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 gtapps/claude-code-hermit --skill downstream-impactgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gtapps/claude-code-hermitWrote 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/gtapps/claude-code-hermit/downstream-impact)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/gtapps/claude-code-hermit/downstream-impact"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/gtapps/claude-code-hermit/downstream-impact/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/gtapps/claude-code-hermit/downstream-impact"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/gtapps/claude-code-hermit/downstream-impact.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00170 | $0.01128 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00068 | $0.00451 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00034 | $0.00226 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00017 | $0.00113 |
Grade A, and why
downstream-impact 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 1mo 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.
This is a copy
100% identical to downstream-impact — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 52 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Downstream Impact
The question behind every invocation: if this ships, what does a hermit running on someone else's box do differently, and what does the person chatting with it notice? Not the diff, not the architecture. The reader is the maintainer deciding whether a change is worth shipping, how to word the changelog, or how to explain it to an operator on Discord.
Read-only. Never edits, commits, or releases.
Usage
/downstream-impact— the change under discussion in this conversation; otherwisegit diff main...HEADplus the working tree; on a cleanmain, every plugin's[Unreleased]section./downstream-impact <PR number>—gh pr diff <N>and the PR body./downstream-impact <branch>— that branch againstmain./downstream-impact <plan file>— the plan's steps, before anything is built./downstream-impact "<described change>"— a change that exists only as an idea; label every claim as assumed.
Step 1 — Locate the touchpoints
A change reaches downstream only through a few surfaces. Read only what the diff (or plan) touches and check each surface:
- Operator chat: channel notices, push notifications,
AskUserQuestionprompts, skill text that composes messages. Does the operator see new, fewer, or differently worded messages? Is there a new thing they can ask for? - Hermit flow: hooks, heartbeat, routines, watches, watchdog, session start/close. Does the hermit wake more, less, or for a different reason? Did a step move from the model to a script, or the reverse?
- Upgrade path:
templates/, migrations,### Upgrade Instructions. What doeshermit-evolverewrite, what does the operator do by hand, what operator-edited file survives. - Gates:
min_claude_code_version,required_core_version, new config keys, permission or deny rules, default on or off. Who is excluded, who has to opt in. - Cost: per-wake context, hook stdout, new always-loaded text.
- Reach:
mainis staging. Installed operators see nothing until the plugin'sversionbumps;--plugin-dirtesters and fresh installs seemainHEAD. Say which group this reaches today.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 52 lines · 170 tokens per session scan A b1fe9f4d15a5
downstream-impact is a skill published in the GitHub repository gtapps/claude-code-hermit (75 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 170 tokens to every session and 1,128 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to downstream-impact, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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