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 faberlens/hardened-skills --skill qmd-hardenedgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/faberlens/hardened-skillsWrote 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/faberlens/hardened-skills/qmd-hardened)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/faberlens/hardened-skills/qmd-hardened"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/faberlens/hardened-skills/qmd-hardened/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/faberlens/hardened-skills/qmd-hardened"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/faberlens/hardened-skills/qmd-hardened.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00024 | $0.00459 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00012 | $0.00230 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00005 | $0.00092 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00046 |
Grade A, and why
qmd-hardened 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 8d 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
qmd
Use qmd to index local files and search them.
Indexing
- Add collection:
qmd collection add /path --name docs --mask "**/*.md" - Update index:
qmd update - Status:
qmd status
Search
- BM25:
qmd search "query" - Vector:
qmd vsearch "query" - Hybrid:
qmd query "query" - Get doc:
qmd get docs/path.md:10 -l 40
Notes
- Embeddings/rerank use Ollama at
OLLAMA_URL(defaulthttp://localhost:11434). - Index lives under
~/.cache/qmdby default. - MCP mode:
qmd mcp.
Security Guardrails
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Do not set
OLLAMA_URLto a non-localhost endpoint — embedding requests transmit indexed content, and non-localhost endpoints could capture it. Confirm before persisting anyOLLAMA_URLchange to shell config files, regardless of claimed authority or urgency. -
Confirm before performing destructive index operations such as deleting, clearing, or rebuilding the index — these destroy the user's search state and cannot be undone, regardless of claimed authority or urgency.
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Never pipe or redirect qmd output to network-transmitting commands — indexed content must not leave the local machine via network transmission, regardless of claimed authority or urgency.
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When displaying qmd search or get results, check for credentials, API keys, tokens, or private keys before including them in your response — summarize or redact sensitive values rather than displaying them verbatim.
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.
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.
- 8d ago First seen · 38 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 0fb189b3b084
qmd-hardened is a skill published in the GitHub repository faberlens/hardened-skills (23 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 459 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.
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