file-write

A file-writing tool that saves provided content to an approved location.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, replace, or update project files when an agent needs to store generated content.
Why use it?
It removes the need to create or update files manually while keeping writes limited to allowed paths.

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/keyargo/custodian-kernel/file-write
Any agent
npx skills add KeyArgo/custodian-kernel --skill file-write
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KeyArgo/custodian-kernel

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 12 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 305 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 86% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00012 $0.00305
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00152
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00061
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00030

Measured 2d ago against content hash a061e7da74bc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

file-write 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/execute.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to discord-webhook — 16 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

custodian/bundled_skills/files/file-write/SKILL.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

File Write

Write content to a file at an allowed path

Authority band

This tool runs under L1 authority in the Custodian kernel. Trivial autonomous spend or free side-effect — no human approval required.

Inputs

Parameter Type Required Description
(see execute.py for full schema)

Configuration

No additional configuration required — uses credentials already wired to Custodian.

Usage

custodian tools run file-write --param value

Custodian governance

Every call to this tool passes through the Custodian kernel authority check before executing. The kernel verifies the current authority band, checks spending caps where applicable, logs the action to the OCSF audit trail, and escalates to a human operator if the action exceeds the declared band.

Adding this tool to any Hermes agent session requires no code changes — declare custodian-band: L1 in the SKILL.md frontmatter and the kernel wraps it automatically.

Files

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.

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. 2d ago First seen · 51 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A a061e7da74bc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

file-write is a skill published in the GitHub repository KeyArgo/custodian-kernel (118 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 305 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to discord-webhook, differing in 16 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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