fossa-attribution

fossa-attribution is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from darthzen/fossa-mcp. It costs 74 tokens per session (3,467 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for creating third-party software attribution files from a FOSSA project's dependency report. FOSSA is a tool that identifies software dependencies and their licenses; the files may be a NOTICE summary or a full list of license texts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare NOTICE files, third-party license lists, open-source attribution reports, or complete license texts for a software release.
Why use it?
It helps prevent dependencies or required license information from being silently left out of a release's notices. Unclear entries are flagged for review instead of being ignored.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to prepare NOTICE files, third-party license lists, open-source attribution reports, or complete license texts for a software release.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/darthzen/fossa-mcp/fossa-attribution
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 darthzen/fossa-mcp --skill fossa-attribution
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/darthzen/fossa-mcp

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,467 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00074 $0.03467
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.01733
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00693
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00347

Measured 8d ago against content hash b97180f73a34, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fossa-attribution 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 8d 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.

skills/fossa-attribution/SKILL.md · 277 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 277 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

fossa-attribution

Pin a FOSSA project revision, pull its attribution report, agree the inclusion scope with the user, and write the attribution file(s) — a NOTICE-style summary and/or a full THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES with complete license texts — with every unresolvable entry flagged rather than dropped.

Why this workflow exists: most licenses that permit redistribution require notice in return — the license text, the copyright line, or both, preserved in the shipped artifact. The failure mode is not producing an ugly file; it is producing a plausible-looking file with silent gaps. A dependency missing from the notices is a compliance hole nobody will spot by reading the file, which is why steps 5 and 6 (flag the gaps, reconcile the counts) are the non-negotiable part of this skill.

This skill produces the artifact. Whether attribution is required at all for a given distribution, and which obligations attach, is the sibling skill [[fossa-license-review]] — run that first when the question is "do we owe notices" rather than "write the notices".

Ask which project if it isn't named. Everything else below is procedure.

1. Resolve the project and pin the revision

Never guess a locator, and never generate against "latest" without recording what latest resolved to — an attribution document that cannot say which build it covers is not evidence of anything.

  • fossa_list_projects(title=...) → the project locator and latestRevision.locator.
  • If the user wants a specific release rather than the newest scan: fossa_list_project_revisions(project_locator=..., refs_type="tag") for tagged releases, or locator_contains=<sha-prefix> to find a commit. resolved_only=True (the default) is what you want — an unresolved revision has no dependency analysis to report on.

Whichever way you got it, write the full revision locator down, including the $<revision> suffix, and put it in the header of the generated file: project, revision, and the date the report was pulled. That triple is the document's provenance.

Read the full file on GitHub · 277 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. 8d ago First seen · 277 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A b97180f73a34

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fossa-attribution is a skill published in the GitHub repository darthzen/fossa-mcp (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 3,467 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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