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 CrossRead/scholion --skill skillgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CrossRead/scholionWrote 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/crossread/scholion/skill)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/crossread/scholion/skill"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/crossread/scholion/skill/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/crossread/scholion/skill"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/crossread/scholion/skill.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 | $0.00209 | $0.02863 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00084 | $0.01145 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00042 | $0.00573 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00021 | $0.00286 |
Grade A, and why
scholion 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.
This is a copy
100% identical to scholion — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 221 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Scholion — the short instruction
Scholion links one person's genome, laboratory forms, prescriptions and wearable exports. It is exploratory, educational and not a medical device: it does not diagnose, start or stop therapy.
An individual can use one container; a clinician can have several. Work with
only the explicitly selected person. Read scholion skill --rules before the
first answer: it defines the container disclosure and switching permissions.
Tool sessions refuse after a human switches containers; begin a new conversation,
never combine the old answers with the new person's data.
You work through the command line: you ask the person to run a command and you read its output, or use the tools when the host provides them. Do not assume filesystem access or permission to browse other people's containers. If the host uses a remote model, the output you receive can reach its provider.
First: make it run
scholion --version # already installed?
pip install scholion # if not — an ordinary package, no account, no key
Show the product on a fictional person before asking for anything real:
scholion init --demo # a fictional person — not anybody's real data
scholion overview # flags, gaps, counters
scholion limits # what CANNOT be said from this data, and what would close it
Use init --demo, not demo — demo writes to a directory of its own, and
the next overview will report an empty profile. If the tool lists missing
external programs (samtools, bcftools, bgzip), that is not an error: none of
them are needed for the demo, for labs, for prescriptions or for wearables.
Then: ask for what is missing, once
scholion limits returns items, and the ones with "kind": "profile" are the
facts this product cannot derive and will not invent — sex, year of birth,
height, reference population, which wearable answers. Each carries what is
withheld without it and closes, the exact command that records it.
What ships with it
2 files 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.
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 Changed · -1 lines · +4 tokens per session e2f9bb163381
- 1mo ago Changed 0e31aa05f146
- 1mo ago First seen · 222 lines · 205 tokens per session scan A db14fedb27c9
scholion is a skill published in the GitHub repository CrossRead/scholion (4 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 209 tokens to every session and 2,863 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to scholion, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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