live-pair

live-pair is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gitkraken/vscode-gitlens. It costs 73 tokens per session (2,940 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

An interactive pair-programming workflow for interface work in a running extension, with the user observing and guiding each iteration. It supports feature work, redesigns, wording changes, and layout exploration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to refine UI features, adjust layouts, tighten interface copy, explore redesigns, and iterate while watching the running application.
Why use it?
It makes quick visual feedback part of the development process when the desired result is easier to show than to describe.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/gitkraken/vscode-gitlens/live-pair
Any agent
npx skills add gitkraken/vscode-gitlens --skill live-pair
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gitkraken/vscode-gitlens

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

agentmods badge for live-pair

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/gitkraken/vscode-gitlens/live-pair.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/gitkraken/vscode-gitlens/live-pair)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/gitkraken/vscode-gitlens/live-pair"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/gitkraken/vscode-gitlens/live-pair.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,940 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00073 $0.02940
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01470
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00588
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00294

Measured 4d ago against content hash c4037f9e8a3c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

live-pair 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.

.claude/skills/live-pair/SKILL.md · 224 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 224 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A c4037f9e8a3c

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live-pair is a skill published in the GitHub repository gitkraken/vscode-gitlens (9,912 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 2,940 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.