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 flurdy/agent-skills --skill tidy-settingsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/flurdy/agent-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
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[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/flurdy/agent-skills/tidy-settings)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/flurdy/agent-skills/tidy-settings"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/flurdy/agent-skills/tidy-settings.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 10 findings, up to high
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- high Agent Snooping · line 90 Skill reads from agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). These directories may contain API keys, personal settings, and other credentials that the skill has no legitimate need to access.Fix: Remove all code or instructions that access agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). If configuration values are needed, pass them explicitly as parameters or environment variabl
- high Agent Snooping · line 172 Skill reads from agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). These directories may contain API keys, personal settings, and other credentials that the skill has no legitimate need to access.Fix: Remove all code or instructions that access agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). If configuration values are needed, pass them explicitly as parameters or environment variabl
- high Agent Snooping · line 191 Skill reads from agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). These directories may contain API keys, personal settings, and other credentials that the skill has no legitimate need to access.Fix: Remove all code or instructions that access agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). If configuration values are needed, pass them explicitly as parameters or environment variabl
- high Agent Snooping · line 254 Skill reads from agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). These directories may contain API keys, personal settings, and other credentials that the skill has no legitimate need to access.Fix: Remove all code or instructions that access agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). If configuration values are needed, pass them explicitly as parameters or environment variabl
- high Agent Snooping · line 117 Skill reads from agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). These directories may contain API keys, personal settings, and other credentials that the skill has no legitimate need to access.Fix: Remove all code or instructions that access agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). If configuration values are needed, pass them explicitly as parameters or environment variabl
- high Agent Snooping · line 158 Skill reads from agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). These directories may contain API keys, personal settings, and other credentials that the skill has no legitimate need to access.Fix: Remove all code or instructions that access agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). If configuration values are needed, pass them explicitly as parameters or environment variabl
- high Agent Snooping · line 117 Skill reads from agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). These directories may contain API keys, personal settings, and other credentials that the skill has no legitimate need to access.Fix: Remove all code or instructions that access agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). If configuration values are needed, pass them explicitly as parameters or environment variabl
- high Agent Snooping · line 175 Skill reads from agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). These directories may contain API keys, personal settings, and other credentials that the skill has no legitimate need to access.Fix: Remove all code or instructions that access agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). If configuration values are needed, pass them explicitly as parameters or environment variabl
- medium Rogue Agent · line 174 Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
- medium Excessive Agency · line 6 Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
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 | $0.00054 | $0.03904 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00027 | $0.01952 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00011 | $0.00781 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00390 |
Grade A, and why
tidy-settings scanned grade A with 2 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.
Reads agent configuration directorieslowAgent snooping
.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.
- `---USER---` — `~/.claude/settings.json` / `settings.local.json` (always checked). Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
Occasional housekeeping on your Claude permissions. Settings files accumulate cruft: the same permission added narrowly five times, references to skills/scripts that no longer exist, redundant entries that one user-level How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 275 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Tidy Settings
Occasional housekeeping on your Claude permissions. Settings files accumulate cruft: the same permission added narrowly five times, references to skills/scripts that no longer exist, redundant entries that one user-level rule already covers, and the occasional risky Bash(curl:*) you wish you hadn't accepted.
This skill cleans the mechanical noise itself and surfaces the judgment-heavy items for your review.
When to use
- Periodically (every few weeks), when settings files feel cluttered.
- After a long stretch where you've been clicking "Yes" to permission prompts and want to see what stuck.
- Before sharing or committing a project-level
settings.json— to make sure it's tidy and free of personal/local lines.
Complementary to fewer-permission-prompts (which adds permissions); this cleans them.
What it does
Auto-applied (mechanical, safe):
- Canonical sort: arrays grouped by tool prefix (
Bash,Edit,Read,Write,WebFetch,WebSearch,Skill,Task,mcp__*), alphabetical within group. - Exact dedupe.
- Backup files (
.bak) written alongside each modified file.
Reported for your judgment (never auto-removed):
- Risk flags — entries matching known-risky patterns (
Bash(rm:*),Bash(curl:*),WebFetch(*),Read(//...), unrestricted Edit/Write, etc.). - Broken refs —
Bash(~/path/...)orBash(/abs/path/...)pointing at missing files;Skill(name)for skills not installed. - Subsumed entries — narrow entry covered by a broader
:*entry in the same section of the same file (allow vs allow, deny vs deny, ask vs ask). The narrow one is technically redundant, but see "Subsumption trade-off" below before recommending which to remove. - Syntax errors — entries that don't parse as a known permission shape.
- Cross-section conflicts — an entry in
allowshadowed by a wider:*entry indeny(deny wins, so the allow is dead code). - Cross-file duplicates — same entry in multiple files. Often means an item should be promoted to user level (and removed from project locals), or vice versa if it references a project-specific path.
What ships with it
2 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.
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.
- today Changed · -15 tokens per session 4bb78c8934ca
- 8d ago First seen · 275 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 5e1a59be5313
tidy-settings is a skill published in the GitHub repository flurdy/agent-skills (9 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 3,904 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 2 findings (reads agent configuration directories, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.
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