routine-test-ping

routine-test-ping is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gtapps/hermitd. It costs 39 tokens per session (121 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A scheduled monitoring check that appends a timestamped proof-of-life line to a session log. It is intended to confirm that the routine monitor still runs.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is only for the routine scheduler to update the monitoring section of SHELL.md; it is not intended for direct operator use.
Why use it?
It provides a small record showing that the scheduled trigger fired, without performing other checks or sending messages.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit It is only for the routine scheduler to update the monitoring section of SHELL.md; it is not intended for direct operator use.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gtapps/hermitd/routine-test-ping
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

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 121 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00039 $0.00121
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00048
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00024
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00012

Measured 11d ago against content hash 6d55364796f3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 11d 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.

.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 .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. 11d ago First seen · 19 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 6d55364796f3

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routine-test-ping is a skill published in the GitHub repository gtapps/hermitd (79 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 121 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-02.

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