ingest

ingest is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ariaxhan/kernel-claude. It costs 48 tokens per session (3,101 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A starting procedure for new or resumed coding work that researches the repository, classifies the task, and checks existing handoff notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Beginning, continuing, fixing, building, refactoring, or reviewing work in an existing code repository.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of working from outdated assumptions or missing project instructions. It also identifies which technical guidance the task requires.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the kernel plugin — 28 skills, 13 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

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/ariaxhan/kernel-claude/ingest
Any agent
npx skills add ariaxhan/kernel-claude --skill ingest
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ariaxhan/kernel-claude

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install kernel, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 13 agents, 4 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 ingest

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ariaxhan/kernel-claude/ingest.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ariaxhan/kernel-claude/ingest)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ariaxhan/kernel-claude/ingest"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ariaxhan/kernel-claude/ingest.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,101 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 $0.00048 $0.03101
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01550
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00620
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00310

Measured 4d ago against content hash eee333f65b0e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ingest 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 4d 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.

skills/ingest/SKILL.md · 318 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 318 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Authority order (highest wins) — a manifest is a map, not the territory:

  1. live verified repository state
  2. explicit current user instruction
  3. handoff or checkpoint manifest
  4. chronicle
  5. inferred conversation history

<skill_load> always: skills/debug/SKILL.md on_classify: bug: skills/debug/SKILL.md feature: skills/build/SKILL.md, skills/architecture/SKILL.md refactor: skills/architecture/SKILL.md review: skills/review/SKILL.md on_domain: frontend: skills/frontend/SKILL.md app: skills/app-dev/SKILL.md on_tier: 2+: skills/orchestration/SKILL.md reference: skills/build/reference/build-research.md </skill_load>

<on_start>

agentdb read-start
ls _meta/research/  # check prior work

Load /kernel:quality, /kernel:testing, /kernel:git immediately. After classify: load task-specific skills above. Do NOT proceed without loading them. After scope: if tier 2+, load /kernel:orchestration. If any domain detected (API, auth, frontend, backend): load domain skills. </on_start>

Search before asking: Glob, Grep, common paths.

<ask_user> Use AskUserQuestion when: classification is ambiguous (could be bug or feature, refactor or rewrite) Ask: "This looks like {type_A} but could be {type_B}. Which framing fits your intent?" Options: type_A, type_B, or clarify </ask_user>

After classify: load matching workflow from workflows/{type}.md if it exists. Workflow steps guide the phase sequence. Human confirms at each step (ingest mode).

  1. Discover: explicit path if the user gave one, else:

    "$KM" latest        # newest across _meta/checkpoints/ + _meta/handoffs/
    

    Legacy markdown handoffs (_meta/handoffs/*.md) remain readable this release: parse goal/decisions/next-steps from prose, note "legacy handoff (deprecated, no validation/divergence/budget)" and suggest regenerating as JSON. Removal path: docs/MIGRATION-8.md.

  2. Validate — a manifest that does not validate is not resumed:

    "$KM" validate <manifest>     # exit 2 (no parser) on a sealed manifest = STOP
    
  3. Divergence — live state wins over manifest claims:

    "$KM" divergence <manifest> --json
    

    Typed divergence events apply workflow.invalidation_rules[].when and return recalculated phase statuses. Never trust an inherited phase whose inputs changed.

  4. Preflight: run "$KM" preflight <manifest>. Canonical state permits only typed current-branch, path-exists, and allowlisted argv checks; raw shell is invalid.

  5. Compile bounded context — read the bundle, not the raw tree:

    "$KM" compile <manifest> --bundle-out /tmp/resume-bundle.md --receipt-out _meta/reports/receipt-{date}.json
    

    The receipt (kernel.context-receipt/v1) reports estimated tokens per layer and status: within_budget → proceed · target_exceeded → drop optional selectors, proceed with a note · maximum_exceeded (exit 3) → STOP, report the receipt, ask before loading anything.

Read the full file on GitHub · 318 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. 4d ago First seen · 318 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A eee333f65b0e

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ingest is a skill published in the GitHub repository ariaxhan/kernel-claude (12 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 3,101 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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