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.
npx skills add dinglebear-ai/cortex --skill mcp-friction-assessmentgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dinglebear-ai/cortexWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/dinglebear-ai/cortex/mcp-friction-assessment)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dinglebear-ai/cortex/mcp-friction-assessment"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dinglebear-ai/cortex/mcp-friction-assessment/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dinglebear-ai/cortex/mcp-friction-assessment"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dinglebear-ai/cortex/mcp-friction-assessment.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00099 | $0.01326 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00049 | $0.00663 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00020 | $0.00265 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00133 |
Grade B, and why
mcp-friction-assessment scanned grade B 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 10d 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.
Instruction-override phrasingmediumPrompt injection
Text telling the model to disregard its earlier instructions or safety rules is the shape of a prompt injection, whoever wrote it.
at you (for example "ignore previous instructions", "you are now in Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.
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.
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 121 lines · 99 tokens per session scan B 9888b3984108
mcp-friction-assessment is a skill published in the GitHub repository dinglebear-ai/cortex (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 1,326 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (instruction-override phrasing). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.
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