filesystem

filesystem is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Mathews-Tom/armory. It costs 63 tokens per session (2,254 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of file and folder operation instructions for Claude Code, covering reading, writing, editing, searching, listing, renaming, and inspecting files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working with local files: read or edit content, find matching files, list directories, search text, rename items, or check file details.
Why use it?
It gives the coding agent a consistent way to handle common filesystem tasks without relying on a separate filesystem service.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the armory plugin — 57 skills, 1 agent shipped together

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/mathews-tom/armory/filesystem
Any agent
npx skills add Mathews-Tom/armory --skill filesystem
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mathews-Tom/armory

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install armory, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 57 skills, 1 agent.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for filesystem

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mathews-tom/armory/filesystem.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/mathews-tom/armory/filesystem)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mathews-tom/armory/filesystem"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mathews-tom/armory/filesystem.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,254 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 $0.00063 $0.02254
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01127
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00451
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00225

Measured 4d ago against content hash c8acb8bc31ae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

filesystem 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.

skills/filesystem/SKILL.md · 293 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 293 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Filesystem

All file and directory operations use Claude Code's built-in tools. No MCP server needed — native tools are faster, more capable, and cost zero context tokens when idle.

Quick Reference

Filesystem MCP Tool Replacement Notes
read_file(path) Read tool Supports line offset and limit
read_multiple_files(paths) Multiple parallel Read calls Faster than sequential MCP calls
write_file(path, content) Write tool Overwrites entire file
edit_file(path, edits) Edit tool Exact string replacement; surgical edits
list_directory(path) Glob or Bash ls Glob for patterns, ls for simple listing
directory_tree(path) Bash fd or Glob **/* fd is fastest; Glob for pattern filtering
search_files(pattern, path) Grep tool Full regex, file type filters, context lines
create_directory(path) Bash mkdir -p -p creates intermediate directories
move_file(src, dst) Bash mv Also handles renames
get_file_info(path) Bash stat or Bash ls -la Size, permissions, timestamps
list_allowed_directories N/A Claude Code operates in the working directory; no sandbox restrictions

Read the full file on GitHub · 293 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

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. 4d ago First seen · 293 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A c8acb8bc31ae

Subscribe to this mod's changes

filesystem is a skill published in the GitHub repository Mathews-Tom/armory (316 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 2,254 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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