profiles

A phren tool for assigning projects to named profiles and machines. Each profile is a YAML file listing which projects should appear on a machine.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create profiles, add or move projects, inspect profile contents, and choose which profile each machine uses.
Why use it?
It keeps work and personal projects separated across multiple computers. It avoids showing every synced project on every machine.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the phren plugin — 10 skills shipped together

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/alaarab/phren/profiles
Any agent
npx skills add alaarab/phren --skill profiles
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alaarab/phren

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install phren, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 825 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 95% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00015 $0.00825
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00413
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00165
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00082

Measured 2d ago against content hash a3eca61b6808, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

profiles 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 2d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

95% identical to phren-profiles — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

packages/cli/skills/profiles/SKILL.md · 122 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 122 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

phren-profiles - Manage your profiles

Multi-machine only. This skill is for users who sync phren across multiple machines and need to control which projects appear where. If you only use one machine, you can skip this -- phren-sync handles everything you need.

Add projects to profiles, move projects between profiles, create new profiles, and check what's in each one.

Manage which projects appear on which machines by editing your profile definitions. Each machine maps to one profile, and each profile is a list of projects.

Prerequisites

You need a phren repo. The profiles live in ~/.phren/profiles/ and machine mappings live in ~/.phren/machines.yaml.

~/.phren/
  profiles/
    work.yaml
    personal.yaml
  machines.yaml

If you don't have a phren repo yet, start with phren-init.

What's a profile?

A profile is a YAML file listing projects for a machine role. Example:

name: work
description: Work laptop with company projects
projects:
  - global
  - my-api
  - frontend

When you sync on a machine mapped to this profile, only those projects appear. Personal projects stay off work machines.

How to use it

"Add a project to a profile"

User says: "add my-project to my work profile"

  1. Find the profile file: ~/.phren/profiles/work.yaml
  2. Read it and find the projects: list
  3. Add the project name if it's not already there
  4. Commit the change

"Create a new profile"

User says: "create a new profile called staging"

  1. Create a new file: ~/.phren/profiles/staging.yaml
  2. Fill it with the required structure:
name: staging
description: Staging servers and experiments
projects:
  - global
  1. Ask which projects should be in this new profile (can add more later)
  2. Commit the file

"Show me what's in a profile"

User says: "what's in my personal profile?"

  1. Find ~/.phren/profiles/personal.yaml
  2. Read it and display the projects list

"Move a project between profiles"

User says: "move my-project from personal to work"

Read the full file on GitHub · 122 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. 2d ago First seen · 122 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A a3eca61b6808

Subscribe to this mod's changes

profiles is a skill published in the GitHub repository alaarab/phren (4 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 825 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 95% identical to phren-profiles, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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