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 agentmods add skills/kdaip/echobot/echobot-developmentnpx skills add KdaiP/EchoBot --skill echobot-developmentgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KdaiP/EchoBotWhat 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 | $0.00114 | $0.00915 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00057 | $0.00458 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00023 | $0.00183 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00092 |
Grade A, and why
echobot-development 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 2d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
EchoBot Development
Work inside the current repository layout. Keep changes small, readable, and shared across CLI, gateway, and app entrypoints.
Start here
- Read
AGENTS.mdbefore non-trivial changes. - Keep Python 3.11+ code beginner-friendly. Prefer
pathlib. Keep one clear responsibility per function or class. - Do not block the event loop. Move blocking file, network, or CPU-heavy work to
asyncio.to_thread(...)or an executor. - Find the real entrypoint first:
echobot/cli/main.py,echobot/cli/chat.py,echobot/cli/gateway.py,echobot/cli/app.py, orechobot/app/create_app.py. - Reuse the shared runtime assembly in
echobot/runtime/bootstrap.py. If a feature should exist in chat, gateway, and app, wire it there once.
Choose the right layer
- Change
echobot/orchestration/decision.pyorechobot/orchestration/route_modes.pyfor route selection only. - Change
echobot/orchestration/roleplay.pyfor visible persona replies, delegated acknowledgements, and final presentation only. - Change
echobot/agent.py,echobot/runtime/session_runner.py, orechobot/runtime/turns.pyfor background agent behavior, tools, skills, memory, and scheduling. - Change
echobot/tools/orechobot/skill_support/instead of duplicating tool or skill wiring in one entrypoint. - Change
echobot/commands/andechobot/cli/session_commands.pyfor/route,/runtime,/role, and session command behavior. - Change
echobot/app/routers/,echobot/app/services/, andechobot/app/web/for HTTP or browser UI behavior.
Practical workflow
- Locate the entrypoint and the owning layer.
- Trace shared wiring through
build_runtime_context(...),ConversationCoordinator, andSessionAgentRunner. - Make the smallest coherent change.
- Add or update focused tests under
tests/. - Run the narrowest useful test group first, then expand if the change crosses subsystem boundaries.
Shared runtime rules
- Keep one source of truth for sessions, tools, skills, route modes, runtime settings, and scheduling.
- Extend
create_basic_tool_registry(...)or the tool-registry factory instead of hand-building tool lists for one surface. - Keep skill behavior inside
echobot/skill_support/and repository-local skills underskills/. - Preserve the separation between user-facing roleplay context and background agent execution context.
- Use
json.dumps(..., ensure_ascii=False)for JSON output. - When changing a project skill, validate it with
python -X utf8 echobot/skills/skill-creator/scripts/quick_validate.py skills/<skill-name>.
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.
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 60 lines · 114 tokens per session scan A 83fa492c01ef
echobot-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository KdaiP/EchoBot (628 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 114 tokens to every session and 915 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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