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/batteryshark/rekit/exec-observenpx skills add batteryshark/rekit --skill exec-observegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/batteryshark/rekitWhat 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 | $0.00067 | $0.00407 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00034 | $0.00204 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00013 | $0.00081 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00041 |
Grade A, and why
exec-observe 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 2d 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
Execute & Observe (dynamic)
⚡ Dynamic tier — this RUNS the target. Run it only where you don't mind the risk: a disposable VM or a dedicated analysis box, or behind an isolation provider.
When to use
Use this when you need the target's exit status, output, file effects, and timing. For
deeper visibility, use syscall-trace, net-capture, or frida-trace.
What it does
Runs the target in a fresh temp working directory with a timeout, and captures:
- exit code (and whether it timed out),
- stdout / stderr (head),
- wall-clock duration,
- files created in the working dir.
It bounds the run (working dir + timeout) but does not sandbox the target — the target can do anything the host allows.
Consent
Because it executes untrusted code, it's gated:
- via rekit:
rekit run --allow-dynamic exec-observe <target>(the dispatcher sets the consent env for the runner); - direct call: pass
--yes-i-consentor setREKIT_ALLOW_DYNAMIC=1.
Without consent it refuses with exit 4.
Usage
rekit run --allow-dynamic exec-observe ./sample --timeout 15
rekit run --allow-dynamic exec-observe ./sample --format json
Prerequisites
- python3 ≥ 3.8 — pure stdlib. (Whatever the target needs to run is on you.)
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.
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 46 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 34d2222ac47b
exec-observe is a skill published in the GitHub repository batteryshark/rekit (11 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 407 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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