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 Dragoon0x/taste-skills --skill version-archaeologygit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Dragoon0x/taste-skillsWrote 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/dragoon0x/taste-skills/version-archaeology)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dragoon0x/taste-skills/version-archaeology"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dragoon0x/taste-skills/version-archaeology/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/dragoon0x/taste-skills/version-archaeology"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dragoon0x/taste-skills/version-archaeology.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 | $0.00045 | $0.00265 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00023 | $0.00133 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00053 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00026 |
Grade A, and why
version-archaeology 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 12d 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.
What it actually says
Version Archaeology
The decisions that survive redesigns are the load-bearing walls.
How to use
/version-archaeologyApply evolutionary analysis to a product's design history.
Constraints
Analysis Method
- MUST compare at least 3 versions of the same product over time
- MUST document for each version: what changed, what stayed, what was tried and reverted
- MUST identify the persistent decisions (things that survived multiple redesigns)
- SHOULD note the ratio of cosmetic changes to structural changes
What Persistence Means
- Elements that survive 3+ redesigns are core taste decisions
- Elements that change every redesign are cosmetic/trend-following
- Elements that were added and then removed reveal failed experiments
- MUST treat persistent decisions as evidence of what the team considers essential
Anti-Patterns
- Only looking at the visual surface (layout changes) and missing structural persistence (information architecture)
- Assuming newer versions are always better
- Ignoring reverted changes (these are some of the most informative data points)
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 32 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 26d4b119e079
version-archaeology is a skill published in the GitHub repository Dragoon0x/taste-skills (4 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 265 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.
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