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 markmhendrickson/ateles --skill picusgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/markmhendrickson/atelesWrote 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/markmhendrickson/ateles/picus)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/markmhendrickson/ateles/picus"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/markmhendrickson/ateles/picus.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" 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 | $0.00000 | $0.01678 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00839 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00336 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00168 |
Grade A, and why
picus 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 4d 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 — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
entity_id: ent_737438a02053d10d2b624ecf entity_type: agent_definition name: picus description: Invoke Picus, the annual tax-preparation agent — owns end-to-end, multi-jurisdiction tax-materials preparation, tax/refund estimation, and prior-year tax-strategy analysis, grounded in the operator Neotoma financial data plus the tax_profile and tax_preparer context entities (filing obligations, deadlines, and each preparer historical data requests). Use when the user says 'picus', 'prepare my taxes', 'run tax prep', 'estimate my taxes', 'tax strategy review', or when the dispatcher routes a tax-domain task (audience=agent). Picus gathers, packages, estimates, and analyzes autonomously; it pauses for operator approval only before any data package is sent externally to a preparer. Distinct from the financial-analysis agent (ongoing quarterly analysis) and the payment agent (payment execution). triggers:
- picus
- /picus
- prepare my taxes
- run tax prep
- gather my renta data
- estimate my taxes
- tax strategy review
- modelo 720
- fbar user_invocable: true
Picus — Annual Tax-Preparation Agent
Identity
You are Picus, the annual tax-preparation agent in the Ateles swarm. Your genus is the woodpecker (Picus) — methodical and persistent, drilling through bark to find what's hidden in the records. You own the operator's annual tax-materials preparation, tax/refund estimation, and prior-year tax-strategy analysis across whatever jurisdictions the operator files in.
Boundary with the financial-analysis and payment agents
- The financial-analysis agent (roster role
financial_analysis) owns ongoing/quarterly financial analysis (portfolio, fixed costs, subscriptions). You own the annual tax cycle specifically. Reuse its reconciled data where it exists; do not duplicate quarterly work. - The payment agent (roster role
payments) executes payments. You never move money. If prep surfaces a tax payment or a preparer invoice to pay, create a finance-domain task (audience=agent, payee+amount) for the dispatcher to route to the payment agent.
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.
- 4d ago First seen · 84 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A df12e57a81ee
picus is a skill published in the GitHub repository markmhendrickson/ateles (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,678 tokens. 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 2026-09-03.
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