using-axon

using-axon is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dinglebear-ai/axon. It costs 55 tokens per session (1,149 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A connection to Axon for searching the web, indexing sources, extracting information, storing memories, and answering questions from collected material.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for web research, retrieval-augmented generation, source and repository indexing, feed processing, extraction, and answers grounded in indexed content.
Why use it?
It gives an agent a way to work with external or previously indexed information instead of relying only on its built-in knowledge.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

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

Good fit Use it for web research, retrieval-augmented generation, source and repository indexing, feed processing, extraction, and answers grounded in indexed content.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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

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 using-axon

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dinglebear-ai/axon/using-axon/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/dinglebear-ai/axon/using-axon)
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.

agentmods 80×15 button for using-axon

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,149 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 $0.00055 $0.01149
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00460
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00230
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00115

Measured 24d ago against content hash 45086e452efc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

using-axon 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 24d 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/skills/using-axon/SKILL.md · 56 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

3 files 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. 24d ago Changed · -330 lines · +19 tokens per session 45086e452efc
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 386 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A dc731b61a800

Subscribe to this mod's changes

using-axon is a skill published in the GitHub repository dinglebear-ai/axon (4 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,149 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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