vl-stage

vl-stage is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from giltotherescue/velocity-agent-skills. It costs 108 tokens per session (2,396 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating an isolated place to run and test a branch, worktree, local app, or cloud-agent task. A worktree is a separate working copy of a Git repository, and a dev server makes an app available at a local URL.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to select and set up a test environment for JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, PHP, Docker Compose, or cloud-agent web-app work.
Why use it?
It helps test browser-facing changes without disturbing the main checkout or choosing a more complicated setup than the task needs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to select and set up a test environment for JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, PHP, Docker Compose, or cloud-agent web-app work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/giltotherescue/velocity-agent-skills/vl-stage
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 giltotherescue/velocity-agent-skills --skill vl-stage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/giltotherescue/velocity-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 108 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,396 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00108 $0.02396
Opus 5 $0.00054 $0.01198
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00479
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00240

Measured 12d ago against content hash 2e7960500cc3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vl-stage scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 12d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

If the platform exposes forwarded ports, start the app with the normal dev command and verify the printed or forwarded URL. If not, verify with local `curl` from inside the sandbox:
skills/vl-stage/SKILL.md · 270 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 270 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Velocity Stage

Use this skill when work needs to run somewhere real: a local URL, dev server, container, framework-specific local environment, isolated worktree, or cloud-agent sandbox. It is especially useful for web apps, where browser-facing behavior needs to be tested like a user without disrupting the user's main checkout.

Prefer the simplest strategy that proves the work:

  • Existing checkout + dev server when there is no isolation risk.
  • Existing git worktree when one already exists.
  • New git worktree when the main checkout is busy or the user asks for parallel work.
  • Framework dev server for most JS, Python, Rails, or PHP apps.
  • Docker Compose when the project already uses it.
  • Framework-specific local hosting when that is clearly the project's convention.
  • Existing cloud-agent environment when the task is already running in a remote sandbox.

Cloud-Agent Compatibility

Cloud agents such as Claude Code on the web, Cursor cloud agents, and Codex web often already run each task in an isolated cloud environment. In that context, the cloud environment is usually the stage.

Before doing local-machine setup, detect whether the session is remote or ephemeral:

env | sort | rg -i 'CODEX|CLAUDE|CURSOR|CODESPACE|GITHUB_ACTIONS|CI|REMOTE|CONTAINER|DEVCONTAINER'
pwd
hostname
git worktree list

When running in a cloud-agent environment:

  • Prefer the existing checkout/sandbox over creating or moving git worktrees.
  • Do not assume access to the user's local browser, localhost from their machine, Herd/Valet, desktop apps, keychain, or parked site directories.
  • Prefer project setup scripts, checked-in devcontainer/Dockerfile config, package scripts, and documented test commands.
  • Start servers on 127.0.0.1 or 0.0.0.0 only when the platform supports local port access or browser automation from inside the sandbox.
  • Use headless browser tools when available. If they are not available, run build/test/static checks and document that interactive browser verification was not possible in the cloud environment.
  • Treat secrets and network access as environment-scoped. Do not ask the user to paste secrets into chat; ask them to configure environment secrets/settings when needed.
  • Save review artifacts inside the repository or a clearly named artifact folder so they can be included in the branch, PR, or handoff.
  • Make teardown lightweight: stop processes you started, but do not remove the cloud checkout unless the platform explicitly requires it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 270 lines

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. 12d ago First seen · 270 lines · 108 tokens per session scan A 2e7960500cc3

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vl-stage is a skill published in the GitHub repository giltotherescue/velocity-agent-skills (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 108 tokens to every session and 2,396 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (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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