cynthion-setup

cynthion-setup is a skill for Claude Code from curtisgalloway/public-skills. It costs 82 tokens per session (1,642 once invoked), scanned D, original, no licence file.

A setup skill for Cynthion, a hardware and software toolkit used to inspect USB traffic. It installs and checks the Cynthion command-line tool, Packetry graphical interface, tshark, and Linux device permissions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before using Cynthion skills or when those skills fail because required software or Linux device rules are missing.
Why use it?
It prepares a new machine so other Cynthion skills can run and identifies missing prerequisites.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the hardware-lab plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it before using Cynthion skills or when those skills fail because required software or Linux device rules are missing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/curtisgalloway/public-skills/cynthion-setup
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 curtisgalloway/public-skills --skill cynthion-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/curtisgalloway/public-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install hardware-lab, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,642 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 3 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00082 $0.01642
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00821
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00328
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00164

Measured 11d ago against content hash d336ef5a402e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

cynthion-setup scanned grade D with 3 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo mv packetry /usr/local/bin/

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

- macOS/Linux: `curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh`

Makes network callslowCapability

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

- macOS/Linux: `curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh`
plugins/hardware-lab/skills/cynthion-setup/SKILL.md · 220 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. 11d ago First seen · 220 lines · 82 tokens per session scan D d336ef5a402e

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cynthion-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository curtisgalloway/public-skills (2 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 1,642 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 3 findings (asks for root, downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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