discover-hardware

discover-hardware is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from BrianDavidCouch/daqmx-mcp. It costs 28 tokens per session (114 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for safely finding allowed National Instruments data-acquisition devices and their input channels. NI-DAQmx is software for communicating with National Instruments measurement hardware; simulated and mock devices are also supported.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking the server, listing available devices, identifying whether a device is mock, simulated, or physical, and selecting an explicitly returned device.
Why use it?
It prevents guessed device names, unapproved hardware access, and treating discovery or self-tests as proof that wiring is electrically safe.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Checking the server, listing available devices, identifying whether a device is mock, simulated, or physical, and selecting an explicitly returned device.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/briandavidcouch/daqmx-mcp/discover-hardware
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 BrianDavidCouch/daqmx-mcp --skill discover-hardware
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/BrianDavidCouch/daqmx-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 114 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 $0.00028 $0.00114
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00057
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00023
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00011

Measured 10d ago against content hash b8df804f677e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

discover-hardware 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 10d 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.

codex-plugin/daqmx-mcp/skills/discover-hardware/SKILL.md · 7 lines

What it actually says

State that this is an independent community project. Call get_server_status, then list_devices. Ask the user to select an explicit returned device before calling details or channel listing. Report whether it is mock/simulated/physical and show only server-returned allowed names. Never invent a name, broaden an allowlist, reset a device, or treat discovery/self-test as proof of electrical safety.

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. 10d ago First seen · 7 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A b8df804f677e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

discover-hardware is a skill published in the GitHub repository BrianDavidCouch/daqmx-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 114 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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