builtin-utilities-workflow

builtin-utilities-workflow is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from lukacf/meerkat. It costs 20 tokens per session (384 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to using built-in tools for local tasks such as editing files, checking images, handling dates, and loading project files. It also explains when to search for tools that are not currently visible.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when editing source files, checking visual results, working with dates or project blobs, generating images, or finding deferred tools.
Why use it?
It helps keep tool use scoped to the current task and prevents local utilities from being mistaken for a lasting planning system.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when editing source files, checking visual results, working with dates or project blobs, generating images, or finding deferred tools.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lukacf/meerkat/builtin-utilities-workflow
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 lukacf/meerkat --skill builtin-utilities-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lukacf/meerkat

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 384 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00020 $0.00384
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00192
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00077
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00038

Measured 9d ago against content hash 0c65f150d843, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

builtin-utilities-workflow 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 9d 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.

meerkat-tools/skills/builtin-utilities-workflow/SKILL.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

Builtin Utilities Workflow

Use builtin utility tools for local, concrete actions that support the current turn. They are not a durable planning system by themselves.

Operating Rules

  • Use datetime when relative dates, local time, deadlines, or schedule inputs need grounding.
  • Use apply_patch for intentional source edits and keep patches scoped.
  • Use view_image when the user references a local image or when visual verification matters.
  • Use generate_image only when the runtime exposes image generation and the task genuinely asks for new or edited imagery.
  • Use blob_load_file to import a project file into the realm blob store, blob_save_file to write a blob into the project, and blob_inspect to read blob metadata/content. Do not use blob tools as a replacement for normal text inspection.
  • Use tool_catalog_search and tool_catalog_load when deferred tool entries exist and the current visible tool list is not enough. Search reads the catalog; load requests visibility at the next admitted tool boundary and can be refused by session filters or missing scope authority.

Boundaries

  • Builtin task tools are private/local task tracking; WorkGraph is the shared durable commitment graph.
  • Shell has separate operational safety guidance in shell-patterns.
  • Some utility tools are model, store, profile, or runtime conditional. If a tool is not visible, do not assume the underlying capability exists.
  • Read-only tool policy admits only tools explicitly classified read-only. Shell, patching, image generation, blob writes, and undeclared tools remain unavailable under that policy.
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. 9d ago First seen · 40 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 0c65f150d843

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builtin-utilities-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository lukacf/meerkat (20 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 384 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 2026-08-30.

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