exec-observe

exec-observe is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from batteryshark/rekit. It costs 67 tokens per session (407 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A controlled runner that executes a target in a new temporary folder and records its exit status, output, runtime, and created files. It requires explicit consent because it does not isolate the target from the host.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test suspicious or unknown programs and collect their standard output, errors, timing, and filesystem changes.
Why use it?
It shows what a program actually does while limiting its working folder and runtime. It makes the execution risk clear instead of treating the run as a safe sandbox.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to test suspicious or unknown programs and collect their standard output, errors, timing, and filesystem changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/batteryshark/rekit/exec-observe
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 batteryshark/rekit --skill exec-observe
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/batteryshark/rekit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 407 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 original 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 $0.00067 $0.00407
Opus 5.5 $0.00027 $0.00163
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00081
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00041

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 34d2222ac47b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/run.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/exec-observe/SKILL.md · 46 lines

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.

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-consent or set REKIT_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.)
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. 1mo ago First seen · 46 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 34d2222ac47b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

exec-observe is a skill published in the GitHub repository batteryshark/rekit (20 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 407 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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