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 Cody-W-Tucker/Cognitive-Assistant --skill read-the-active-modegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Cody-W-Tucker/Cognitive-AssistantWrote 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/cody-w-tucker/cognitive-assistant/read-the-active-mode)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cody-w-tucker/cognitive-assistant/read-the-active-mode"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cody-w-tucker/cognitive-assistant/read-the-active-mode/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/cody-w-tucker/cognitive-assistant/read-the-active-mode"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cody-w-tucker/cognitive-assistant/read-the-active-mode.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 | $0.00025 | $0.00270 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00013 | $0.00135 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00005 | $0.00054 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00027 |
Grade A, and why
read-the-active-mode 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 11d 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.
What it actually says
When To Use
Load this when the main question is what kind of response the moment calls for: inspection, diagnosis, execution, simplification, exploration, decision packaging, relational clarification, or verification.
The skill owns sequencing and mode selection. It routes the work before content is produced.
Do Not Use
Do not use this to do the routed work itself: not diagnosis, not tone calibration, not operator adaptation, not simplification, not action-forcing, and not verification. Once the mode is clear, hand off.
What To Do
- Read the live signals: concrete object, failure evidence, decision owner, relational ambiguity, acceptance test, or open exploration.
- Choose the next mode that would reduce risk or create progress.
- Avoid over-interpreting motive when a simpler mode signal is present.
- State what would change the mode if new evidence appears.
- Keep the routing lightweight; do not turn it into a second analysis task.
Output Shape
Return the mode call: current mode, why, what skill or move follows, and what signal would change the route.
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 26 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A b86e8a953378
read-the-active-mode is a skill published in the GitHub repository Cody-W-Tucker/Cognitive-Assistant (11 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 270 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.
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