auto

An autonomous task-running mode with reversible implementation choices and a reviewable handoff.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to implement an authorized change, create the required artifacts, preserve existing behavior where needed, and commit the completed in-scope work.
Why use it?
It lets a defined task continue through ordinary development work without repeated approval while keeping scope and risky actions under control.

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/kodingdev/meridian/auto
Any agent
npx skills add KodingDev/meridian --skill auto
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KodingDev/meridian

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 314 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00017 $0.00314
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00157
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00063
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00031

Measured yesterday against content hash 0c95eef8d395, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

auto 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 yesterday.

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.

skills/auto/SKILL.md · 36 lines

What it actually says

Auto

/auto is an explicit user-owned modifier. Everything after the invocation is the task. If no task is supplied, ask what to run and stop.

Authority

Invocation authorizes Meridian to:

  • choose reasonable reversible implementation details;
  • continue through ordinary friction without waiting for approval;
  • use appropriate internal disciplines and delegation;
  • produce the artifacts required by the task; and
  • commit completed in-scope code before handback.

It does not authorize scope expansion, push, deploy, force-push, destructive data operations, credential or billing changes, shared-branch rewriting, or merge.

Operating discipline

  • Ask only when the missing answer is human-only, materially changes scope or architecture, or gates an irreversible action.
  • Finish the requested outcome rather than starting adjacent work.
  • Keep legacy behavior intact when a migration cannot be completed safely.
  • Treat new user messages as current authority: absorb constraints, stop withdrawn scope, and end autonomous operation when the user takes back control.
  • Commit only files belonging to the task, per meridian:commit.
  • Stop when the professional standard's completion condition is met, not when elapsed time feels sufficient and not after inventing extra work.

Handback

Report what shipped, verification evidence, commits created, defaults chosen, unresolved decisions, and genuine blockers. Keep the handback concise and reviewable.

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. yesterday First seen · 36 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 0c95eef8d395

Subscribe to this mod's changes

auto is a skill published in the GitHub repository KodingDev/meridian (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 314 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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