agentic-control-kernel

agentic-control-kernel is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from broomva/skills. It costs 211 tokens per session (1,826 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A control framework for building software agents that act through typed data structures, safety rules, evaluation checks, memory, and multiple operating loops. In this context, the agent is the controller and the repository or external system it changes is the controlled system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to bootstrap agent projects with schemas for actions and traces, safety shields, governance, evaluation interfaces, orchestration, event records, knowledge graphs, and persistent context.
Why use it?
It defines limits and checks around agent actions so the agent is not given more freedom than the results can be reliably judged. It also gives different agent subsystems a shared vocabulary and structure.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/broomva/skills/agentic-control-kernel
Any agent
npx skills add broomva/skills --skill agentic-control-kernel
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/broomva/skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 211 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,826 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00211 $0.01826
Opus 5 $0.00105 $0.00913
Sonnet 5 $0.00042 $0.00365
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00183

Measured 3d ago against content hash fa1ed3d4a169, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agentic-control-kernel 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 3d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/control_kernel_init.py, scripts/conversation-bridge-hook.sh, scripts/conversation-history.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/governance/agentic-control-kernel/SKILL.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agentic Control Kernel

A purely knowledge-based metalayer that unifies six subsystems into a single installable skill for any project:

Layer Source / Crates Role
Governance control-metalayer-loop Setpoints, sensors, gates, policy, profiles
Improvement autoany_core + autoany-aios + autoany-lago EGRI microkernel, Arcan execution, Lago ledger
Orchestration symphony-orchestrator + symphony-arcan Poll/dispatch/worker/reconcile via Arcan HTTP
Runtime Life (arcan, lago, autonomic, praxis, spaces) Agent sessions, event journal, homeostasis, networking
Protocol aios-protocol Canonical types — shared vocabulary across all crates
Episodic Memory knowledge-graph-memory Conversation logs -> Obsidian bridge
Consciousness agent-consciousness Three-substrate persistent context
QA/Actuation gstack Headless browser, workflow skills
Control Kernel this skill Plant interface, safety shields, typed schemas, multi-rate hierarchy

Core Law

Do not grant an agent more mutation freedom than your evaluator can reliably judge. In control terms: do not let the LLM's action space exceed what your runtime monitors, safety filters, and evaluators can certify.

Quick Start

1. Bootstrap a project

python3 scripts/control_kernel_init.py <repo-path> [--profile governed] [--runtime arcan] [--ledger lago]

This installs into the target repo:

  • .control/policy.yaml — control-systems-aware setpoints
  • schemas/ — state, action, trace, evaluator JSON schemas
  • METALAYER.md — control loop definition with plant/shield/estimator sections
  • Harness gates wired to make smoke, make check, make control-audit

2. Define the plant interface

Edit .control/plant.yaml with typed state and action schemas for your system. See references/plant-interface.md for the full API spec.

3. Wire safety shields

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 lines

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. 3d ago First seen · 145 lines · 211 tokens per session scan A fa1ed3d4a169

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agentic-control-kernel is a skill published in the GitHub repository broomva/skills (3 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 211 tokens to every session and 1,826 once invoked, about $0.0011 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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