safe-rm

safe-rm is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cowwoc/cat. It costs 23 tokens per session (525 once invoked), scanned C, original, no licence file.

A safer replacement for commands that recursively delete folders and files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it whenever you need to remove a directory tree from a project.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of deleting too much or breaking the shell session by accident.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cowwoc/cat/safe-rm
Any agent
npx skills add cowwoc/cat --skill safe-rm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cowwoc/cat

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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agentmods badge for safe-rm

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 525 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00023 $0.00525
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00262
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00105
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00052

Measured 5d ago against content hash 07d9a2176b0b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

safe-rm scanned grade C 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 5d 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

description: "MANDATORY: Use instead of rm -rf or rm -r to prevent shell session breakage"
plugin/skills/safe-rm/SKILL.md · 70 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 5d ago First seen · 70 lines · 23 tokens per session scan C 07d9a2176b0b

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safe-rm is a skill published in the GitHub repository cowwoc/cat (101 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 525 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.