external-comms

external-comms is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from elbruno/ElBruno.MempalaceNet. It costs 20 tokens per session (3,005 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of external-comms, MIT.

A manually started workflow for finding recent unanswered GitHub issues and discussions, drafting replies, and showing them to a person for approval. GitHub issues are tracked tasks or questions, while discussions are forum-style conversations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Scanning recent public issues and Q&A or General discussions, drafting replies, filtering excluded items, and recording actions in an audit log.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of finding community questions and preparing responses while ensuring nothing is posted without human review.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Scanning recent public issues and Q&A or General discussions, drafting replies, filtering excluded items, and recording actions in an audit log.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/elbruno/elbruno.mempalacenet/external-comms
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 elbruno/ElBruno.MempalaceNet --skill external-comms
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elbruno/ElBruno.MempalaceNet

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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README.md
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,005 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00020 $0.03005
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.01503
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00601
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00300

Measured 10d ago against content hash a32cc840a78c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

external-comms 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 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.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to external-comms — 658 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.squad/templates/skills/external-comms/SKILL.md · 330 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 330 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Context

Phase 1 is draft-only mode.

  • PAO scans issues and discussions, drafts responses with the humanizer skill, and presents a review table for human approval.
  • Human review gate is mandatory — PAO never posts autonomously.
  • Every action is logged to .squad/comms/audit/.
  • This workflow is triggered manually only ("PAO, check community") — no automated or Ralph-triggered activation in Phase 1.

Patterns

1. Scan

Find unanswered community items with GitHub MCP tools first, or gh issue list / gh api as fallback for issues and discussions.

  • Include open issues and discussions only.
  • Filter for items with no squad team response.
  • Limit to items created in the last 7 days.
  • Exclude items labeled squad:internal or wontfix.
  • Include discussions and issues in the same sweep.
  • Phase 1 scope is issues and discussions only — do not draft PR replies.

Discussion Handling (Phase 1)

Discussions use the GitHub Discussions API, which differs from issues:

  • Scan: gh api /repos/{owner}/{repo}/discussions --jq '.[] | select(.answer_chosen_at == null)' to find unanswered discussions
  • Categories: Filter by Q&A and General categories only (skip Announcements, Show and Tell)
  • Answers vs comments: In Q&A discussions, PAO drafts an "answer" (not a comment). The human marks it as accepted answer after posting.
  • Phase 1 scope: Issues and Discussions ONLY. No PR comments.

2. Classify

Determine the response type before drafting.

  • Welcome (new contributor)
  • Troubleshooting (bug/help)
  • Feature guidance (feature request/how-to)
  • Redirect (wrong repo/scope)
  • Acknowledgment (confirmed, no fix)
  • Closing (resolved)
  • Technical uncertainty (unknown cause)
  • Empathetic disagreement (pushback on a decision or design)
  • Information request (need more reproduction details or context)

Template Selection Guide

Signal in Issue/Discussion → Response Type Template
New contributor (0 prior issues) Welcome T1
Error message, stack trace, "doesn't work" Troubleshooting T2
"How do I...?", "Can Squad...?", "Is there a way to...?" Feature Guidance T3
Wrong repo, out of scope for Squad Redirect T4
Confirmed bug, no fix available yet Acknowledgment T5
Fix shipped, PR merged that resolves issue Closing T6
Unclear cause, needs investigation Technical Uncertainty T7
Author disagrees with a decision or design Empathetic Disagreement T8
Need more reproduction info or context Information Request T9

Read the full file on GitHub · 330 lines

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. 10d ago First seen · 330 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A a32cc840a78c

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external-comms is a skill published in the GitHub repository elbruno/ElBruno.MempalaceNet (11 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 3,005 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to external-comms, differing in 658 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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