token-goat

token-goat is a skill for Claude Code from DFKHelper/token-goat. It costs 57 tokens per session (3,747 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A code-reading tool that returns focused parts of files, symbols, sections, references, and command output instead of reading everything.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps inspect code structure, find references, read selected sections, and review a session for missed savings.
Why use it?
It reduces unnecessary context and token use when exploring a large codebase.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit It helps inspect code structure, find references, read selected sections, and review a session for missed savings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dfkhelper/token-goat/canonical
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 DFKHelper/token-goat --skill canonical
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DFKHelper/token-goat

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,747 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 $0.00057 $0.03747
Opus 5.5 $0.00023 $0.01499
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00749
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00375

Measured yesterday against content hash 237743024d1d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

token-goat 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 yesterday.

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.

src/canonical_skill.md · 144 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. yesterday Changed · +1 lines 237743024d1d
  2. 5d ago Changed · +11 lines 4fdbec94d273
  3. 12d ago First seen · 132 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A e82b1eb6c420

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token-goat is a skill published in the GitHub repository DFKHelper/token-goat (141 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 3,747 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-04.

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