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 ma-ziwei/fathom-mode-for-claude --skill fathomgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ma-ziwei/fathom-mode-for-claudeWrote 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/ma-ziwei/fathom-mode-for-claude/fathom)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ma-ziwei/fathom-mode-for-claude/fathom"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ma-ziwei/fathom-mode-for-claude/fathom/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/ma-ziwei/fathom-mode-for-claude/fathom"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ma-ziwei/fathom-mode-for-claude/fathom.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 | $0.00075 | $0.01933 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00037 | $0.00966 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00015 | $0.00387 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00193 |
Grade A, and why
fathom 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.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- fathom — 86% identical, 18 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 143 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Fathom Mode
A planning session. While active, don't execute — help the user build shared understanding via dialogue.
Resolving paths
Scripts are at <plugin-root>/scripts/. To derive this from SKILL.md's absolute path, strip the /skills/fathom/SKILL.md suffix and append /scripts/<script-name>.py. Use that absolute path with Bash. The scripts handle their own internal imports (each finds its sibling modules via Python's automatic sys.path).
Reference docs are at <SKILL.md directory>/references/, a sibling of this SKILL.md.
State lives at ~/.fathom-mode/active_session.json regardless of where the plugin is installed. A session started in one environment can be continued in another.
In examples below, <scripts> stands for the resolved absolute path (<plugin-root>/scripts/).
Note: in Claude Code CLI, a
UserPromptSubmithook also injects per-turn reminders with absolute script paths precomputed — when it fires, follow the hook's instructions and treat this SKILL.md body as a redundant reference. In environments that don't fire hooks (e.g., Cowork), this SKILL.md body is the canonical protocol.
Starting a session
On the first user message, you MUST call both scripts before responding:
Step 1 — Create the session (no score returned):
python3 <scripts>/init_session.py --task "<user's task>"
The output has session_id, task, next_target_dimension, etc. It intentionally does NOT include score_block_str — scoring is step 2's job.
Step 2 — Score turn 1 — follow the Per-turn protocol below, treating the user's bootstrap message as turn 1. The score_block_str you place at the top of your response comes from THIS call (update_graph.py), not step 1.
Do not skip step 2. Both scripts run for the first user message.
Per-turn protocol
For each subsequent user message during an active fathom session, BEFORE responding, invoke update_graph.py via Bash with the user's message + your extracted nodes:
What ships with it
3 files 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.
- 10d ago First seen · 143 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A cd4ff6ee60ba
fathom is a skill published in the GitHub repository ma-ziwei/fathom-mode-for-claude (13 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 1,933 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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