Getting it into your agent
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fanfan-de/anyboxnpx agentmods add skills/fanfan-de/anybox/latex-compileWrote 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/fanfan-de/anybox/latex-compile)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/fanfan-de/anybox/latex-compile"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fanfan-de/anybox/latex-compile/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/fanfan-de/anybox/latex-compile"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fanfan-de/anybox/latex-compile.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 | $0.00036 | $0.00381 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00018 | $0.00191 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00076 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00038 |
Grade A, and why
latex-compile 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 9d 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
LaTeX Compile
Use this skill when the user asks to build, render, regenerate, or compile a .tex file.
Run from the plugin root:
python3 scripts/compile_latex.py /absolute/path/to/main.tex
Default auto mode uses Tectonic first only when the project looks simple enough not to need a full TeX Live toolchain. It falls back to TeX Live or MacTeX when Tectonic fails or when the project uses bibliography, shell-escape, index/glossary, or explicit non-Tectonic engine features.
Common options:
python3 scripts/compile_latex.py /absolute/path/to/main.tex --compiler tectonic
python3 scripts/compile_latex.py /absolute/path/to/main.tex --compiler texlive
python3 scripts/compile_latex.py /absolute/path/to/main.tex --engine xelatex
python3 scripts/compile_latex.py /absolute/path/to/main.tex --output-directory /absolute/path/to/build
python3 scripts/compile_latex.py /absolute/path/to/main.tex --json
Behavior
- Detects bundled or PATH Tectonic and existing TeX Live or MacTeX.
- Honors a leading
% !TEX root = ...directive when present. - Uses
latexmkfor TeX Live builds when available. - Enables SyncTeX with
-synctex=1for TeX Live builds. - Does not install TeX.
If neither Tectonic nor a usable TeX installation is found, stop and route to latex-doctor or texlive-runtime-installer.
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 37 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 7f75388cc330
latex-compile is a skill published in the GitHub repository fanfan-de/anybox (57 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 381 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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