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 erichare/skillroute --skill astra-vector-backendgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/erichare/skillrouteWrote 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/erichare/skillroute/astra-vector-backend)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/erichare/skillroute/astra-vector-backend"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/erichare/skillroute/astra-vector-backend/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/erichare/skillroute/astra-vector-backend"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/erichare/skillroute/astra-vector-backend.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00027 | $0.00121 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00048 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00024 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00012 |
Grade A, and why
astra-vector-backend 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 1mo 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
Astra Vector Backend
Use this skill for Astra DB Data API integrations, vector indexes, retrieval metadata, and LangChain-compatible vector store adapters.
When to Use
- Add a vector backend behind a provider-neutral interface.
- Store skill routing metadata in Astra DB.
- Validate retrieval payloads and metadata filtering behavior.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 19 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 994c521b28e5
astra-vector-backend is a skill published in the GitHub repository erichare/skillroute (41 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 121 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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