archivebox-web-archiving

archivebox-web-archiving is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Knuckles-Team/archivebox-api. It costs 127 tokens per session (1,117 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for saving web pages into ArchiveBox, a self-hosted system that keeps durable copies of websites. It can add URLs, refresh saved copies, choose capture methods, and schedule repeat captures.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to archive one URL or many, optionally crawl linked pages, select captures such as screenshots or PDFs, refresh existing snapshots, and schedule recurring archives.
Why use it?
It helps preserve web content that may later change, disappear, or become hard to access. It also avoids repeating the same capture work manually.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to archive one URL or many, optionally crawl linked pages, select captures such as screenshots or PDFs, refresh existing snapshots, and schedule recurring archives.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/knuckles-team/archivebox-api/archivebox-web-archiving
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 Knuckles-Team/archivebox-api --skill archivebox-web-archiving
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Knuckles-Team/archivebox-api

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 127 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,117 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.
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 $0.00127 $0.01117
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.00558
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00223
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00112

Measured 7d ago against content hash 3982117b358b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

archivebox-web-archiving 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 7d 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.

- Choose which extractors run (e.g. `wget,screenshot,pdf,singlefile,dom`).
archivebox_api/skills/archivebox-web-archiving/SKILL.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ArchiveBox Web Archiving

Domain-typed access to ArchiveBox's CLI actions (add / update / schedule) for capturing and re-capturing web pages into durable, self-hosted snapshots.

When to use

  • Archive one URL or a batch of URLs (optionally with tags + a crawl depth).
  • Choose which extractors run (e.g. wget,screenshot,pdf,singlefile,dom).
  • Re-archive / refresh existing snapshots (update, only_new, overwrite).
  • Set up a recurring archive job (schedule).

When NOT to use

  • Reading / searching / listing what is already archived → archivebox-snapshot-search.
  • Ingesting snapshots + results into the epistemic-graph KG → archivebox-kg-ingestion.
  • Deleting snapshots — use the cli_remove action directly (destructive; not part of this capture-oriented skill).

Prerequisites & environment

Connect via the mcp-client skill against the archivebox-api MCP server.

Variable Required Notes
ARCHIVEBOX_BASE_URL Instance URL (alias ARCHIVEBOX_URL)
ARCHIVEBOX_TOKEN one of Bearer API token (alias ARCHIVEBOX_API_KEY)
ARCHIVEBOX_USERNAME / ARCHIVEBOX_PASSWORD one of Basic-auth → token exchange
ARCHIVEBOX_SSL_VERIFY optional TLS verification toggle (default off)

MCP_TOOL_MODE (condensed|verbose|both) selects the condensed surface (used below) vs. the one-to-one verbose tools.

Tools & actions

Prefer the condensed tool; it takes action + a params_json JSON string whose keys are passed straight to the client method.

Condensed tool Actions
archivebox_cli cli_add, cli_update, cli_schedule

Key parameters

  • urlslist of strings to archive (cli_add).
  • tag — comma-separated tags to apply.
  • depth — crawl depth (0 = just the URL, 1 = also linked pages).
  • extractors — comma-separated extractor list; empty = the instance default set.
  • update / update_all / overwrite — re-archive controls.
  • only_new, after, before, status, filter_patterns — scope for cli_update.

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 lines

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. 7d ago First seen · 97 lines · 127 tokens per session scan A 3982117b358b

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archivebox-web-archiving is a skill published in the GitHub repository Knuckles-Team/archivebox-api (1 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 127 tokens to every session and 1,117 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.

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