catalyst-appsail

catalyst-appsail is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from catalystbyzoho/claude-plugin. It costs 95 tokens per session (597 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A persistent backend hosting service on Zoho Catalyst for Node.js, Java, Python, or custom Docker containers. A persistent backend is a server process that keeps running to handle an application’s requests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Developing, testing, deploying, and promoting backend services, including Docker-based applications, across Catalyst environments.
Why use it?
It provides a way to run long-lived application servers when short, stateless functions are not suitable.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the claude-plugin plugin — 16 skills, 1 command, 1 hook, 1 MCP server shipped together

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/catalystbyzoho/claude-plugin/catalyst-appsail
Any agent
npx skills add catalystbyzoho/claude-plugin --skill catalyst-appsail
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/catalystbyzoho/claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install claude-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 1 command, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

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 catalyst-appsail

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/catalystbyzoho/claude-plugin/catalyst-appsail"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/catalystbyzoho/claude-plugin/catalyst-appsail.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 597 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 $0.00095 $0.00597
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00298
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00119
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00060

Measured 4d ago against content hash 24f0138f59b8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

catalyst-appsail 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 4d 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/catalyst-appsail/SKILL.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

How It Works

  1. Identify the runtime — Managed runtime (Node.js, Java, Python) or custom Docker container.

  2. Load references/appsail-basics.md — for PORT config, environment variables, Dockerfile requirements, and deploy commands.

  3. PORT rule — Always use process.env.X_ZOHO_CATALYST_LISTEN_PORT, never hardcode PORT or 3000.

  4. Serve & test locally, THEN deploy (local-first). Before catalyst deploy appsail, run catalyst serve and exercise the app's routes on Local (managed-service calls proxy to the Development environment), and run the project's test suite. Iterate locally until it passes; only then deploy to Development (catalyst deploy appsail --name <name> -ni), verify on the Development URL, and promote to Production only after that. Full loop: ../catalyst-basics/references/project-basics.mdEnvironments.

  5. AppSail vs Functions decision — If the user is unsure which to use, apply this matrix:

    Catalyst Functions AppSail
    Code structure Catalyst-specific templates required Any framework, any format, fully independent
    Use case HTTP handlers, events, cron, Zoho integrations Persistent servers, long-running processes, Docker
    Billing Per API call Per instance uptime
    Dependency management Handled by Catalyst You manage all libraries and frameworks

Triggers

Use this skill for: "AppSail", "persistent server", "Docker on Catalyst", "backend hosting", X_ZOHO_CATALYST_LISTEN_PORT, appsail:add, "catalyst managed runtime", "deploy Express app", "AppSail vs Functions", "long-running process on Catalyst", or "containerized app on Catalyst".

References

Reference Load when the query is about…
references/appsail-basics.md Runtimes, Docker setup, PORT env var, env variables, deploy commands, AppSail vs Functions decision table
Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 4d ago First seen · 33 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A 24f0138f59b8

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catalyst-appsail is a skill published in the GitHub repository catalystbyzoho/claude-plugin (0 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 597 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.

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