anvil-errand

anvil-errand is a skill for Claude Code from fledgeling-co/fledgeling-plugins. It costs 232 tokens per session (1,710 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for sending a Claude Code agent to run inside a container on another machine. It checks that all required parts are available before starting.

In plain words
What is it for?
It checks readiness, starts and monitors remote agent tasks, stops them, and limits retries when something is missing.
Why use it?
It avoids discovering a missing connection, tool, or setup step after the container has already started, and explains refusals with stable error identifiers.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code; mentions Gemini CLI.

Part of the anvil-errand plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit It checks readiness, starts and monitors remote agent tasks, stops them, and limits retries when something is missing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fledgeling-co/fledgeling-plugins/anvil-errand
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.

Any agent
npx skills add fledgeling-co/fledgeling-plugins --skill anvil-errand
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fledgeling-co/fledgeling-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install anvil-errand, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 232 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,710 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00232 $0.01710
Opus 5 $0.00116 $0.00855
Sonnet 5 $0.00046 $0.00342
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00171

Measured today against content hash 0248e67ba7a6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

anvil-errand 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 today.

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.

plugins/anvil-errand/skills/anvil-errand/SKILL.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

anvil-errand

Run a Claude Code agent in a container on a machine that is not this one.

anvil errand is one name for a path whose pieces already existed and were proved on hardware separately. The verb's own contribution is small and specific: it asks whether every piece is in place before anything starts, and when one is missing it says which, by a stable identifier, with the step that fixes it.

That is the whole reason to prefer it over typing the underlying commands. The failure it removes is not "the errand did not work" — it is discovering the missing piece halfway through a container start, from a symptom that points somewhere else.

Running as a Gemini model? Read gemini.md in this directory first, then follow this file with the overrides it names. Pastes the --check output and the refusal kind rather than describing them, reads docs/ERRAND_RUNBOOK.md before naming a next step, and caps retries so a refusal is answered rather than re-run. Other models skip it.

The loop

anvil errand --check                    # can this work? changes nothing
anvil errand -p "review /work/ and list the three worst bugs"

--check runs the preflight and stops. Everything after the verb is the agent's own argv, appended to the image's entrypoint — so -p, --model, --output-format stream-json --verbose and the rest reach Claude Code itself.

--check is positional and taken only immediately after the verb, so a prompt that happens to contain the word (anvil errand -p "explain --check to me") still runs.

Watch and stop it with the ordinary verbs — the errand is a normal job:

anvil ls                      # the job id
anvil attach <job-id>         # its own stdout, streamed; read-only by design
anvil wait <job-id>           # blocks, exits with the workload's own code
anvil stop <job-id>

anvil attach will not accept keystrokes and that is not a fault: the container is started detached, so PID 1's stdin is at EOF from the first instant. Use anvil exec <job-id> -- <cmd> to open a separate process beside the agent.

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 lines

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. today Changed 0248e67ba7a6
  2. 8d ago First seen · 121 lines · 232 tokens per session scan A 2f58b75a90d4

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anvil-errand is a skill published in the GitHub repository fledgeling-co/fledgeling-plugins (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 232 tokens to every session and 1,710 once invoked, about $0.0012 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 2026-08-31.

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