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.
npx skills add automagik-dev/genie --skill genie-hacksgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/automagik-dev/genieWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/automagik-dev/genie/genie-hacks)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/automagik-dev/genie/genie-hacks"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/automagik-dev/genie/genie-hacks/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/automagik-dev/genie/genie-hacks"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/automagik-dev/genie/genie-hacks.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00033 | $0.00898 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00016 | $0.00449 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00180 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00090 |
Grade A, and why
genie-hacks 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 10d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 50 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
genie-hacks — Community Hacks & Patterns
Runtime syntax: invoke the plugin copy through the active runtime's owner-qualified skill selector; use a bare selector only when intentionally selecting a user-tier copy (a separately installed personal copy; Genie no longer seeds this tier). Cross-skill prose below uses bare names as portable semantic routes; the orchestrator resolves the selector for the active runtime.
Browse real-world Genie patterns contributed by the community. Search by problem, explore by category, or contribute your own.
When to Use
- User wants to discover Genie tips, tricks, or advanced patterns
- User asks a problem-oriented question — "how do I optimize costs?", "how do teams work?"
- User wants to contribute a hack they discovered
- User invokes
genie-hackswith any subcommand (no subcommand →list)
Data Sources
- Registry: Read
references/catalog.md(relative to this skill's directory) before answering any list/search/show/help request — it holds every hack (problem, solution, code, benefit, when-to-use) plus the category table. Never invent a hack that isn't in it. - Contribute mechanics: Read
references/contributing.mdwhen runningcontribute— exact fork/branch/PR commands and error recovery. - Published page: https://docs.automagik.dev/genie/hacks (source
genie/hacks.mdxin automagik-dev/docs).
Commands
| Command | Behavior |
|---|---|
genie-hacks / list |
Table of all hacks — ID, title, category — then the count and a contribute nudge. |
search <keyword> |
Case-insensitive match over title/problem/solution/code; show ID, title, category, problem snippet per match. None → suggest broader terms or list. |
show <hack-id> |
Full entry: problem, solution, code, benefit, when to use. Unknown ID → suggest the closest IDs. |
help <problem> |
Match the described problem to the top 3 relevant hacks; one-line "why" plus a quick tip each. Prefer a loose match over "no matches". |
contribute |
Guided submission → automated PR to automagik-dev/docs. |
What ships with it
3 files 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.
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 50 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 5d71093b81d9
genie-hacks is a skill published in the GitHub repository automagik-dev/genie (334 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 898 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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