missing-reference

An instruction that refers to a helper file that is not present.

In plain words
What is it for?
Running the missing helper only when specifically asked, although the input does not identify what that helper does.
Why use it?
It cannot provide the referenced helper because that file is missing.

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/charliechenye/skillgate/missing-reference
Any agent
npx skills add charliechenye/SkillGate --skill missing-reference
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/charliechenye/SkillGate

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 44 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 $0.00014 $0.00044
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00022
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00009
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00004

Measured yesterday against content hash d4144a193444, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

missing-reference 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 yesterday.

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.

fixtures/skills-validation/missing-reference/SKILL.md · 9 lines

What it actually says

Run the missing helper only when asked.

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. yesterday First seen · 9 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A d4144a193444

Subscribe to this mod's changes

missing-reference is a skill published in the GitHub repository charliechenye/SkillGate (2 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 44 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.