concepts

concepts is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from austintgriffith/ethskills. It costs 96 tokens per session (2,770 once invoked), scanned B, original, no licence file.

A set of explanatory models for understanding blockchain applications and Ethereum development. It focuses on ideas such as the fact that actions are not automatic and that incentives shape system behaviour.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when learning onchain development, designing a blockchain system, or explaining how an Ethereum application behaves.
Why use it?
It helps newcomers understand how onchain systems actually work and avoid assumptions that lead to flawed designs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the ethskills plugin — 28 skills 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/austintgriffith/ethskills/concepts
Any agent
npx skills add austintgriffith/ethskills --skill concepts
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/austintgriffith/ethskills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ethskills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills.

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 concepts

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/austintgriffith/ethskills/concepts.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/austintgriffith/ethskills/concepts)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/austintgriffith/ethskills/concepts"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/austintgriffith/ethskills/concepts.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,770 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00096 $0.02770
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01385
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00554
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00277

Measured 5d ago against content hash d50f2d1432c8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

concepts scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

Strips warnings and disclaimersmediumAnti-refusal

Omitting safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.

**Don't lecture.** Instead, when a concept is relevant to what they're building, explain it in context. Here's what to emphasize for each:
concepts/SKILL.md · 233 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

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 · 233 lines · 96 tokens per session scan B d50f2d1432c8

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concepts is a skill published in the GitHub repository austintgriffith/ethskills (277 stars, last pushed 15d ago), with no licence file. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 2,770 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (strips warnings and disclaimers). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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