check-the-provider-before-you-catalog

check-the-provider-before-you-catalog is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from brcampidelli/chimera-agent. It costs 26 tokens per session (349 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A procedure for checking a live model catalogue before recording a model's identifier, price, or available context size. It keeps unknown values unknown and records where and when the information was checked.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when updating model records, comparing prices, checking served limits, finding duplicates, and running the catalogue's validation tests.
Why use it?
Model routes, prices, limits, and tool support can change independently. Checking the live index prevents stale or guessed catalogue data.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when updating model records, comparing prices, checking served limits, finding duplicates, and running the catalogue's validation tests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/brcampidelli/chimera-agent/check-the-provider-before-you-catalog
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 brcampidelli/chimera-agent --skill check-the-provider-before-you-catalog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brcampidelli/chimera-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 349 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 $0.00026 $0.00349
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00140
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00070
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00035

Measured 22d ago against content hash 4a880f31b601, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

check-the-provider-before-you-catalog 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 22d 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/check-the-provider-before-you-catalog/SKILL.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

Trigger

You are changing a model catalogue. Identifiers, prices, limits, modalities and tool support can change independently.

Do

Take the exact slug, price and served window from the live OpenRouter index through chimera.providers.listing; record the source and check date. When a row's price differs from the index, retain the old pair in also_seen rather than overwriting its history. Keep unknown values as None, never guessed. Check for duplicates. If the source is ambiguous, leave the entry unchanged and ask.

Avoid

Do not copy prices or windows from a vendor's marketing page or another model. Do not overwrite also_seen history. An advertised window is not necessarily the window the route serves.

Check

Run the catalogue unit tests and tests/test_catalog_is_live.py (a network check run on main), then inspect the entry through the CLI. Non-empty fields alone do not prove correctness.

Risk

The live index can change after merge as routes and prices change. Source references and check dates make updates traceable; they do not guarantee future accuracy. Receipts are priced from the live index; the catalogue row is a fallback.

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. 22d ago First seen · 37 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 4a880f31b601

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check-the-provider-before-you-catalog is a skill published in the GitHub repository brcampidelli/chimera-agent (29 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 349 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-10-05.

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