backup-setup

backup-setup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from davekilleen/Dex. It costs 81 tokens per session (1,269 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A setup guide for automatically creating verified backups of a notes vault in a synced folder or cloud storage.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure vault backups and decide where backup archives go and how long they are kept.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of losing notes by keeping archived copies with defined retention levels.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python3 core/backup/install_backup_job.py --hour 12 --minute 30.

Good fit Use it to configure vault backups and decide where backup archives go and how long they are kept.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davekilleen/Dex
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/davekilleen/dex/backup-setup

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,269 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 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 $0.00081 $0.01269
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00634
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00254
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00127

Measured 8d ago against content hash 72a5de5a9195, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backup-setup 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.

.agents/skills/backup-setup/SKILL.md · 99 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. 8d ago First seen · 99 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 72a5de5a9195

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backup-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository davekilleen/Dex (476 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 1,269 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 2026-09-02.