kitup

A software development kit for installing an application’s bundled Agent Skill on local coding-agent hosts. It handles host detection, validation, copying, updating, uninstalling, conflict safety, and installation reports.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it in a Go CLI that ships an Agent Skill, including commands for installation, dry runs, selecting user or project scope, choosing agents, status checks, and confirmed uninstallation.
Why use it?
It removes the need for each command-line application to implement its own skill installation logic. It also helps prevent conflicts and keeps repeated installations tied to the same application.

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/lathe-cli/kitup/kitup
Any agent
npx skills add lathe-cli/kitup --skill kitup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lathe-cli/kitup

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 451 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 $0.00047 $0.00451
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00226
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00090
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00045

Measured 2d ago against content hash 0e9ae7b6c91b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kitup 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.

skills/kitup/SKILL.md · 39 lines

What it actually says

Kitup

Use kitup as a producer-side SDK. The embedding CLI owns the bundled skill and command names. kitup owns host resolution, skill validation, copy/update/uninstall behavior, .kitup.json metadata, conflict safety, and structured reports.

Call the SDK with:

  • appId: stable id for the embedding CLI
  • skillBundle: bundled skill directory tree source containing SKILL.md
  • scope: user or project
  • agents: explicit host ids, auto, or all supported hosts

CLI surface

Recommended user-facing command:

mycli skill install
mycli skill install --dry-run

Standard install flags: --scope, repeatable --agent, --dry-run, --yes / -y, --force.

Do not add plan, update, or upgrade subcommands. --dry-run is the plan. Re-running install updates kitup-owned copies of the same appId. planBundledSkill and updateBundledSkill are that same install path, not extra commands.

Optional status and uninstall commands call statusBundledSkill and uninstallBundledSkill. Uninstall writes immediately; require --yes when stdin is not a TTY, and confirm in TTY mode. There is no uninstall force mode. Only the Go Cobra adapter ships these commands; other languages wire their own shell.

Wiring

For user-facing install, parse flags with parseInstallFlags and call runBundledSkillInstall with promptScope: true. Set stdinTTY from the process terminal. Map exits with installFlagError and installWorkflowError.

For scripts or tests that already know scope and agents, call installBundledSkill directly.

Treat conflicts as stop conditions unless the caller passed explicit --force.

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 · 39 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 0e9ae7b6c91b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

kitup is a skill published in the GitHub repository lathe-cli/kitup (6 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 451 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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