afs

afs is a skill for Claude Code from ArcBlock/agent-skills. It costs 27 tokens per session (2,094 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line interface for reading and changing AFS, the path-addressed world used by ARC. It can list, read, write, inspect, search, explain, and run an executable at an AFS path.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect and modify AFS paths, search stored content, or execute an AFS resource. It can connect to a running daemon or use an isolated standalone mode.
Why use it?
It provides one way to work with live ARC data instead of relying on ambiguous local paths. Named instances help ensure commands reach the intended world.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the arc plugin — 7 skills, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to inspect and modify AFS paths, search stored content, or execute an AFS resource. It can connect to a running daemon or use an isolated standalone mode.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/arcblock/agent-skills/afs
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 ArcBlock/agent-skills --skill afs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ArcBlock/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install arc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 2 hooks.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for afs

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/arcblock/agent-skills/afs/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/arcblock/agent-skills/afs)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/arcblock/agent-skills/afs"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/arcblock/agent-skills/afs/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for afs

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/arcblock/agent-skills/afs"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/arcblock/agent-skills/afs.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,094 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00027 $0.02094
Opus 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00838
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00419
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00209

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 667545e5314d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

afs 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 1mo 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.

plugins/arc/skills/afs/SKILL.md · 179 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 179 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ARC skill: afs

AFS is the path-addressed world. Prefer MCP (arc skill show mcp) or the daemon HTTP API (POST /afs on the instance's own port) for live agent work — both attach to one already-known instance without ambiguity.

arc afs <cmd> is for ad-hoc inspection of a named instance from a terminal. It never silently picks a world: pass --instance <name> to attach to a specific instance's daemon, or --standalone for a throwaway ad-hoc AFS with no daemon and no runtime state. Bare arc afs <cmd> (no flag) targets the default instance and fails closed — non-zero exit — if that instance has no daemon running.

Core ops

arc afs ls [path] --instance <name>
arc afs read <path> --instance <name>
arc afs write <path> [content] --instance <name>
arc afs stat <path> --instance <name>
arc afs exec <executable_path> --args '<json-object>' --instance <name>
arc afs search <path> <query> --instance <name>
arc afs explain [topic|path] --instance <name>

Every example above works the same with --standalone instead of --instance <name> (ad-hoc mode; the first output line reads [standalone]).

arc afs mount is the exception — it is NOT instance-scoped. Its four subcommands (add / remove / list / validate) only read and write the .afs-config/config.toml found by walking up from the current directory, and they reject --instance / -i / --home rather than accept-and-ignore them. To mount a path into a running instance, use arc attach:

cd <dir-with-.afs-config>  &&  arc afs mount list        # edit/inspect the cwd config
arc attach --to ws://localhost:<port> --namespace <ns> --source <dir>   # runtime mount

Exec args (critical): pass parameters as one JSON object. Check the exact shape with arc afs exec --help (per-command help never needs an instance).

arc afs exec /some/.actions/foo --args '{"key":"value"}' --instance <name>

Do not invent bare key=value after -- unless exec --help documents it. When in doubt: --args '{...}'.

Read the full file on GitHub · 179 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. 1mo ago First seen · 179 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 667545e5314d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

afs is a skill published in the GitHub repository ArcBlock/agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 2,094 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-14.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

create-pr

Creates a GitHub PR with a Linear-ticket-prefixed title and a decision-led, narrative description for Prisma 8. Use when the user wants to create a pull request, open a PR, or submit changes for review.

prisma/orm · 48 tokens

schema-exploration

Lists tables, describes columns and data types, identifies foreign key relationships, and maps entity relationships in a database. Use when the user asks about database schema, table structure, column types, what tables exist, ERD, foreign keys, or how entities relate.

langchain-ai/deepagents · 57 tokens

atlas-mssql

SQL Server specifics for Atlas (also Azure SQL and MSSQL): login, dev database and URL scope (mode=schema vs mode=database, the database query parameter), compatibility level and collation, system-generated constraint names, clustered index defaults and datetime2 precision in HCL, GO batches and the delimiter…

ariga/atlas · 147 tokens

ha-data-stores

Map of Hope Agent's local data stores and safe read-only query workflow. Use when the user asks where Hope Agent stores data, wants to inspect sessions/messages/memory/logs/background jobs/knowledge indexes/settings, asks the model to query local app data, or debugging requires checking persisted state. Trigger…

shiwenwen/hope-agent · 115 tokens

nornicdb-cypher-queries

Pick fast, predictable Cypher query shapes in NornicDB — point lookups, batch retrieval, pagination, search, traversal, batched UNWIND/MERGE writes, cleanup, multi-tenant isolation. Use when writing or reviewing Cypher whose latency or throughput matters; maps user intent to the executor's hot-path query templates.

orneryd/NornicDB · 79 tokens

volcengine-rds-postgresql

A tool for operating PostgreSQL databases hosted by Volcano Engine's managed database service. PostgreSQL is a relational database used to store structured application data.

bytedance/agentkit-samples · 63 tokens