using-oac

using-oac is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from darrenhinde/OpenAgentsControl. It costs 42 tokens per session (1,473 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for finding and using other assistant add-ons before responding. It requires checking for relevant skills and following their instructions when they apply.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of conversations to discover applicable skills, load their instructions, create requested checklists, and follow the right process.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance of missing a specialized workflow or ignoring required setup and review steps.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the oac plugin — 12 skills, 6 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook shipped together

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/darrenhinde/openagentscontrol/using-oac
Any agent
npx skills add darrenhinde/OpenAgentsControl --skill using-oac
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/darrenhinde/OpenAgentsControl

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install oac, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 6 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook.

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 using-oac

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/darrenhinde/openagentscontrol/using-oac.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/darrenhinde/openagentscontrol/using-oac)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/darrenhinde/openagentscontrol/using-oac"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/darrenhinde/openagentscontrol/using-oac.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,473 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00042 $0.01473
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00737
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00295
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00147

Measured 4d ago against content hash 6d83e0330f0c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

using-oac 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 4d 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.

plugins/claude-code/skills/using-oac/SKILL.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

IF A SKILL APPLIES TO YOUR TASK, YOU DO NOT HAVE A CHOICE. YOU MUST USE IT.

This is not negotiable. This is not optional. You cannot rationalize your way out of this.

How to Access Skills

In Claude Code: Use the Skill tool. When you invoke a skill, its content is loaded and presented to you—follow it directly. Never use the Read tool on skill files.

Using OAC Skills

The Rule

Invoke relevant or requested skills BEFORE any response or action. Even a 1% chance a skill might apply means that you should invoke the skill to check. If an invoked skill turns out to be wrong for the situation, you don't need to use it.

digraph skill_flow {
    "User message received" [shape=doublecircle];
    "About to build/create something?" [shape=doublecircle];
    "Already brainstormed?" [shape=diamond];
    "Invoke oac:approach skill" [shape=box];
    "Might any OAC skill apply?" [shape=diamond];
    "Invoke Skill tool" [shape=box];
    "Announce: 'OAC skill loaded: [friendly-skill-name] — [purpose]'" [shape=box];
    "Has checklist?" [shape=diamond];
    "Create TodoWrite todo per item" [shape=box];
    "Follow skill exactly" [shape=box];
    "Respond (including clarifications)" [shape=doublecircle];

    "About to build/create something?" -> "Already brainstormed?";
    "Already brainstormed?" -> "Invoke oac:approach skill" [label="no"];
    "Already brainstormed?" -> "Might any OAC skill apply?" [label="yes"];
    "Invoke oac:approach skill" -> "Might any OAC skill apply?";

    "User message received" -> "Might any OAC skill apply?";
    "Might any OAC skill apply?" -> "Invoke Skill tool" [label="yes, even 1%"];
    "Might any OAC skill apply?" -> "Respond (including clarifications)" [label="definitely not"];
    "Invoke Skill tool" -> "Announce: 'OAC skill loaded: [friendly-skill-name] — [purpose]'";
    "Announce: 'OAC skill loaded: [friendly-skill-name] — [purpose]'" -> "Has checklist?";
    "Has checklist?" -> "Create TodoWrite todo per item" [label="yes"];
    "Has checklist?" -> "Follow skill exactly" [label="no"];
    "Create TodoWrite todo per item" -> "Follow skill exactly";
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 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. 4d ago First seen · 130 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 6d83e0330f0c

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using-oac is a skill published in the GitHub repository darrenhinde/OpenAgentsControl (4,820 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,473 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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