unconstrained-file-reader

unconstrained-file-reader is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cisco-ai-defense/skill-scanner. It costs 19 tokens per session (65 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A file-reading helper for documents stored in a documents directory.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps read files from the documents directory while applying safety checks.
Why use it?
It is intended to reduce the risk of reading files outside the expected directory.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit It helps read files from the documents directory while applying safety checks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cisco-ai-defense/skill-scanner/file-reader
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.

Any agent
npx skills add cisco-ai-defense/skill-scanner --skill file-reader
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cisco-ai-defense/skill-scanner

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cisco-ai-defense/skill-scanner/file-reader"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cisco-ai-defense/skill-scanner/file-reader.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 65 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.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00019 $0.00065
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00032
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00013
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00006

Measured 3d ago against content hash 790dd679a2a2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

unconstrained-file-reader 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 1 executable file (read.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.

evals/skills/path-traversal/file-reader/SKILL.md · 11 lines

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.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

2 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.

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 Changed · -4 lines · +9 tokens per session 790dd679a2a2
  2. 7d ago First seen · 15 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A f7c91bf5fcc7

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unconstrained-file-reader is a skill published in the GitHub repository cisco-ai-defense/skill-scanner (2,502 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 65 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 2026-08-30.