cub-mutate

cub-mutate is a skill for Claude Code from confighub/confighub-skills. It costs 80 tokens per session (5,202 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for changing fields in an existing ConfigHub Unit, which is a stored group of configuration data. It prefers reusable functions for common edits and writes the result as a new revision.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to change images, replica counts, environment variables, ports, labels, annotations, limits, probes, or other settings in one or many selected Units.
Why use it?
It reduces inconsistent hand-edits and helps changes continue to work across downstream variants when configuration is upgraded.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the confighub-skills plugin — 16 skills, 1 command, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to change images, replica counts, environment variables, ports, labels, annotations, limits, probes, or other settings in one or many selected Units.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/confighub/confighub-skills/cub-mutate
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 confighub/confighub-skills --skill cub-mutate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/confighub/confighub-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install confighub-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 1 command, 1 hook.

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Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,202 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 $0.00080 $0.05202
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.02601
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.01040
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00520

Measured 2d ago against content hash aed33304a4d3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cub-mutate 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 2d 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/cub-mutate/SKILL.md · 373 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 373 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

cub-mutate

Execution mode: follow references/execution-modes.md. This Skill grants no automatic tool permission. After an exact diff and scope preview, standalone use submits one requested Unit mutation to the host permission system; an external overlay may stop it before Bash.

The get / modify / write-back loop for ConfigHub Units.

The rule

Prefer a function over a hand-edit. Functions like set-container-image, set-replicas, set-env-var, the defaults family — hermetic, idempotent, comment-preserving, and produce clean revisions. Hand-editing YAML is the fallback when no function fits.

And write the invocation so it works somewhere else too. A mutation is rarely a one-off: it runs across whatever selection you give it, it propagates to every downstream variant, and — because an upgrade now replays the upstream's recorded invocations against each variant rather than copying the paths they touched — it will be re-run later against data that has changed since. See Write invocations that generalize.

When to use

  • Any single-field change: image, replicas, env var, port, annotation, label, resource requests/limits, probe, security context, hostname.
  • Applying the defaults functions to one or many Units.
  • Bulk changes across multiple Units via --where / --where-data — usually inside a ChangeSet (see below).
  • Making a change hold against the next promotion (--protect), or working out why an earlier change missed some variants.
  • Restoring a Unit to a prior revision (or a ChangeSet's pre-open state).
  • Patching metadata (labels, annotations) on one or many Units.

Do not load for

  • Creating a new Unit (confighub-core).
  • Pure inspection / query (cub-query).
  • Setting up Triggers or ValidationErrors (triggers-and-applygates).

Preflight gates

  1. cub auth status succeeds — it contacts the server's /me endpoint to confirm the token is still valid (not just local login state). If it fails, ask the user to run cub auth login (an interactive browser sign-in an agent cannot complete).
  2. User has write permission on the target Space(s).
  3. The Space is covered by a TriggerFilterID (or its Triggers are otherwise in place) so validation will enforce the change. If not, suggest triggers-and-applygates — but don't block.

Read the full file on GitHub · 373 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. 2d ago Changed aed33304a4d3
  2. 9d ago Changed b97bfff1c3e0
  3. 12d ago First seen · 373 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A c8cb6115990f

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cub-mutate is a skill published in the GitHub repository confighub/confighub-skills (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 5,202 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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