meerkat: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/meerkat-cli-reference/SKILL.md

meerkat-cli-reference is a skill for Claude Code from lukacf/meerkat. It costs 37 tokens per session (11,131 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An exact reference for Meerkat's rkat command-line interface, including command names, flags, aliases, and valid values.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check the correct syntax for rkat commands, distinguish similar commands, and confirm unsupported CLI options.
Why use it?
It prevents help answers and scripts from using commands or options that do not exist, such as rkat sessions or rkat resume.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is lukacf/meerkat's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on meerkat itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything meerkat configures →

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is rkat mob validate ./dist/release-triage.mobpack --trust-policy permissive.

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to lukacf/meerkat. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lukacf/meerkat/main/.claude/skills/meerkat-cli-reference/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lukacf/meerkat

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 11,131 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 136
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00037 $0.11131
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.04452
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.02226
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.01113

Measured 3d ago against content hash 1b5ed8277b31, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

meerkat-cli-reference 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 3d 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.

.claude/skills/meerkat-cli-reference/SKILL.md · 759 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 759 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Meerkat CLI Reference

Use this skill as the exact authority for rkat shell commands. Command spelling, singular/plural forms, flags, and enum values matter.

Hard Negative Facts

  • There is no rkat sessions, rkat realms, or rkat skills; use singular rkat session, rkat realm, rkat skill.
  • There is no rkat resume, rkat continue, or rkat c; use rkat run --resume ....
  • There is no rkat rpc; use the rkat-rpc binary for JSON-RPC.
  • An unknown first word is not rejected as a command: it becomes the prompt, so rkat rpc runs rkat run rpc (extra unquoted words then fail to parse). Only the legacy names above are refused.
  • rkat-rpc --tcp is not a Meerkat signed peer/comms listener; use rkat run --comms-listen-tcp ... for remote peers and external mob members.
  • There is no root rkat live group. Use JSON-RPC live/* for ordinary sessions; mob members (local or placed) also have the rkat mob live group, WebSocket only.
  • There is no rkat image command.
  • There is no rkat schedule command; manage schedules through JSON-RPC schedule/*, REST /schedules, the SDK schedule helpers, or the agent meerkat_schedule_* tools inside rkat run.
  • There is no rkat mcp reload CLI command.
  • There is no rkat mcp logout; sign out with RPC auth/logout and an mcp target (Python auth_mcp_logout, TypeScript authMcpLogout). There is no CLI command to set MCP service secrets (secret_env values); a Rust host uses meerkat::set_mcp_service_secret.
  • There is no --tools all; valid values are safe, workspace, full, none.
  • OS sandboxing is off unless the [confinement] config section or the root --confinement <trusted-host|workspace> flag turns it on; without them rkat runs shell commands, command hooks and stdio MCP servers as trusted host processes. --tools none, the shell's restrict_to_project check and --isolated are not OS sandboxes. See references/security.md of the meerkat-platform skill.
  • rkat blob get has no -o or --out; use --output <FILE>.
  • rkat session show has no --json flag.
  • rkat models and rkat capabilities take no arguments (no --json/--format, no rkat models catalog) and already print pretty JSON.
  • rkat doctor (setup checks, no flags) and rkat storage doctor (storage diagnosis, --json/--root) are different commands.
  • rkat storage prune deletes only registered maintenance backup artifacts; realm deletion is rkat realm delete / rkat realm prune.
  • --isolated and --default-model cannot be combined with rkat storage; both are usage errors (exit 2). rkat mob host also rejects --isolated.
  • rkat run has no hook flags; per-session hook overrides (hooks_override) exist only on RPC, REST, MCP and the SDKs.
  • There is no manual compaction command on any surface.
  • rkat has no JSON-lines event output; --output json prints only the final result.
  • rkat session interrupt cannot stop a turn running in another process.

Read the full file on GitHub · 759 lines

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. 3d ago Changed · +20 lines 1b5ed8277b31
  2. 10d ago Changed · +11 lines a99421a7ec6d
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  7. 1mo ago First seen · 527 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 5b67c6da592a

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meerkat-cli-reference is a skill published in the GitHub repository lukacf/meerkat (23 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 11,131 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 2026-08-30.

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