canary-protocol

canary-protocol is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from devon-clarkk/canary-mcp. It costs 83 tokens per session (1,106 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A conversation-continuity protocol that creates identifying keys and anchors, then recalls them across responses.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to print the continuity key and turn count, and to answer defined anchor checks when requested.
Why use it?
It helps detect whether context has been preserved during a long conversation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it to print the continuity key and turn count, and to answer defined anchor checks when requested.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/devon-clarkk/canary-mcp/canary-protocol
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 devon-clarkk/canary-mcp --skill canary-protocol
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/devon-clarkk/canary-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.

agentmods badge for canary-protocol

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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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,106 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 $0.00083 $0.01106
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00553
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00221
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00111

Measured 8d ago against content hash 48cb448ce923, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

canary-protocol 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/claude/canary-protocol/SKILL.md · 45 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

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 · 45 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A 48cb448ce923

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canary-protocol is a skill published in the GitHub repository devon-clarkk/canary-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 1,106 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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