Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add AkshitIreddy/agent-skills --skill require-external-communication-approvalgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AkshitIreddy/agent-skillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/akshitireddy/agent-skills/require-external-communication-approval)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/akshitireddy/agent-skills/require-external-communication-approval"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/akshitireddy/agent-skills/require-external-communication-approval/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/akshitireddy/agent-skills/require-external-communication-approval"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/akshitireddy/agent-skills/require-external-communication-approval.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00087 | $0.00401 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00044 | $0.00200 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00017 | $0.00080 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00040 |
Grade A, and why
require-external-communication-approval 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 10d 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.
What it actually says
Require External Communication Approval
Hard rule
Never directly send, post, or reply to another person without the user's explicit approval for that specific communication.
Require approval before:
- Posting or replying to a pull-request, review, issue, or discussion comment.
- Sending Slack, Teams, email, chat, direct messages, or similar messages.
- Submitting reviews, reactions, mentions, assignments, or reviewer requests.
- Resolving or dismissing another person's review or discussion.
Drafting text without sending it is allowed.
Do not block operational work
When otherwise authorized by the user's task, proceed without a separate communication confirmation for:
- Commits, pushes, merges, branch operations, and repository settings.
- Workflow triggers, reruns, cancellations, builds, tests, and deployments.
- Releases, infrastructure changes, and automatic bot-generated pull requests.
- Creating or updating pull requests that the user asked Codex to manage, provided Codex does not add reviewers, mentions, or follow-up comments.
Automatic service notifications caused by these operational actions do not count as Codex directly messaging another person.
Approval workflow for direct messages
- Draft the proposed communication without sending it.
- Show the user the destination, recipients, and exact text or action.
- Ask for explicit approval.
- Send only the approved communication without adding wording or recipients.
Requests to fix code, manage a pull request, or perform a deployment authorize the operational work, but do not authorize a separate human-facing reply.
What ships with it
1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 45 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A dd29a65cdf16
require-external-communication-approval is a skill published in the GitHub repository AkshitIreddy/agent-skills (1 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 401 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 2026-08-31.
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