install-spinner

install-spinner is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AlexPl292/awesome-claude-spinners. It costs 55 tokens per session (1,607 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A command for installing themed spinner messages in Claude Code, the coding assistant made by Anthropic.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps list available spinner packs and install a selected theme from the awesome-claude-spinners repository.
Why use it?
It saves the user from manually finding, downloading, and placing spinner message packs in the correct settings location.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit It helps list available spinner packs and install a selected theme from the awesome-claude-spinners repository.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alexpl292/awesome-claude-spinners/install-spinner
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 AlexPl292/awesome-claude-spinners --skill install-spinner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlexPl292/awesome-claude-spinners

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,607 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 $0.00055 $0.01607
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00804
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00321
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00161

Measured 12d ago against content hash a51b3e84b2e0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

install-spinner 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 12d 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.

4. Read the user's `~/.claude/settings.json` file.
skills/install-spinner/SKILL.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Install Spinner

Install themed spinner verb packs for Claude Code from the awesome-claude-spinners repository.

Install a Pack

  1. Fetch the list of available spinner packs from GitHub:
https://api.github.com/repos/alexpl292/awesome-claude-spinners/contents/spinners

Parse the JSON response to get the list of .json files. Extract the pack names by removing the .json extension.

  1. Present the packs to the user in a table with three columns: Pack name, a short description, and a couple of example verbs. Use this reference:
Pack Description Examples
90s-kid 90s nostalgia "Dialing up the internet", "Blowing into the cartridge"
blue-collar-dev Trades & construction humor "Hammering out code", "Duct-taping that together"
borat Borat Sagdiyev "Very nice! Great success-ing", "High five-ing the compiler"
cat Cat-themed "Knocking things off the table", "Napping on the keyboard"
chaos Absurdist & chaotic humor "Flipping the table", "Sacrificing a semicolon"
coffee Coffee & food themed "Brewing a fresh pot", "Letting it simmer"
corporate Corporate buzzwords & jargon "Synergizing", "Circling back"
cowboy Wild West & frontier "Lassoing the solution", "Riding into the sunset"
darth-vader Star Wars' Sith Lord "Finding your lack of tests disturbing", "Force-pushing to the remote"
detective Noir detective style "Following the trail", "Cracking the case"
developer Programming & dev culture "Deploying to prod on Friday", "Rewriting in Rust"
gardening Gardening & growing "Planting the seed", "Pulling the weeds"
gym-bro Gym & fitness culture "Crushing the set", "Going beast mode"
honest-no-filter Brutally honest dev thoughts "Making it worse first", "Hoping this compiles"
meme Internet memes & viral phrases "Yeeting the bugs", "Going sicko mode"
michael-scott The Office's Michael Scott "Declaring bankruptcy on the old code", "Somehow managing"
motivational Hype & motivational phrases "Absolutely crushing it", "Leveling up"
ninja Ninja & stealth "Moving through the shadows", "Striking silently"
ocean Ocean & underwater "Diving into the deep end", "Surfing the data waves"
philosophical Deep thoughts & philosophy "Pondering existence", "Contemplating the void"
pirate Pirate speak "Plundering the codebase", "Sailing the seven repos"
retro-gaming Retro gaming references "Inserting coin", "Loading save file"
sarcastic-ai Self-aware AI humor "Hallucinating responsibly", "Confidently guessing"
sf-entrepreneur San Francisco tech scene "Grabbing a Blue Bottle coffee", "Cold-emailing a16z"
shakespeare Shakespearean & old English "Prithee, a moment", "Once more unto the breach"
space Space & sci-fi "Initiating hyperdrive", "Scanning the sector"
startup Startup culture "Disrupting the industry", "Iterating on the MVP"
superhero Superhero themed "Suiting up", "Saving the day"
the-dude Big Lebowski's The Dude "Abiding", "Sipping a White Russian"
therapist Therapy speak & self-care "Holding space for the code", "Unpacking that"
time-traveler Time travel & paradoxes "Firing up the flux capacitor", "Rewriting the timeline"
vibecoder Vibe coding culture "Letting the AI cook", "Shipping on good vibes"
vim Vim editor enthusiasts "Exiting vim (attempting)", "Yanking the line"
walter-white Breaking Bad's Heisenberg "Being the one who codes", "Going full Heisenberg"
wholesome Wholesome & cozy vibes "Watering the plants", "Believing in you"
wizard Fantasy & magic themed "Casting a spell", "Consulting the ancient scrolls"
yoda Star Wars' Jedi Master "Reading the code, I am", "Trying not, doing"
zombie Zombie apocalypse survival "Reanimating dead code", "Double-tapping the bug"
bob-ross Happy little accidents "Adding a happy little function", "No mistakes, just features"
gordon-ramsay Angry chef yelling at code "This code is RAW", "WHERE'S THE ERROR HANDLING"
jack-sparrow Chaotic pirate captain "This is the day you almost caught a bug", "Why is the rum gone"
panicker Pure dev anxiety "OH NO OH NO OH NO", "Everything is on fire"
sherlock-holmes Deductive reasoning "Eliminating the impossible", "The game is afoot"
spanish-incantations Programmer spells & dev humor (ES) "Invocando daemons", "Culpando a git"
colombian-spanish Colombian Spanish slang & regions "Tomando tinto", "Joropeando"
rubber-duck Rubber-duck debugging "Explaining it to the duck", "Waiting for the duck's verdict"

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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.

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. 12d ago First seen · 111 lines · 55 tokens per session scan B a51b3e84b2e0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

install-spinner is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlexPl292/awesome-claude-spinners (75 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,607 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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