port-a-model-to-the-zoo

port-a-model-to-the-zoo is a skill for Claude Code from john-rocky/coreai-model-zoo. It costs 115 tokens per session (1,330 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide for adding a new machine-learning model to Core AI's model collection, called the zoo. It covers exporting the model, choosing compression, selecting a device level, and checking the result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to convert models to .aimodel files, test ports, choose compression, and prepare a zoo pull request.
Why use it?
It helps prevent exported model packages from producing incorrect output and clarifies what a complete contribution needs.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the coreai-zoo-skills plugin — 2 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to convert models to .aimodel files, test ports, choose compression, and prepare a zoo pull request.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/john-rocky/coreai-model-zoo/port-a-model-to-the-zoo
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add john-rocky/coreai-model-zoo --skill port-a-model-to-the-zoo
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/john-rocky/coreai-model-zoo

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install coreai-zoo-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

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Per session 115 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,330 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 unknown 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 $0.00115 $0.01330
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.00665
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00266
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00133

Measured 12d ago against content hash 1e2d3dee17fa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

port-a-model-to-the-zoo 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 12d ago.

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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/skills/port-a-model-to-the-zoo/SKILL.md · 96 lines

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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. 12d ago First seen · 96 lines · 115 tokens per session scan A 1e2d3dee17fa

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port-a-model-to-the-zoo is a skill published in the GitHub repository john-rocky/coreai-model-zoo (415 stars, last pushed 2d ago), with no licence file. It adds 115 tokens to every session and 1,330 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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