falco

falco is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fastly/fastly-agent-toolkit. It costs 173 tokens per session (2,316 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A development tool for Fastly VCL, the configuration language used to control how Fastly's edge network handles web requests. It checks, tests, simulates, and formats VCL code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to lint, test, simulate, format, and inspect Fastly VCL files, including VCL embedded in Terraform plans and XVCL scripts.
Why use it?
It helps catch VCL errors and understand Fastly-specific rules before deploying changes to a live service.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the fastly-agent-toolkit plugin — 10 skills shipped together

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/fastly/fastly-agent-toolkit/falco
Any agent
npx skills add fastly/fastly-agent-toolkit --skill falco
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fastly/fastly-agent-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install fastly-agent-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

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.

agentmods badge for falco

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fastly/fastly-agent-toolkit/falco.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/fastly/fastly-agent-toolkit/falco)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/fastly/fastly-agent-toolkit/falco"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fastly/fastly-agent-toolkit/falco.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 173 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,316 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 $0.00173 $0.02316
Opus 5 $0.00086 $0.01158
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.00463
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00232

Measured 4d ago against content hash 3f428cde4558, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

falco 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 4d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

# Default port is 3124. Test with: curl http://localhost:3124/path
skills/falco/SKILL.md · 181 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 181 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Trigger and scope

Trigger on: VCL files, .vcl extensions, XVCL files, .xvcl extensions, falco CLI, VCL unit tests, VCL linting/simulation/formatting, VCL REPL, beresp/bereq/req.http variables, subroutine scopes, backend/ACL/director/table declarations, edge dictionaries, validating VCL in Terraform plans, or running/testing XVCL scripts locally.

Do NOT use for: generic non-Fastly VCL, Fastly Compute/WASM, Fastly API/dashboard ops, CDN comparison, cache purging, or authoring Terraform resources.

Falco — VCL Development Tool & Reference

Falco is a Fastly VCL development tool for linting, testing, simulating, and formatting VCL code. Equally important, the falco source code is the most complete machine-readable specification of Fastly's VCL dialect — its parser, interpreter, and type system document every variable, function, type, and scope rule in VCL.

Official VCL documentation: https://www.fastly.com/documentation/guides/full-site-delivery/fastly-vcl/about-fastly-vcl/

Falco documentation: https://github.com/ysugimoto/falco

Using Falco Source as VCL Reference

If you need to understand how VCL works — what variables exist, which scopes they're available in, what functions are built-in, how types coerce — the falco source code is your best reference. It's a complete Go implementation of Fastly's VCL 2.x and is more precise than prose documentation.

If the falco source is not available locally, recommend cloning it:

git clone https://github.com/ysugimoto/falco.git ~/src/falco

Once available locally, read the source files directly to answer VCL questions. See understanding-vcl-from-source.md for a detailed guide on which files to read for different VCL topics.

Install

# Homebrew
brew install falco

# From source (requires Go 1.25+)
go install github.com/ysugimoto/falco/cmd/falco@latest

# Or clone and build
git clone https://github.com/ysugimoto/falco.git
cd falco
make darwin_arm64    # or darwin_amd64, linux_amd64, linux_arm64

Read the full file on GitHub · 181 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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. 4d ago First seen · 181 lines · 173 tokens per session scan A 3f428cde4558

Subscribe to this mod's changes

falco is a skill published in the GitHub repository fastly/fastly-agent-toolkit (32 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 173 tokens to every session and 2,316 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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