handle-host-boundaries

handle-host-boundaries is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Drizzy07x/Skillquiver. It costs 46 tokens per session (607 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A safety procedure for situations involving unavailable tools, commands, dialogs, or risky filesystem locations. It checks whether the requested capability is actually available before dependent work begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a task depends on a named tool, picker, approval, or destructive filesystem operation that may not be available. It identifies the boundary, asks the exact unanswered question, and waits for a reply.
Why use it?
It prevents the agent from pretending to have a missing capability or making a choice that requires the user's approval. It also stops before actions that could affect the wrong files or environment.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the skillquiver plugin — 24 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when a task depends on a named tool, picker, approval, or destructive filesystem operation that may not be available. It identifies the boundary, asks the exact unanswered question, and waits for a reply.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/drizzy07x/skillquiver/handle-host-boundaries
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 Drizzy07x/Skillquiver --skill handle-host-boundaries
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Drizzy07x/Skillquiver

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install skillquiver, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 24 skills.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 607 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 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 $0.00046 $0.00607
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00303
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00121
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00061

Measured 9d ago against content hash 6f78bfd93316, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

handle-host-boundaries 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 9d 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.

skills/handle-host-boundaries/SKILL.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Handle Host and Destructive Boundaries

Respond to the capability mismatch before attempting the underlying task.

Hard Stop Before Action

When a named capability is not exposed and the dependent action requires the user's choice, consent, or approval:

  1. Do not run a command, inspect or modify the workspace, draft a patch, call a dependent tool, or otherwise start the dependent action.
  2. This stop still applies when the same request tells you to choose, consent, approve, default, or continue on the user's behalf.
  3. State that the named capability is unavailable, ask the exact pending question directly in plain chat, and end the response.
  4. Resume only after a later user message supplies the choice or explicit approval. The fallback instruction in the original request is not an answer.

Workflow

  1. Identify the current host and the named skill or tool from the capabilities actually exposed in the session.
  2. If it is unavailable, state the exact boundary directly. Do not search for, invoke, or fabricate it.
  3. Apply the hard stop above before any dependent action. Never invent the user's choice, consent, or approval.
  4. Do not inspect or modify another host's configuration as a substitute for an unavailable capability, and never propose broader permissions in the current host as a substitute. Explicitly authorized AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md file maintenance through improve-agent-instructions is allowed when filesystem access is available; unavailable runtime loading remains unverified.
  5. Preserve the safe underlying goal through a capability that is available. For a simple question, ask it directly in plain chat. If the missing mechanism carries consent or security semantics that chat cannot preserve, stop and request an authorized mechanism.

Destructive roots

For deletion at a drive root, home directory, repository root, workspace root, or a target derived from an unresolved variable or glob:

  1. Refuse before running any command.
  2. Explain the risk to the operating system and unrelated data.
  3. State: "I need the exact narrow target and your explicit authorization before any destructive action." A general cleanup goal is not authorization.
  4. Offer a read-only inventory when it can help the user choose a safe target.

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 lines

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. 9d ago First seen · 62 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 6f78bfd93316

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handle-host-boundaries is a skill published in the GitHub repository Drizzy07x/Skillquiver (2 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 607 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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