ryk-doctor

ryk-doctor is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from christopherkarani/ryk. It costs 0 tokens per session (370 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A diagnostic check for ryk installation, repository policy, host integration, and Codex plugin readiness.

In plain words
What is it for?
Run it before using ryk to confirm the setup, inspect warnings, and verify fixes.
Why use it?
It shows why ryk protection is not ready, such as a missing executable, policy file, or plugin installation, and points to follow-up checks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is ./scripts/zig build.

Good fit Run it before using ryk to confirm the setup, inspect warnings, and verify fixes.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/christopherkarani/ryk
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/christopherkarani/ryk/ryk-doctor

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 370 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00000 $0.00370
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00185
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00074
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00037

Measured 9d ago against content hash f8c9fa0f9244, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ryk-doctor 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 9d 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.

integrations/codex-plugin/skills/ryk-doctor/SKILL.md · 67 lines

What it actually says

ryk-doctor

Check ryk installation, policy status, host integration status, and plugin readiness.

When to use

Use this skill when you want to verify that ryk is properly installed, that a policy exists for the current repository, and that the Codex plugin integration is ready.

Commands

Run the ryk plugin doctor for Codex:

ryk plugin doctor codex

Run the general ryk doctor for platform capabilities:

ryk doctor

Interpreting results

Missing ryk binary

If ryk is not found in PATH, install ryk first. Build from source with Zig 0.16.0:

./scripts/zig build

The binary will be at ./zig-out/bin/ryk.

Missing policy

If .ryk/policy.yaml is missing, initialize one:

ryk init --preset codex

Then validate it:

ryk policy check .ryk/policy.yaml

Missing Codex plugin install

If the plugin directory is not detected, ensure the ryk repository includes integrations/codex-plugin/ and that you are running from the workspace root.

Follow-up diagnostics

If the doctor reports warnings:

  1. Read the warning message carefully.
  2. Fix missing policies or binaries.
  3. Re-run ryk plugin doctor codex to confirm.
  4. If issues persist, run ryk doctor for platform-specific capability notes.

Notes

  • This skill does not modify host configuration.
  • The plugin does not collect telemetry. Release CLI commands may record only fixed anonymous metadata; see docs/telemetry.md.
  • The doctor output goes to stdout; errors go to stderr.
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. 9d ago First seen · 67 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A f8c9fa0f9244

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ryk-doctor is a skill published in the GitHub repository christopherkarani/ryk (39 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 370 tokens. 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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