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.
npx skills add ChristopherKahler/base --skill base-helpgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ChristopherKahler/baseWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/christopherkahler/base/base-help)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/christopherkahler/base/base-help"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/christopherkahler/base/base-help/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/christopherkahler/base/base-help"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/christopherkahler/base/base-help.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00085 | $0.02545 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00034 | $0.01018 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00017 | $0.00509 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00254 |
Grade B, and why
base-help scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 13d 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.
Strips warnings and disclaimersmediumAnti-refusal
Omitting safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.
- If the question is vague ("how does base work?"), don't lecture end-to-end. Ask what they're trying to accomplish, or give the Orientation. The source is not reproduced here
A licence we could not identify
The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.
What ships with it
4 files 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.
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.
- 13d ago Changed b66bd9396b0b
- 14d ago Changed 284c42e69ec4
- 15d ago Changed 28d84d516471
- 16d ago Changed e3c8843092ac
- 27d ago Changed 1b400aa92ad7
- 1mo ago Changed 1401501e02c3
- 1mo ago Changed 497b169e8aa7
- 1mo ago Changed · +3 lines bb63431354e6
- 1mo ago First seen · 143 lines · 85 tokens per session scan B d961a99463af
base-help is a skill published in the GitHub repository ChristopherKahler/base (300 stars, last pushed 13d ago), with no licence file. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 2,545 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (strips warnings and disclaimers). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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