operate-acp-agent-integration

operate-acp-agent-integration is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gaelic-ghost/socket. It costs 47 tokens per session (847 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for operating ACP agents from clients such as Zed and Xcode. ACP is a protocol that lets an editor or other client launch and communicate with an AI coding agent.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find agents, configure launch commands and credentials, check capabilities, manage sessions, and inspect logs and health checks.
Why use it?
It separates client setup, agent configuration, and protocol problems, making connection failures easier to diagnose. It also helps distinguish the current ACP version from draft designs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the agent-portability-skills plugin — 11 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/gaelic-ghost/socket/operate-acp-agent-integration
Any agent
npx skills add gaelic-ghost/socket --skill operate-acp-agent-integration
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gaelic-ghost/socket

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agent-portability-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 847 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00047 $0.00847
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00424
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00169
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00085

Measured 4d ago against content hash 3a5a1e5465fe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

operate-acp-agent-integration 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 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.

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/agent-portability-skills/skills/operate-acp-agent-integration/SKILL.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Operate ACP Agent Integration

Operate an existing ACP agent without confusing client setup, agent-native configuration, and protocol behavior. Read references/acp-operations-map.md for the current connection and failure map.

Preflight

  1. Name the ACP client and ACP agent/server process.
  2. Treat ACP v1 as the current latest protocol and v2 as draft design work. Check the capabilities negotiated by the actual pair; do not infer wire compatibility from SDK package versions or implement a draft RFD as stable.
  3. Check the canonical ACP Registry with the managed ACP registry checker.
  4. If the agent is missing, use its official local executable only when the client supports custom agents. Keep registry absence distinct from missing ACP support.
  5. Run the agent's documented non-interactive health or version check before opening the client.

For Hermes, check hermes acp --version, hermes acp --check, hermes doctor, and hermes status as needed. ACP reuses Hermes provider credentials, config, skills, and state; it does not create a separate provider setup.

Connect And Validate

  1. Configure the client launch command and environment with the smallest required surface.
  2. Confirm stdout is reserved for JSON-RPC and human-readable logs go to stderr.
  3. Inspect the initialization response for protocol version, agent capabilities, authentication methods, and implementation identity.
  4. Complete agent-owned or terminal authentication before starting a session.
  5. Create a harmless session and verify working-directory binding.
  6. Verify streaming messages, tool calls, file diffs, terminal rendering, permission requests, cancellation, and any advertised load, resume, fork, list, close, mode, or config-option behavior independently.
  7. Verify forwarded MCP servers separately from the agent's native MCP config.

Completed v1 additions include generic session configuration options, session/list, session-information updates, session/resume, and session/close. Elicitation, boolean config-option refinements, session/delete, logout, additional directories, remote transports, and the v2 prompt lifecycle remain draft RFDs unless the live ACP documentation says they have advanced. Gate experimental behavior on explicit capabilities and label it as draft in reports.

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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 · 85 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 3a5a1e5465fe

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operate-acp-agent-integration is a skill published in the GitHub repository gaelic-ghost/socket (7 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 847 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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