?
It helps users choose how much model, context, time, account, Git, change, cache, quota, and cost information appears without editing the display manually.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; names the AskUserQuestion tool; positional $N argument.

Part of the howl plugin — 4 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to select a Howl statusline preset and see a preview of the selected layout.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ai-screams/howl/configure
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.

Any agent
npx skills add ai-screams/Howl --skill configure
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ai-screams/Howl

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install howl, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 1 hook.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 12 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,317 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00012 $0.01317
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00659
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00263
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00132

Measured 9d ago against content hash db3d7bae61c8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

configure scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 9d 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

cat > ~/.claude/hud/config.json << 'EOF'
skills/configure/SKILL.md · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Howl Configure

Help the user choose a display preset for their Howl statusline HUD.

Available Presets

Preset Lines Best For Displays
full 2-4 Complete visibility All metrics (default)
minimal 1 Clean workspace Model + Context + Cost + Duration
developer 2 Coding focus + Account + Git + Changes + Cache + Vim
cost-focused 2 Budget tracking + Quota + API Wait + Cost Velocity

Process

  1. Use the AskUserQuestion tool to present preset choices as an interactive UI:

    • Question: "Which Howl statusline preset would you like to use?"
    • Header: "Display Preset"
    • Options (4):
      • Label: "full (default)" | Description: "Complete visibility - All metrics (2-4 lines)"
      • Label: "minimal" | Description: "Clean workspace - Model + Context + Cost + Duration only (1 line)"
      • Label: "developer" | Description: "Coding focus - Add Account, Git, Changes, Cache, Vim (2 lines)"
      • Label: "cost-focused" | Description: "Budget tracking - Add Quota, API Wait, Cost Velocity (2 lines)"
  2. Show a preview of their chosen preset:

    minimal:

    [Sonnet 4.5] | ████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 21% (210K/1M) | $32.7 | 2h46m
    

    developer:

    [Sonnet 4.5] | ████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 21% (210K/1M) | $32.7 | 2h46m
    [email protected] | main* | +2.7K/-120 | Cache:96% | I
    

    cost-focused:

    [Sonnet 4.5] | ████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 21% (210K/1M) | $32.7 | 2h46m
    $0.19/m | Wait:41% | (2h)5h: 55%/42% :7d(3d6h)
    

    full:

    [Sonnet 4.5] | ████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 21% (210K/1M) | $32.7 | 2h46m
    [email protected] | main* | +2.7K/-120 | (2h)5h: 55%/42% :7d(3d6h)
    Read(9) Bash(8) TaskCreate(4) | ▶researcher,tester
    Cache:96% | Wait:41% | Cost:$0.19/m | I | @code-wri
    

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 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. 9d ago First seen · 137 lines · 12 tokens per session scan B db3d7bae61c8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

configure is a skill published in the GitHub repository ai-screams/Howl (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 1,317 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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