Codewhale is an open-source coding agent that runs in the terminal and can read repositories, edit files, execute commands, and inspect results while pursuing a task. Developers use it with hosted providers or local models, with controls for how much access it receives.
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 Hmbown/Codewhale --skill shoppinggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Hmbown/CodewhaleWrote 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/hmbown/codewhale/shopping)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/hmbown/codewhale/shopping"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hmbown/codewhale/shopping/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/hmbown/codewhale/shopping"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hmbown/codewhale/shopping.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00000 | $0.00238 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00095 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00048 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00024 |
Grade A, and why
shopping 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 29d 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.
What it actually says
name: shopping description: Product research — compare options, prices, and reviews. Use when: buy, shopping, product recommendation, compare prices, best X to buy, or is this a good deal. invocation: model+user
Shopping
When to use
Helping the user choose what to buy: shortlists, comparisons, price checks, and deal evaluation.
Setup
None — web research only. Fail loud when the request needs a logged-in store account (order history, cart).
Workflow
- Pin the budget, must-have features, and deal-breakers before researching.
- Research with web search: reviews, roundups, and retailer listings.
- Present a comparison table (option, price, key specs, standout review point), then one recommendation with its tradeoff.
- For deal questions, check price history where available (e.g. camelcamelcamel for Amazon) and say when history is unavailable.
Non-goals
- Do not purchase anything or enter payment details. Ever.
- Do not add to carts or create store accounts.
- Do not present sponsored results as editorial picks.
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.
- 29d ago First seen · 29 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 71e5ac124c76
shopping is a skill published in the GitHub repository Hmbown/Codewhale (41,035 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 238 tokens. 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 2026-09-19.
Other skills, from other repositories
best-of-n
Generate a small set of independent candidate solutions in worktrees, judge them against one explicit rubric, and apply the winner only after PASS verification.
contributor-onboarding
Help a new contributor get productive on this checkout - inspect sync state against main, build, run the repository's exact verification gate, and produce a local what's-new digest. Never fetches, pulls, or modifies a dirty tree on its own. Explicit-only.
fleet-manager
Use when managing, triaging, restarting, escalating, or summarizing Codewhale fleet runs and workers.
handoff
Write a compact, decision-ready handoff so the next session (or the user) can continue without reconstructing the current one. Use when the session is ending, context is running low, the user asks for a handoff / 'pass the baton' / 'hand off', or a long-running operation needs a durable state checkpoint.
plugin-creator
Scaffold a local Codewhale plugin bundle with a versioned manifest, namespaced Skills, and an explicit trust review.
codew-release-qa-sweep
Use before claiming Codewhale release work is done: run the full gate sweep and list the manual QA targets.