Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to Aquaticat/Monochromatic. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Aquaticat/Monochromatic/main/.agents/skills/choosing-technology/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Aquaticat/MonochromaticWrote 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/aquaticat/monochromatic/choosing-technology)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/aquaticat/monochromatic/choosing-technology"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aquaticat/monochromatic/choosing-technology.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" 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 | $0.00062 | $0.07327 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00031 | $0.03664 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00012 | $0.01465 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00733 |
Grade B, and why
choosing-technology scanned grade B with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation
A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.
then `chmod 700 "${HOME}/temp/agent" "${HOME}/temp/agent/technology-vet-locks"`. The source is not reproduced here
Licensed LGPL-3.0
The repository is licensed LGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.
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.
- 8d ago First seen · 1,413 lines · 62 tokens per session scan B 393eb68c5b2b
choosing-technology is a skill published in the GitHub repository Aquaticat/Monochromatic (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed LGPL-3.0. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 7,327 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.
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