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 agentmods add skills/drn/dots/mergenpx skills add drn/dots --skill mergegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/drn/dotsWrote 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/drn/dots/merge)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/drn/dots/merge"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/drn/dots/merge.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" 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 | $0.00027 | $0.02831 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00014 | $0.01416 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00005 | $0.00566 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00283 |
Grade A, and why
merge 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 4d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 139 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Context
- Current branch: !
git branch --show-current - Git status: !
git status --short - Remotes: !
git remote -v 2>/dev/null | head -10 - Base ref: !
git branch -r 2>/dev/null | grep -oE 'origin/(main|master)' | head -1 - Commits vs main (upstream): !
git log upstream/main..HEAD --oneline 2>/dev/null | head -50 - Commits vs master (upstream): !
git log upstream/master..HEAD --oneline 2>/dev/null | head -50 - Commits vs main (origin): !
git log origin/main..HEAD --oneline 2>/dev/null | head -50 - Commits vs master (origin): !
git log origin/master..HEAD --oneline 2>/dev/null | head -50 - Diff stat vs main (upstream, branch-only): !
git diff upstream/main...HEAD --stat 2>/dev/null | head -50 - Diff stat vs master (upstream, branch-only): !
git diff upstream/master...HEAD --stat 2>/dev/null | head -50 - Diff stat vs main (origin, branch-only): !
git diff origin/main...HEAD --stat 2>/dev/null | head -50 - Diff stat vs master (origin, branch-only): !
git diff origin/master...HEAD --stat 2>/dev/null | head -50
Phase Protocol
This skill participates in a phase chain. Read ~/.claude/skills/_shared/resources/phase-protocol.md for the full protocol.
Before merging: Read the latest .context/phases/ship-*.md for the PR number/URL if available.
After merge completes: Write a land-{ts}.md artifact to .context/phases/ (create with mkdir -p .context/phases). The Detail section should include the merge commit SHA and PR URL. Optionally archive all phase artifacts: mkdir -p .context/phases/archive && mv .context/phases/*.md .context/phases/archive/.
Your task
Merge the current branch into the default branch via GitHub PR merge. An existing PR is NOT required — one will be created if needed.
Step 0: Preflight — ahead/behind check
Before committing anything, verify the branch is in a mergeable state.
Run:
TARGET=$(git remote | grep -q '^upstream$' && echo upstream || echo origin)
git fetch "$TARGET" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
DEFAULT_BRANCH=$(git branch -r 2>/dev/null | grep -oE "${TARGET}/(main|master)" | head -1 | sed "s|${TARGET}/||")
[ -z "$DEFAULT_BRANCH" ] && DEFAULT_BRANCH="master"
AHEAD=$(git log "$TARGET/$DEFAULT_BRANCH..HEAD" --oneline 2>/dev/null | wc -l | tr -d ' ')
BEHIND=$(git log "HEAD..$TARGET/$DEFAULT_BRANCH" --oneline 2>/dev/null | wc -l | tr -d ' ')
DIRTY=$(git status --short 2>/dev/null | wc -l | tr -d ' ')
echo "ahead=$AHEAD behind=$BEHIND dirty=$DIRTY default_branch=$DEFAULT_BRANCH"
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.
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.
- 4d ago First seen · 139 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 032ba5962bb4
merge is a skill published in the GitHub repository drn/dots (23 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 2,831 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.
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