toolchain-preflight

toolchain-preflight is a skill for Codex from cmdr-chara/codex-toolkit. It costs 39 tokens per session (512 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A preparation workflow for finding a reliable way to run local commands, runtimes, package managers, browsers, and scripts on the current machine.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when required tools are unavailable or behave unexpectedly, especially before repeated builds, tests, scripts, or browser checks.
Why use it?
It avoids repeated build or test failures caused by missing programs, incompatible runtimes, shell quoting, blocked command shims, or text-encoding problems.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it when required tools are unavailable or behave unexpectedly, especially before repeated builds, tests, scripts, or browser checks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cmdr-chara/codex-toolkit/toolchain-preflight
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 cmdr-chara/codex-toolkit --skill toolchain-preflight
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cmdr-chara/codex-toolkit

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 512 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 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 $0.00039 $0.00512
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00205
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00102
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00051

Measured 24d ago against content hash 4f5c6331eb9b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

toolchain-preflight 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 24d 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/toolchain-preflight/SKILL.md · 48 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 48 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Toolchain Preflight

Resolve one supported local execution path, then get out of the way.

Trigger boundary

Use this skill when required executables or invocation behavior are unknown, or a task is blocked by shell/runtime/package-manager shims, incompatible local runtimes, quoting, browser binaries/capability, or text encoding.

Do not trigger when the repository's documented command already reaches the real task, for application debugging, deliberate dependency/runtime migrations, or final release judgment.

Required inputs

Resolve repository instructions, working-tree/user state, OS/shell, documented command, required runtime/executable/capability, first exact failure, and any policy constraints on installs/downloads.

Safety baseline

  • Preserve uncommitted user work.
  • Prefer existing documented/system/runtime paths before installs or environment mutation.
  • Do not repeatedly retry an unchanged failing mechanism.
  • Use scratch locations for probes that should not affect the repository.
  • Do not bypass execution policy/security controls merely to make a command run.

Workflow

  1. Establish the documented path. Read repository instructions and exact command first.
  2. Resolve real executables. Distinguish shell shims/wrappers from underlying runtimes and package managers.
  3. Classify the failure. Missing executable, blocked shim, wrong version/architecture, stale virtual environment, quoting, browser capability, encoding, or actual application failure.
  4. Select one safe invocation. Prefer the least-mutating supported path.
  5. Probe once, then run the real task. A successful version probe is not enough; confirm the invocation reaches the repository task.
  6. Hand off immediately. Once the execution path works, application behavior belongs to its specialist.

Handoffs and interaction boundaries

Application failures go to debugging-investigator; planned version transitions to evolution; browser/app implementation to the owning builder; final integrated evidence to verification-and-release.

Read the full file on GitHub · 48 lines

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. 24d ago Changed · -123 lines · -67 tokens per session 4f5c6331eb9b
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 171 lines · 106 tokens per session scan A 194832e27224

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toolchain-preflight is a skill published in the GitHub repository cmdr-chara/codex-toolkit (2 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 512 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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