happier: Skill for Codex

.agents/skills/happier-compatibility/SKILL.md

happier-compatibility is a skill for Codex from happier-dev/happier. It costs 76 tokens per session (1,537 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for checking that Happier, a software system, continues to work across its user interface, command-line tools, server, installers, and stored data when versions change.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing shared interfaces, saved-data formats, version negotiation, migrations, encryption, providers, installers, or upgrade and rollback behavior.
Why use it?
It helps prevent newer and older parts of the system from disagreeing about messages, settings, sessions, upgrades, or saved data.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is happier-dev/happier's own configuration. It tells Codex how to work on happier itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything happier configures →

About the project

Happier is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted client that lets people run AI coding-agent sessions on a computer and continue controlling them from a phone, browser, or desktop app. It is for developers who use agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, or OpenCode across multiple devices, with self-hosting available. The catalogue entries are add-ons for configuring or extending this client and its supported coding-agent workflows.

happier-dev/happier · 1,624 stars · on GitHub · happier.dev

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to happier-dev/happier. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/happier-dev/happier/dev/.agents/skills/happier-compatibility/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/happier-dev/happier

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,537 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 5.1 $0.00076 $0.01537
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00768
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00307
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00154

Measured yesterday against content hash 4b53a6953faf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

happier-compatibility 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 yesterday.

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/happier-compatibility/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Happier Compatibility

Preserve real released and prospective predecessor behavior at system seams without preserving undeployed internal architecture or creating speculative compatibility debt.

Read docs/compatibility.md before acting. Also read the owning package instructions and the domain document for the affected protocol, feature, encryption, provider, installer, or persistence surface.

1. Classify the surface

Name the observable contract and classify it as wire, semantic, persistence, operational/installer, or internal-only.

If the change is internal-only and leaves external readers, writers, artifacts, and rollout behavior unchanged, stop the compatibility workflow. Do not create a matrix, shim, migration, or compatibility test merely because code moved.

2. Establish evidence-backed baselines

  • Resolve active stable and preview baselines independently for every affected component. Record immutable version tag, commit, and artifact/deploy evidence; do not use a rolling tag alone as the final basis.
  • Include older versions only when explicitly supported.
  • Exclude dev builds, undeployed internal paths, and abandoned intermediates from lasting obligations.
  • Apply any repository-specific predecessor rule in docs/compatibility.md. When it requires a live sibling worktree, inspect committed, staged, and unstaged code without modifying it and label observed versus inferred behavior.

Do not proceed from a vague claim such as “the old client probably sends this.” Inspect the released/predecessor producer, reader, serializer, artifact, or pinned golden vector.

Before building against an external or another-program-owned contract, characterize its success, failure, cancellation, and recovery behavior as provenance-pinned RED fixtures or runtime observations. Freeze the exact contract basis for the implementation/review slice; do not repeatedly review line-level adapters against a moving producer.

3. Map the corridor and close split-brains

Inventory the canonical owner and all affected producers, consumers, readers, writers, parsers, serializers, registries, decisions, persistence shapes, tests, and adapters.

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. yesterday Changed 4b53a6953faf
  2. 3d ago First seen · 103 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A bb46a769448f

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happier-compatibility is a skill published in the GitHub repository happier-dev/happier (1,624 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 1,537 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 2026-09-03.

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