foundation: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/vault-health/SKILL.md

vault-health is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dgraziosi/foundation. It costs 52 tokens per session (686 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A weekday written check of a running Foundation vault, which is a local instance of the Foundation product and its stored data. It checks more than whether the health endpoint responds.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check the local service, data location, database state, and other configured health conditions, then report failures to the user.
Why use it?
It helps identify when the local vault is not running correctly or is using the wrong data folder, while staying quiet when everything is healthy.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is dgraziosi/foundation's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on foundation itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything foundation configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to dgraziosi/foundation. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dgraziosi/foundation/main/.agents/skills/vault-health/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dgraziosi/foundation

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 686 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00052 $0.00686
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00343
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00137
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00069

Measured 8d ago against content hash 39838947101a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vault-health scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

You are not the host script. Do not start Postgres or the app. Do not install a schedule. Do not wake a bot to curl /health on a timer. That job is [`scripts/keep-vault-up.sh`](../../../scripts/keep-vault-up.sh). It star
.agents/skills/vault-health/SKILL.md · 40 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 40 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Vault health

You are writing the weekday vault-health report. The user can run this, or attach it to Vault Keeper.

Read docs/VAULT_HEALTH.md and follow the written-report section. Call bootstrap if you need the current tools.

You are not the host script. Do not start Postgres or the app. Do not install a schedule. Do not wake a bot to curl /health on a timer. That job is scripts/keep-vault-up.sh. It starts the two host programs, curls /health, and fails on an empty cluster next to a real one. First-day 0 user records is healthy. /health green is not enough.

The user is the human who runs this vault on this machine. A vault is this running instance (FOUNDATION_DATA + Postgres). Do not call the graph “the Vault.”

Schedule and voice

Weekdays, 9:15 user-local. If every check passes, stay quiet. Ping the user only on failure.

Keeping the vault up is the host script on this machine’s own schedule. Not this pass. Quiet when health is green and the live folder is the intended real cluster.

User config (fill in; blank means skip that check)

  • MCP / health base: http://127.0.0.1:8787
  • FOUNDATION_DATA: (from .env; default ./data) — this path is the vault
  • Well-known node ids or titles: (optional; skip if unset)
  • Backup path: BACKUP_ROOT (default: sibling of the data dir; skip only if the user unset it)
  • Backup stale after: 48 hours (only if BACKUP_ROOT is set)

Checks (in order)

  1. GET /health — HTTP 200 and { ok: true, service: "foundation", db: "up" }. If this fails, ping. Do not start the host programs.
  2. FOUNDATION_DATA is the real vault: not an agent profile or memory directory, and not an empty leftover Postgres cluster (missing/empty postgres dir, no PG_VERSION, host cannot read PG_VERSION, empty live next to a backup or second tree that has people). Do not mkdir the live path on that miss. A first-day vault with seed types and 0 user records is healthy unless well-known nodes were configured.
  3. If well-known nodes are configured, get/search them and confirm they exist (not soft-deleted). If none configured, skip.
  4. Backup path defaults to BACKUP_ROOT. Skip only if the user unset it. If set, the path is present and the newest artifact is newer than 48 hours. Newest artifact may be foundation-YYYYMMDD.sql.age. Health checks; it does not dump. Nag if the dump is missing or old.

Read the full file on GitHub · 40 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 Changed 39838947101a
  2. 11d ago First seen · 40 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 6c5d12417bc7

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vault-health is a skill published in the GitHub repository dgraziosi/foundation (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 686 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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