archive-experiments

archive-experiments is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from marin-community/marin. It costs 21 tokens per session (797 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A procedure for retiring named legacy experiment files while keeping a dated copy in Git and leaving references on their GitHub issues.

In plain words
What is it for?
Tagging an archived code snapshot and posting canonical links or notes to the related GitHub issues.
Why use it?
It removes old experiments from active work without losing their history or making it hard to find the final archived version.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

About the project

Marin is an open-source research program, software platform, and community for developing foundation models such as large language models. Researchers use it for data preparation, tokenization, pretraining, posttraining, evaluation, and related experiments, including work on audio-text, DNA, and protein models. The catalogue entries are add-ons that support workflows around Marin.

marin-community/marin · 3,440 stars · on GitHub · marin.community

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/marin-community/marin/archive-experiments
Any agent
npx skills add marin-community/marin --skill archive-experiments
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/marin-community/marin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 797 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00021 $0.00797
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00398
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00159
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00080

Measured 6d ago against content hash f33d10b328eb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

archive-experiments 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 6d 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.

.agents/skills/archive-experiments/SKILL.md · 64 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 64 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: Archive Legacy Experiments

Overview

Retire old experiment scripts without losing their history: put the code behind a dated archive tag and leave a canonical comment on the originating GitHub issues so future readers can find the last snapshot.

Prerequisites

  • Local checkout of marin with push access to origin.
  • gh CLI installed and authenticated for marin-community/marin.
  • List of experiment issues and their corresponding filenames under experiments/.
  • The PR number for the cleanup you are referencing; if the directing human has not given one, ask them before posting anything.

Guidelines for Humans

1. Snapshot the experiments behind an archive tag

  1. Identify the commit that should house the archived experiments (usually main after the cleanup). Record it with git rev-parse HEAD.
  2. Pick a date-based tag name in the form archive/YYYYMMDD.
  3. Create and push the tag:
    TAG=archive/20251114
    git tag "${TAG}" <commit-sha>
    git push origin "${TAG}"
    
  4. If an older tag (e.g., exp_cleaning/YYYYMMDD) described the same snapshot, delete it locally and remotely so only the archive/ tag remains.

2. Post the canonical archive comment on each issue

  1. Confirm the cleanup PR number (PR_NUM); if nobody has provided one yet, ping the human operator for it before continuing.
  2. For every experiment issue, build the file URL: https://github.com/marin-community/marin/tree/${TAG}/experiments/<filename>.
  3. Use the standardized note below, swapping in the filename-specific URL and PR reference:
    This experiment has been archived to reduce clutter and preserve velocity (see PR #<PR_NUM>). It is last available in the `archive/YYYYMMDD` tag at <URL>. Please open an issue if you need help unarchiving it.
    
  4. Post the comment with gh issue comment:
    ISSUE=102
    FILE=exp102_classifier_ablations.py
    PR_NUM=1999
    URL="https://github.com/marin-community/marin/tree/${TAG}/experiments/${FILE}"
    gh issue comment "${ISSUE}" \
      --body "This experiment has been archived to reduce clutter and preserve velocity (see PR #${PR_NUM}). It is last available in the \`${TAG}\` tag at ${URL}. Please open an issue if you need help unarchiving it."
    
  5. Confirm the comment renders correctly (PR reference should auto-link and the URL should jump straight to the file in the archive tag).

Read the full file on GitHub · 64 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. 6d ago First seen · 64 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A f33d10b328eb

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archive-experiments is a skill published in the GitHub repository marin-community/marin (3,440 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 797 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.