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 agentmods add skills/aveproject/ave/setup-ave-skillsnpx skills add aveproject/ave --skill setup-ave-skillsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aveproject/aveWrote 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/aveproject/ave/setup-ave-skills)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/aveproject/ave/setup-ave-skills"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aveproject/ave/setup-ave-skills.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00000 | $0.00192 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00096 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00038 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00019 |
Grade A, and why
setup-ave-skills 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.
What it actually says
setup-ave-skills
Run once first.
- Read CLAUDE.md — understand record vs finding distinction
- Read LANGUAGE.md — attack_class not vulnerability_type
- Read ARCHITECTURE.md — the record/rule/fixture triangle
- Read schema/ave-record.schema.json — the record contract
Install Matt Pocock's skills
npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/tdd
npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/grill-with-docs
npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/to-prd
npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/handoff
Key context
This repo is a STANDARD, not software. The unit of work is an AVE record plus its detection rule plus its positive/negative fixtures. confidence is NEVER in a record — records declare confidence_baseline.
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.
- 4d ago First seen · 24 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 5466f84d6760
setup-ave-skills is a skill published in the GitHub repository aveproject/ave (17 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 192 tokens. 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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