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/lbx154/argus/argus-statusnpx skills add lbx154/Argus --skill argus-statusgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lbx154/ArgusWrote this? Show the measurements
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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/lbx154/argus/argus-status)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/lbx154/argus/argus-status"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lbx154/argus/argus-status.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00035 | $0.00249 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00017 | $0.00125 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00050 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00025 |
Grade A, and why
argus-status 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 4d 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.
What it actually says
Inspect And Control Argus
- Resolve the project ID from the user's explicit ID or call
argus_project_listfor the exact work directory. - Call
argus_status. Report daemon state, active role, completed and pending work, pending operator questions, and continuous objective separately. - Call
argus_artifactswhen the user asks for outputs. Report only existing allowlisted artifacts returned by Argus. - Call
argus_doctoronly when status exposes a runtime/backend fault or the user requests diagnostics. - Send ordinary steering or answers through
argus_message; Manager remains the operator front door. - Call
argus_stoponly on an explicit stop request. Keepforce=falseunless the user explicitly requests a force stop after understanding interruption risk.
Do not count provider, transport, interrupted, or resource failures as task failures. Do not translate training loss or activity into a successful result.
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.
- 4d ago First seen · 24 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A eb60801c372d
argus-status is a skill published in the GitHub repository lbx154/Argus (298 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 249 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 2026-08-30.
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