archagent-author-agent

archagent-author-agent is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ArchAstro/archagents. It costs 72 tokens per session (1,166 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A configuration authoring helper for ArchAstro agents, where configuration files define agents, tools, scripts, routines, and their environment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build or modify an agent's templates, scripts, custom tools, routines, and environment setup.
Why use it?
It helps prepare and edit these configuration files before deployment while using the project's templates and documentation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/archastro/archagents/archagent-author-agent
Any agent
npx skills add ArchAstro/archagents --skill archagent-author-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ArchAstro/archagents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,166 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00072 $0.01166
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00583
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00233
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00117

Measured 5d ago against content hash cd3a7e614d52, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

archagent-author-agent 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 5d 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.

agents/archastro-onboarding/skills/archagent-author-agent/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.

ArchAstro Agent Authoring

Create or update the config files for a config-driven ArchAstro agent before deployment.

This skill assumes the ArchAgent CLI is already installed and authenticated. Install or upgrade archagent if missing, and run archagent auth login <email> if not authenticated.

Always Start with State

Every invocation must begin by understanding the current project state:

archagent auth status

If the user is in a repo, inspect whether a configs/ directory already exists and whether the agent already has Script or AgentTemplate files.

Routing

Local config directory not initialized

If the user doesn't have a configs/ directory set up yet, route to the manage-configs skill first. That skill owns archagent init --enable-configs, local file layout, and the sync/deploy workflow.

User wants to author or modify agent configs

  1. Start from CLI-backed templates, not memory:

    • For new config objects, use:
      archagent describe configsample <Kind>
      
    • For Script configs, always use:
      archagent describe scriptdocs
      archagent describe configsample Script
      
      The script docs are the live source of truth. Do not invent or paraphrase the language from memory.
  2. Use the standard config-driven model:

    • Script logic lives in kind: Script configs.
    • Agent behavior lives in an AgentTemplate.
    • Custom tools should use kind: custom, handler_type: script, and config_ref pointing at Script configs.
    • When creating configs outside a project directory, use -f to read from a file:
      archagent create config -k AgentTemplate -f configs/agents/my-agent.yaml
      
  3. Validate early:

    archagent validate config -k <Kind> -f <path>
    

    Run validation before deploy whenever the user changes Script or template files.

  4. Deploy through the normal flow after authoring:

    • If the agent has Script configs or other supporting files, sync them first:
      archagent deploy configs
      
      This pushes local config files (Scripts, templates) but does not create agents. Skip this step if the agent only has a single AgentTemplate file — deploy agent handles its own config upload.
    • Then provision the agent from its template:
      archagent deploy agent <yaml-file>
      
      This uploads the template config and creates the agent with its routines, tools, and installations.
    • Important: deploy configs and deploy agent are different commands. Use deploy configs to sync a directory of config files; use deploy agent to create an agent from a template.

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. 5d ago First seen · 122 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A cd3a7e614d52

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archagent-author-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository ArchAstro/archagents (5 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 1,166 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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