tau

tau is a skill for Claude Code from Aitherium/awdk. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,776 once invoked), scanned C, original, no licence file.

A guide for installing and running Tau, a small Python coding agent that can use a local AI model instead of a paid online API. It explains Tau's folder-based skill setup and its skill command.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install Tau, configure a local model, add skill packs, and invoke skills from the terminal.
Why use it?
It helps users run the agent with their own local model and understand setup limits, including that Tau does not use MCP, a standard for connecting agents to external tools.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is bash scripts/install-awskills.sh --target tau # ~/.tau/skills.

Part of the awsh plugin — 104 skills, 1 agent, 4 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to install Tau, configure a local model, add skill packs, and invoke skills from the terminal.

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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/Aitherium/awdk
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aitherium/awdk/tau

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install awsh, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 104 skills, 1 agent, 4 MCP servers.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,776 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00000 $0.01776
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00710
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00355
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00178

Measured yesterday against content hash 84bba22e8a79, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

tau scanned grade C with 2 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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl -LsSf https://twotimespi.dev/install.sh | sh # macOS / Linux

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -LsSf https://twotimespi.dev/install.sh | sh # macOS / Linux
adk/harnesses/claude_mod/skills/tau/SKILL.md · 163 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

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 Changed · +1 lines 84bba22e8a79
  2. 5d ago First seen · 162 lines · 0 tokens per session scan C 66104117acbb

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tau is a skill published in the GitHub repository Aitherium/awdk (11 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,776 tokens. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-02.

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