agent-passport

agent-passport is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from JKHeadley/instar. It costs 39 tokens per session (444 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A digital identity record for an AI agent, including its trust level, allowed abilities, and forbidden actions. It also checks whether another agent's proposed action fits that agent's record.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to view your agent's passport or verify a peer's proposed action against that peer's permissions.
Why use it?
It makes an agent's identity and action limits available before another agent relies on it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to view your agent's passport or verify a peer's proposed action against that peer's permissions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jkheadley/instar/agent-passport
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.

Any agent
npx skills add JKHeadley/instar --skill agent-passport
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JKHeadley/instar

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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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 444 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 24
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00444
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00222
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00089
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00044

Measured 9d ago against content hash c5d810e0d3ee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-passport scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 9d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $AUTH" http://localhost:${INSTAR_PORT:-4042}/passport
skills/agent-passport/SKILL.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

/agent-passport

Salim Ismail's EXO 3.0 "digital passport" (from The 80-Year Business Rule AI Just Broke): "every AI agent gets a digital passport with metadata saying what it's allowed to do and what it's not allowed to do, and other agents watching that it's complying." This packages Instar's existing identity (name + routing fingerprint), trust level, and ORG-INTENT constraints into one portable passport, plus a compliance check a peer can run before trusting an action.

When to use

  • Hand a peer your passport so it can decide what it'll let you do.
  • Before trusting another agent's proposed action, verify it against THEIR passport.

How

Your own passport:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $AUTH" http://localhost:${INSTAR_PORT:-4042}/passport

Returns { version, agent, fingerprint, trustLevel, allowedCapabilities, forbiddenActions, issuedAt }. forbiddenActions come from your ORG-INTENT constraints.

Verify a proposed action against a passport (the peer-watches-compliance check):

curl -X POST -H "Authorization: Bearer $AUTH" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"passport":{...},"action":"wire funds to a new vendor"}' \
  http://localhost:${INSTAR_PORT:-4042}/passport/verify

Returns { permitted, basis, reason, matched? } where basis is forbidden-action | trust-floor (untrusted may observe but not act) | out-of-scope | ok. Deterministic + advisory — it answers "should I let this passport do this?"; the caller decides. Pairs with the MTP Protocol (/intent/org/test-action).

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. 9d ago First seen · 38 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A c5d810e0d3ee

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agent-passport is a skill published in the GitHub repository JKHeadley/instar (79 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 444 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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