legal-downloading

legal-downloading is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills. It costs 25 tokens per session (7,383 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to downloading media in ways that respect copyright and the rules of the platform providing it. Copyright is the legal protection that gives creators control over copying and distribution of their work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess permission, public-domain and Creative Commons content, platform download features, offline access, podcast tools, and jurisdiction-dependent exceptions.
Why use it?
It helps reduce the risk of infringing copyright or breaking platform terms when saving content for offline use.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to assess permission, public-domain and Creative Commons content, platform download features, offline access, podcast tools, and jurisdiction-dependent exceptions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills/legal-downloading
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 cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills --skill legal-downloading
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for legal-downloading

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills/legal-downloading/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills/legal-downloading)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills/legal-downloading"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills/legal-downloading/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for legal-downloading

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,383 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 185
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00025 $0.07383
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.03691
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.01477
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00738

Measured 9d ago against content hash 0214a7a10e16, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

legal-downloading scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 9d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

response = requests.get(
categories/media-download/legal-downloading/SKILL.md · 941 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 941 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Download media legally and responsibly. This skill covers the legal landscape of media downloading — what's allowed, what's not, and how to build workflows that respect copyright while still getting the content you need offline.

Core Principles

1. Copyright Is Not Optional

Copyright law protects creators' rights to control reproduction and distribution of their work. Downloading copyrighted content without permission is infringement in most jurisdictions, regardless of whether you're "just sharing" or "only for personal use."

2. Permission Comes in Many Forms

Not all downloading requires explicit permission. Look for:

  • Explicit permission: Creative Commons, public domain, or direct creator authorization
  • Implied permission: Platform download features, offline modes, RSS feeds
  • Statutory permission: Fair use/fair dealing, time-shifting, format-shifting (jurisdiction-dependent)

3. Platform Terms Matter

Each platform has its own terms of service that govern what you can do with content. YouTube's Terms of Service prohibit downloading videos unless a download button or API is provided. Violating ToS isn't necessarily illegal, but it can get your account terminated.

4. Know Your Jurisdiction

Copyright law varies significantly by country. Fair use (US) is broader than fair dealing (UK, Canada, Australia). Private copying exceptions exist in some EU countries but not others. Know the laws that apply to you.


What Copyright Protects

Copyright protects original works of authorship fixed in a tangible medium:

  • Audiovisual works: Movies, TV shows, videos
  • Sound recordings: Music, podcasts, audio books
  • Literary works: Books, articles, code
  • Musical works: Compositions, lyrics

Copyright grants the creator exclusive rights to:

  • Reproduce the work
  • Create derivative works
  • Distribute copies
  • Perform the work publicly
  • Display the work publicly

Read the full file on GitHub · 941 lines

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. 9d ago First seen · 941 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 0214a7a10e16

Subscribe to this mod's changes

legal-downloading is a skill published in the GitHub repository cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills (471 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 7,383 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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