http_request

A tool for sending requests to web APIs, which are services that exchange data with other programs. It supports common request types such as GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, and PATCH.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to call REST APIs, retrieve JSON, submit request bodies, test endpoints, or access services that require authorization headers.
Why use it?
It makes it easier to fetch data, send JSON, add request headers, and test API endpoints without writing a separate client.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 401 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00079 $0.00401
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00200
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00080
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00040

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5cbd111d2b41, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

http_request scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 (request.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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

web search (use tavily_search), or file downloads (use curl/wget).
pythonclaw/templates/skills/dev/http_request/SKILL.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

HTTP Request

When to Use

  • Call REST APIs (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, PATCH)
  • Test or probe API endpoints
  • Fetch JSON or data from a URL
  • Send request bodies and custom headers

When NOT to Use

  • Web search — use tavily_search (web_search tool)
  • Scraping page content — use web_scraper
  • Simple file downloads — use curl or wget
  • GitHub operations — use github skill

Setup

Install dependency: pip install requests

Usage/Commands

python {skill_path}/request.py URL [options]
Option Description
`--method GET POST
--data '{"key": "value"}' JSON request body
--header "Name: Value" Custom header (repeatable)
--timeout N Timeout in seconds
`--format text json

Notes

  • For APIs requiring auth, use --header "Authorization: Bearer <token>"
  • JSON body must be valid; escape quotes properly for shell
  • Prefer this for structured API calls; use web_scraper for HTML extraction
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 · 51 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 5cbd111d2b41

Subscribe to this mod's changes

http_request is a skill published in the GitHub repository ericwang915/PythonClaw (41 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 401 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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