shell

shell is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from blockcell-labs/blockcell. It costs 0 tokens per session (325 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for running local terminal commands and handling shared shell prompts. A shell is the program that lets you work with a computer by typing commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you explicitly need to run a command, inspect command output, or work with shared shell and prompt sections.
Why use it?
It makes command execution follow clear rules about working directories, dangerous operations, errors, and how much output to show. This reduces accidental changes and confusing command results.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when you explicitly need to run a command, inspect command output, or work with shared shell and prompt sections.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/blockcell-labs/blockcell/shell
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 blockcell-labs/blockcell --skill shell
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/blockcell-labs/blockcell

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for shell

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/blockcell-labs/blockcell/shell/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/blockcell-labs/blockcell/shell)
Your own site
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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.

agentmods 80×15 button for shell

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 325 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00000 $0.00325
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00130
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00065
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00032

Measured 2mo ago against content hash a1bdf7b986db, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shell 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 2mo 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.

skills/shell/SKILL.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

Shell

Shared {#shared}

  • 适合用户明确要求“执行命令”“跑一下”“在终端里执行”这类本机命令。
  • 默认工作目录是当前 workspace;如果用户明确指定目录,按用户目录执行。
  • 这个 skill 只负责明确的本机命令执行,不负责替用户猜测复杂部署流程。

Prompt {#prompt}

  • 只有在以下情况才澄清:
    • 用户没有给出明确命令或目标动作
    • 用户要执行的动作明显危险,但没有明确确认
  • 工具策略:
    1. 用 exec 执行明确命令
    2. 如果用户给了目录,显式传入工作目录
    3. 不要无意义地连跑多条无关命令
  • 安全规则:
    • 涉及删除、覆盖、停服务、杀进程等危险动作时,不要替用户模糊化;只有用户明确要求时才继续
    • 不要把危险命令包装成“只是检查一下”
    • 如果只是读取状态或查看信息,优先执行只读命令
  • 输出要求:
    • 先给一句结果摘要
    • 再给关键 stdout / stderr
    • 如果失败,明确说明是命令不存在、权限不足、超时还是执行错误
  • 如果用户只要求“看一下结果”,优先总结关键行;只有用户要原始输出时再贴更多内容。
Files

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.

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. 2mo ago First seen · 27 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A a1bdf7b986db

Subscribe to this mod's changes

shell is a skill published in the GitHub repository blockcell-labs/blockcell (261 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 325 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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