pathfinder

pathfinder is a skill for Claude Code from dgilford/ai-science-toolkit. It costs 59 tokens per session (1,603 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A navigable map of available skills and subagents, explaining when to use each one. Skills are reusable workflows, while subagents are specialized assistants for particular kinds of work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find relevant skills or agents, understand session-start and session-end commands, and decide between review or implementation helpers.
Why use it?
It helps choose the right tool when you are unsure what capability fits the task or how the session workflow is organized.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the ai-science-toolkit plugin — 21 skills, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to find relevant skills or agents, understand session-start and session-end commands, and decide between review or implementation helpers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dgilford/ai-science-toolkit/pathfinder
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 dgilford/ai-science-toolkit --skill pathfinder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dgilford/ai-science-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-science-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 4 agents.

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 pathfinder

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dgilford/ai-science-toolkit/pathfinder.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/dgilford/ai-science-toolkit/pathfinder)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dgilford/ai-science-toolkit/pathfinder"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dgilford/ai-science-toolkit/pathfinder.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,603 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00059 $0.01603
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00801
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00321
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00160

Measured 8d ago against content hash ccdbf8481296, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pathfinder 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/pathfinder/SKILL.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill & Agent Router

Type /pathfinder when you need to know which skill or subagent to reach for. Nothing here fires automatically; this is a navigation aid only.


Session lifecycle

Start of session   →  /pickup
                         ↓ (do work)
End of session     →  /handoff           writes .ai/HANDOFF.md, then calls /evolve-claude-md
Standalone update  →  /evolve-claude-md  promote session knowledge to CLAUDE.md only

Skills — user-invoked (type the slash command explicitly)

Skill Command Reach for it when…
repo-init /repo-init [--package] Starting a new repo (or retrofitting an old one): scaffolds the standard structure — research mode by default, --package for a distributable library. Idempotent
pickup /pickup Starting a new session; reconstructs context from .ai/HANDOFF.md. Named pickup, not resume, so it doesn't shadow Claude Code's built-in /resume session picker
handoff /handoff Ending a session or switching agents; calls evolve-claude-md internally
evolve-claude-md /evolve-claude-md Standalone CLAUDE.md update without a full handoff
grill-me /grill-me Stress-testing a plan or design before implementing; thin launcher for the grilling core
slack-message /slack-message Drafting an internal Slack update grounded in git context
create-alert /create-alert [--spec-only] Getting pinged on Slack when something changes/happens: grills a "tell me when X" ask into a testable trigger, dry-runs it, and (on sign-off) creates a scheduled cloud routine. --spec-only stops at the spec
tab-setup /tab-setup [all] Naming / coloring this Claude Code tab; all recolors every active session
write-new-skill /write-new-skill Scaffolding a new skill from scratch
spot-ai /spot-ai [path | pasted text] Checking prose for AI markers: gray-list style tells (lane 1) and generation-mechanism substance tells like fabricated provenance or invented first-person testimony (lane 2). Flags only. Not a copy-editor — it reports AI markers, not writing advice
ai-review /ai-review Full comprehensive repo/project review; orchestrates code-review/security-review/unstale/overbaked/reviewer-2 in parallel and adds gap-hunting + grounded ideation + prioritized synthesis. Run on fable at high+ effort
pathfinder /pathfinder This router

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 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 · 114 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A ccdbf8481296

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pathfinder is a skill published in the GitHub repository dgilford/ai-science-toolkit (62 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 1,603 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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