change_setting

A runtime configuration editor for PythonClaw, an AI-agent application.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to view settings and update API keys, service tokens, the language-model provider, web ports, or email and messaging credentials.
Why use it?
It avoids manually editing configuration files when changing providers, credentials, ports, or other settings.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ericwang915/pythonclaw/change_setting
Any agent
npx skills add ericwang915/PythonClaw --skill change_setting
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ericwang915/PythonClaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 544 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00056 $0.00544
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00272
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00109
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00054

Measured 2d ago against content hash 643554849e45, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

change_setting 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (update_config.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

pythonclaw/templates/skills/system/change_setting/SKILL.md · 70 lines

What it actually says

Change Setting Skill

Modify pythonclaw.json configuration at runtime.

When to Use

USE this skill when:

  • "Set my API key to ..."
  • "Change LLM provider to Claude"
  • "Update my Tavily/Telegram/GitHub token"
  • "Change the web port to 8080"
  • "Configure email credentials"
  • User wants to change any runtime setting without editing files manually

When NOT to Use

DON'T use this skill when:

  • Changing agent personality or identity → use change_persona or change_soul
  • Editing Python code or skill files → use file edit tools
  • Adding/removing skills → use skill management or manual file edits

Usage/Commands

Show current config:

python {skill_path}/update_config.py --show

Update a value (dot-notation for key path):

python {skill_path}/update_config.py --set "llm.deepseek.apiKey" "sk-xxx"

Examples:

# Change LLM provider
python {skill_path}/update_config.py --set "llm.provider" "claude"

# Set Tavily API key
python {skill_path}/update_config.py --set "tavily.apiKey" "tvly-xxx"

# Set Telegram token
python {skill_path}/update_config.py --set "channels.telegram.token" "123:ABC"

# Set GitHub token
python {skill_path}/update_config.py --set "skills.github.token" "ghp_xxx"

# Change web port
python {skill_path}/update_config.py --set "web.port" "8080"

# Set email credentials
python {skill_path}/update_config.py --set "skills.email.senderEmail" "[email protected]"
python {skill_path}/update_config.py --set "skills.email.senderPassword" "app-password"

After updating, tell the user the change was saved and whether a restart is needed to take effect.

Notes

  • Uses bundled update_config.py to read and update pythonclaw.json
  • API keys, passwords, and tokens are masked when displaying config
  • Only pythonclaw.json is modified — no other files
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. 2d ago First seen · 70 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 643554849e45

Subscribe to this mod's changes

change_setting is a skill published in the GitHub repository ericwang915/PythonClaw (41 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 544 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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