open-weights

open-weights is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ericrisco/rsc-harness. It costs 146 tokens per session (4,580 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision guide for choosing open-weight language models—models whose files can be downloaded and run under stated terms—and checking whether their licences allow your intended use. It considers the task, available hardware, budget, model size, and shipping requirements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare model families and sizes, estimate hardware needs, classify licence restrictions, and clear a model for release.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of choosing a model that does not fit your machine or whose licence prevents commercial distribution. It also reminds you to verify current terms in the model card, the document published with a model.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to compare model families and sizes, estimate hardware needs, classify licence restrictions, and clear a model for release.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ericrisco/rsc-harness/open-weights
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 ericrisco/rsc-harness --skill open-weights
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ericrisco/rsc-harness

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for open-weights

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 146 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,580 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00146 $0.04580
Opus 5.5 $0.00058 $0.01832
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00029 $0.00916
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00458

Measured 1mo ago against content hash e628511e0b4a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

open-weights 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.

skills/open-weights/SKILL.md · 240 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 240 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Open weights — pick the model, then clear the license

This is the CHOICE layer. Given a task, a box, and a shipping constraint, it tells you which open model to reach for and whether the license lets you ship it. It does not download, run, serve, or fine-tune anything — it feeds the skills that do (see Related skills).

The one rule (read before you name a model)

Model names and their licenses change monthly. Never state a license from memory — open the model card and confirm it, every time. This file was authored against cards live in mid-2026; by the time you read it, versions have shipped and terms have moved. So:

  • Treat every specific version/license line below as [verify the card], not as settled fact.
  • State the license class (OSI-open vs custom-community vs restricted), then send the reader to the actual LICENSE / terms page for the exact model + size they intend to ship.
  • The decision framework and the class taxonomy are the durable parts. The version list is the perishable part. Weight your trust accordingly.

Real, verified-mid-2026 examples of why this rule exists — all confirmed against the source, and all things that were different at my Jan-2026 cutoff:

  • Gemma 4 moved to Apache-2.0, while Gemma 1–3 stay on the custom Gemma Terms of Use (confirmed on ai.google.dev/gemma/terms, accessed 2026-07-18). Same brand, opposite license class depending on version.
  • Codestral 2 was relicensed Apache-2.0 (per Mistral, Apr 2026), while the original Codestral stays non-production (MNPL). Same name, opposite shippability depending on release.
  • DeepSeek-R1 is MIT, but the original DeepSeek-V3 weights ship under a custom DeepSeek License Agreement with OpenRAIL-style use restrictions (confirmed on the V3 LICENSE-MODEL), not MIT. Same family, different license per model.

Read the full file on GitHub · 240 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files 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. 1mo ago First seen · 240 lines · 146 tokens per session scan A e628511e0b4a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

open-weights is a skill published in the GitHub repository ericrisco/rsc-harness (239 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 146 tokens to every session and 4,580 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-09-03.

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