ground-mechanism

ground-mechanism is a skill for Claude Code from attac-t/the-foundry. It costs 20 tokens per session (618 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide for deciding which parts of a coding or modelling task must produce fixed, repeatable results and which parts need human judgment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing code or models and deciding where deterministic rules or judgment should apply.
Why use it?
It helps separate predictable work from work that requires evaluation, reducing confusion about how each part should be handled.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the kernel plugin — 39 skills, 11 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it when designing code or models and deciding where deterministic rules or judgment should apply.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/attac-t/the-foundry/ground-mechanism
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 attac-t/the-foundry --skill ground-mechanism
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/attac-t/the-foundry

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install kernel, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 39 skills, 11 commands, 1 agent.

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 ground-mechanism

README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 618 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 unknown 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 $0.00020 $0.00618
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00309
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00124
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00062

Measured 12d ago against content hash e9c5f75bfb68, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ground-mechanism 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 12d 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/kernel/skills/ground-mechanism/SKILL.md · 74 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 12d ago First seen · 74 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A e9c5f75bfb68

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ground-mechanism is a skill published in the GitHub repository attac-t/the-foundry (1 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 618 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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