rag-synthesize

rag-synthesize is a skill for Claude Code from dinglebear-ai/axon. It costs 54 tokens per session (1,318 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A prompt for producing answers from retrieved sources. RAG, or retrieval-augmented generation, means finding relevant source material and using it to shape the answer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Synthesizing source-backed answers in the Axon `ask` command.
Why use it?
It helps keep generated answers tied to available sources while adapting the amount of explanation to the question and resisting misleading instructions in those sources.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the axon plugin — 3 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Synthesizing source-backed answers in the Axon ask command.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dinglebear-ai/axon/rag-synthesize
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 dinglebear-ai/axon --skill rag-synthesize
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dinglebear-ai/axon

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install axon, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 1 agent.

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README.md
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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,318 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 $0.00054 $0.01318
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00527
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00264
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00132

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 0d164f7c4f94, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rag-synthesize 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 1mo 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.

plugins/axon/references/rag-synthesize/SKILL.md · 115 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

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. 1mo ago Changed · +6 lines · +11 tokens per session 0d164f7c4f94
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 109 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 2dd8ffad558f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

rag-synthesize is a skill published in the GitHub repository dinglebear-ai/axon (4 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,318 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 2026-08-31.

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