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 frankxai/claude-skills-library --skill search-firstgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/frankxai/claude-skills-libraryWrote 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/frankxai/claude-skills-library/search-first)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/frankxai/claude-skills-library/search-first"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/frankxai/claude-skills-library/search-first/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/frankxai/claude-skills-library/search-first"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/frankxai/claude-skills-library/search-first.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 | $0.00042 | $0.00502 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00017 | $0.00201 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00100 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00050 |
Grade A, and why
search-first 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 17d 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
Search before you add a folder
On this machine the search order is fixed. Do the steps you can, then write.
- Match the name under
C:/Users/frank/starlight/repos. Do not recurse fromC:\, from the home directory, or from This PC. Phone Link will download files if you do. - Check
ghforfrankxaiand, when the brand is Arcanea, the dormantArcanea-Labsorg. - Read the domain guide that already owns the topic.
- Pick one child repo. Record path, git toplevel, origin, and branch.
- Run
python C:/Users/frank/.starlight/workspace-bootstrap/route_work.py guardfrom that repo. A refuse means you are still in the wrong place.
What you may install
pnpmwhen the lockfile is pnpm.uvfor Python. Podman when a container is required.- A single named skill whose license is MIT, Apache-2.0, BSD, ISC, CC0, CC-BY, or Unlicense.
What you do not install
- A catalog, a marketplace
fullprofile, or a second orchestrator. - A new top-level folder under
C:/Users/frank. - Anything from
C:/Users/frank/universe. That tree is quarantined.
Decision
- Depend, when their repo is the runtime and you can pin a commit.
- Absorb, when the value is a procedure and you can re-express it through
node scripts/absorb.mjsin the skills library. - Adapt, only for a system this machine already runs.
- Build, when the first three searches came back empty and you wrote down what you searched.
Where this came from
The adopt-or-build choice follows affaan-m/ECC skills/search-first at 4eb71d92a39cab44ad40ac9d8a6a5ccb4029d6c2 (MIT). The path order, the Phone Link ban, and the location gate are estate rules.
Built on SIP.
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.
- 17d ago First seen · 40 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 8754f8cefdf1
search-first is a skill published in the GitHub repository frankxai/claude-skills-library (47 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 502 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-11.
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