manas-answer

manas-answer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from collindjohnson/manas. It costs 24 tokens per session (198 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for answering questions from a user's authorized personal information store. It retrieves evidence, generates an answer with a configured local model, and checks the supporting citations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to answer questions about information already stored in the user's personal brain, with document, revision, and source-span references.
Why use it?
It helps avoid presenting unsupported personal answers as facts by reporting missing evidence, conflicts, and citation failures.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to answer questions about information already stored in the user's personal brain, with document, revision, and source-span references.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/collindjohnson/manas/manas-answer
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 collindjohnson/manas --skill manas-answer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/collindjohnson/manas

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 198 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 $0.00024 $0.00198
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00079
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00040
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00020

Measured today against content hash cffadd345165, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

manas-answer 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 today.

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/manas-answer/SKILL.md · 13 lines

What it actually says

Call reasoning.answer with the question. Manas retrieves current authorized evidence, invokes the configured local generation provider, and checks its citations. Use the returned outcome, answer, citations, and knowledgeGaps together.

For insufficient_evidence, explain the evidence gap. For local_model_not_configured, report the suggested local-model setup fix; do not route the evidence to a hosted model or a shell-based generation fallback. For grounding_failed, do not present the rejected answer as supported.

Cite the returned document ID, revision, commit, and span near factual claims. If evidence conflicts, preserve the conflict instead of choosing an unsupported assertion. Generated answers are derived results and must not be captured as independent primary facts.

CLI access is manas operation reasoning.answer --input '{"question":"..."}' with the configured brain/service.

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. today First seen · 13 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A cffadd345165

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manas-answer is a skill published in the GitHub repository collindjohnson/manas (0 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 198 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-10-23.

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