proactive-intelligence

proactive-intelligence is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from itallstartedwithaidea/agent-skills. It costs 38 tokens per session (2,784 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions that lets an agent look for outside information when its current data may be missing, outdated, or inconsistent.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for fresh web searches, repeated API checks, data-freshness checks, competitor research, industry comparisons, and policy or platform updates.
Why use it?
It reduces reliance on guesses or stale context by prompting the agent to check current sources when that would improve an answer.

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/itallstartedwithaidea/agent-skills/proactive-intelligence
Any agent
npx skills add itallstartedwithaidea/agent-skills --skill proactive-intelligence
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/itallstartedwithaidea/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,784 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 $0.00038 $0.02784
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01392
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00557
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00278

Measured 4d ago against content hash d002693a0b0f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

proactive-intelligence 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 4d 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.

skills/ai-agent-engineering/proactive-intelligence/SKILL.md · 267 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 267 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Proactive Intelligence

Part of Agent Skills™ by googleadsagent.ai™

Description

Proactive Intelligence enables agents to autonomously seek out external information — web searches, API re-pulls, data freshness checks — during analysis without waiting for explicit user requests. Traditional reactive agents only work with the data provided to them. Proactive agents recognize when their current context is insufficient, stale, or contradictory, and take independent action to fill knowledge gaps. This transforms the agent from a passive processor into an active investigator that delivers more accurate, more current, and more comprehensive results.

This skill is modeled on the search_web tool integration in the Buddy™ agent at googleadsagent.ai™, where the agent autonomously searches for competitor data, industry benchmarks, recent Google Ads policy changes, and platform updates when it detects that such information would improve its analysis. When Buddy™ encounters a campaign strategy it hasn't seen before, or metrics that deviate significantly from expected ranges, it proactively searches for context rather than speculating. This behavior is triggered by explicit conditions, not random curiosity, ensuring the additional latency and cost are justified.

The proactive intelligence framework operates on a trigger-search-integrate cycle: the agent evaluates trigger conditions during analysis, dispatches targeted searches when conditions are met, scores the relevance and freshness of results, and integrates verified findings into its ongoing reasoning. Confidence scoring ensures the agent distinguishes between well-supported conclusions and speculative ones.

Use When

  • The agent analyzes data that may be affected by recent external changes (policy updates, market shifts)
  • Competitive intelligence is needed alongside internal data analysis
  • The agent encounters unexpected patterns that need external context to explain
  • Data freshness is critical and the provided data may be outdated
  • Industry benchmarks or best practices are needed to contextualize performance
  • The agent must fact-check its own assumptions against current sources

Read the full file on GitHub · 267 lines

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. 4d ago First seen · 267 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A d002693a0b0f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

proactive-intelligence is a skill published in the GitHub repository itallstartedwithaidea/agent-skills (36 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 2,784 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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