Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add G1Joshi/Agent-Skills --skill catboostgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/G1Joshi/Agent-SkillsWrote this? Show the measurements
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[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/g1joshi/agent-skills/catboost)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/g1joshi/agent-skills/catboost"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/g1joshi/agent-skills/catboost.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" 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 | $0.00017 | $0.00211 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00105 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00003 | $0.00042 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00021 |
Grade A, and why
catboost 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 6d 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
CatBoost
CatBoost (Yandex) is arguably the easiest boosting library to use because it handles Categorical Features automatically and perfectly without tuning.
When to Use
- Categorical Data: If you have many strings/IDs, CatBoost is king.
- Default Params: Works incredibly well out of the box.
Core Concepts
Ordered Boosting
A technique to avoid target leakage (overfitting) during training.
Symmetric Trees
Builds balanced trees, which are faster at inference time.
Best Practices (2025)
Do:
- Use pool:
Pool()is efficient for data loading. - Use GPU: CatBoost's GPU implementation is highly optimized.
Don't:
- Don't One-Hot Encode: Let CatBoost handle it natively.
References
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.
- 6d ago First seen · 39 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A f6fb6423cc48
catboost is a skill published in the GitHub repository G1Joshi/Agent-Skills (12 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 211 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.
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