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/bks-lab/open-bridge/channelnpx skills add bks-lab/open-bridge --skill channelgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bks-lab/open-bridgeWrote 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/bks-lab/open-bridge/channel)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/bks-lab/open-bridge/channel"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bks-lab/open-bridge/channel.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 5.1 | $0.00068 | $0.00433 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00034 | $0.00217 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00014 | $0.00087 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00043 |
Grade A, and why
channel 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 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.
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
Channel
Manage messaging channels (imessage, email, telegram, whatsapp, signal, teams) and their runtime services. Read the referenced file ONLY when triggered.
Scope boundary
| Concern | Owner |
|---|---|
| Channel inventory, health, deploy, start/stop | This skill |
| Scheduled messages, cron/launchd/systemd jobs | /schedule skill |
| Recipient groups for those messages | /mandants skill |
When the user asks about a scheduled message ("compliment for Mom",
"weekly-digest", cron timing) route to /schedule. Channel management
is the transport layer; scheduling is a separate concern.
Arguments
| Argument | Effect | Default |
|---|---|---|
(none) |
Channel overview | — |
{name} |
Detail view of one channel | — |
health |
Health check all channels | — |
deploy {name} |
Deploy channel service | — |
start/stop/restart {name} |
Service control | — |
Decision Tree
User wants to...
├── Channel overview / status → Read references/workflow.md (§ Overview)
├── Channel health check → Read references/workflow.md (§ Health Check)
├── Start/stop a channel → Read references/workflow.md (§ Start/Stop)
├── Deploy channel services → Read references/workflow.md (§ Deploy)
├── Scheduled messages / cron jobs → Delegate to `/schedule` skill
├── Recipient group management → Delegate to `/mandants` skill
└── Questions about channels → Answer from this file
What ships with it
2 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.
- 5d ago First seen · 53 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 44ee68037414
channel is a skill published in the GitHub repository bks-lab/open-bridge (8 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 433 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 2026-08-31.
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