install

An installation skill for the ArchAgent command-line tool, a program used from a terminal. It checks the installed version, installs or upgrades the tool through Homebrew, GitHub Releases, or platform-specific scripts, and verifies the result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install, upgrade, verify, or troubleshoot the ArchAgent CLI on macOS, Linux, or Windows.
Why use it?
It avoids guessing which installation method fits the user's operating system and whether ArchAgent is already installed. It also gives troubleshooting guidance for common installation failures.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 529 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 94% 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 $0.00069 $0.00529
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00264
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00106
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00053

Measured 2d ago against content hash 378d3528c237, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

install scanned grade C with 2 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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ArchAstro/archagents/main/install.sh | bash

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

allowed-tools: ["Bash(archagent:*)", "Bash(brew:*)", "Bash(curl:*)", "Bash(bash:*)", "Bash(sh:*)", "Bash(pwsh:*)", "Bash(powershell:*)"]
Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to archagent-install — 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.

plugins/archagents/skills/install/SKILL.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

Install ArchAgent CLI

Install or upgrade the public archagent binary from Homebrew or GitHub Releases.

Workflow

  1. Check whether the CLI is already installed:

    archagent --version
    

    If this succeeds, record the version.

  2. If the CLI is present and the user didn't ask to upgrade, confirm the version and stop.

  3. If the CLI is missing or the user asked to upgrade, install it using the public distribution path:

    • On macOS, if Homebrew is available:
      brew install ArchAstro/tools/archagent
      
      If the formula is already installed, run:
      brew upgrade ArchAstro/tools/archagent
      
    • On Linux or macOS without Homebrew:
      curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ArchAstro/archagents/main/install.sh | bash
      
    • On Windows PowerShell:
      irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ArchAstro/archagents/main/install.ps1 | iex
      
  4. Verify installation:

    archagent --version
    
  5. On failure, help troubleshoot the public install path:

    • Missing brew is expected on Linux and some macOS setups; fall back to install.sh.
    • Permission denied usually means they need --install-dir or a user-writable target directory.
    • command not found: archagent after install usually means the install directory is not on PATH.
    • Release download failures usually mean the target release asset has not been published yet.
  6. On success, tell the user the CLI is ready and suggest they run archagent setup to install the Claude Code/Codex plugins, then archagent auth login <email> to authenticate.

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 · 51 lines · 69 tokens per session scan C 378d3528c237

Subscribe to this mod's changes

install is a skill published in the GitHub repository ArchAstro/archagents (5 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 529 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). It is 94% identical to archagent-install, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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