routine-test-ping

routine-test-ping is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gtapps/claude-code-hermit. It costs 39 tokens per session (124 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A small check for a routine monitor that records whether a scheduled routine fired. It only adds a timestamped line to a monitoring log.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test that a routine-triggering system fires correctly and records the event in its session log.
Why use it?
It provides a simple proof that the monitor is still running without sending messages or performing further checks.

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/gtapps/claude-code-hermit/routine-test-ping
Any agent
npx skills add gtapps/claude-code-hermit --skill routine-test-ping
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gtapps/claude-code-hermit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 124 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 $0.00039 $0.00124
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00062
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00025
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00012

Measured today against content hash 5df6665871f3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

routine-test-ping 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 today.

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.

.agents/skills/routine-test-ping/SKILL.md · 19 lines

What it actually says

Routine Test Ping

Proof-of-life for the routine monitor — confirms a routine still fires correctly. No side effects beyond a log line.

Steps

Append one line to .claude-code-hermit/sessions/SHELL.md under ## Monitoring:

[HH:MM] routine-test-ping: fired.

Stop. No channel send, no further checks.

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. today Changed · +5 lines · +39 tokens per session 5df6665871f3
  2. 4d ago First seen · 14 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 7f72dee24a81

Subscribe to this mod's changes

routine-test-ping is a skill published in the GitHub repository gtapps/claude-code-hermit (73 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 124 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 2026-08-30.

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