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 skills add Lingtai-AI/lingtai --skill avatarsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Lingtai-AI/lingtaiWrote 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/lingtai-ai/lingtai/avatars)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/lingtai-ai/lingtai/avatars"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lingtai-ai/lingtai/avatars/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/lingtai-ai/lingtai/avatars"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lingtai-ai/lingtai/avatars.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" 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 5.1 | $0.00030 | $0.00657 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00012 | $0.00263 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00131 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00066 |
Grade A, and why
bot-guide-avatars 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 10d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Independent avatars are not headless project bots
Nested lingtai-bot-guide reference. A bot can be a durable specialist, but body selection and channel selection are different decisions.
- Project bot: its own project/orchestrator and maintenance owner. Use initiation and the supported project creation route.
- Avatar: independent persistent agent process inside the network, with its
own working directory/history/memory and parent relationship. Discover
avatar-manualfor the currently mounted tool and its exact spawn contract; discoversystem-manual→reference/substrate-manual/SKILL.md§1 for body selection. Do not create an avatar for a tiny command or one-off test. - Daemon: bounded ephemeral work where only conclusion/artifact is needed.
Discover
daemon-manualfor completion/checkpoint and async ownership. A daemon is not a replacement for an always-on bot with persistent relationships.
Current route and candidate boundary
Read the available avatar-manual and live schema before creating an avatar.
The currently documented tool route is avatar spawn; this guide does not copy
its flags or inheritance algorithm. The cross-repository shell avatar new
replacement is a candidate, NOT MERGED / NOT LIVE for this guide's baseline.
No invocation is prescribed here. If a future installed catalog advertises the
replacement, read that version's manual and help first; do not infer support
from a proposal, source branch or a command remembered from another runtime.
Before and after authorized creation
Give a specific mission, allowed resources, parent contact, maintenance owner, acceptance evidence and limits. Preview using the owner's supported mechanism where available; creation consumes resources and is not an inspection call. Keep the receipt/address/PID and verify the intended independent process.
Do not assume active-preset, admin, addon/channel secrets, comment or all other parent fields are inherited. In particular avatars do not automatically inherit external addons: an independent channel needs separately authorized setup through channels. Sharing one Telegram long-poll token between independent listeners can contend; assign ownership rather than starting copies.
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 55 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A ad9a3046948d
bot-guide-avatars is a skill published in the GitHub repository Lingtai-AI/lingtai (507 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 657 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-14.
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