anvil-bridge

anvil-bridge is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from matshoppenbrouwers/anvil-uplink-cli. It costs 144 tokens per session (1,956 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line tool for connecting to an Anvil app, a Python-based web application platform. It lets you inspect Anvil Data Tables and run server functions from a terminal.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read Data Table rows, inspect live app data, and call functions marked as available for server use. It is also intended for Anvil projects containing files such as anvil.yaml.
Why use it?
It avoids pasting Python into Anvil's server console and provides a repeatable way to work with a deployed app from the shell.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to read Data Table rows, inspect live app data, and call functions marked as available for server use. It is also intended for Anvil projects containing files such as anvil.yaml.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/matshoppenbrouwers/anvil-uplink-cli/anvil-bridge
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.

Any agent
npx skills add matshoppenbrouwers/anvil-uplink-cli --skill anvil-bridge
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/matshoppenbrouwers/anvil-uplink-cli

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 144 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,956 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.
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 $0.00144 $0.01956
Opus 5 $0.00072 $0.00978
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00391
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00196

Measured 11d ago against content hash c6a821a3d321, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

anvil-bridge 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (references/diagnostic-template.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/anvil-bridge/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

anvil-bridge

anvil-bridge is a CLI that opens an Anvil Server Uplink connection and exposes Data Table access and server-callable invocation from the shell. Use it instead of pasting Python into the Anvil Server Console.

Source: https://github.com/matshoppenbrouwers/anvil-uplink-cli

Critical rules (read first)

  1. Call by full path. The CLI lives in a dedicated venv that is NOT on PATH in fresh Bash subshells (Claude Code spawns one per tool call). Calling anvil-bridge bare will usually fail with "command not found".

    • Default install path: ~/.anvil-bridge/bin/anvil-bridge (absolute: /home/<user>/.anvil-bridge/bin/anvil-bridge on Linux/WSL).
    • Discover it: ls ~/.anvil-bridge/bin/anvil-bridge 2>/dev/null || which anvil-bridge.
  2. NEVER pass the Uplink key inline. Not as --key ..., not as ANVIL_BRIDGE_KEY=... anvil-bridge .... The key lands in the transcript and creates a prompt-injection exfiltration path. The CLI resolves the key from a .env ancestor via dotenv:ANVIL_UPLINK_KEY — it works silently, do not interfere with it. Also do NOT cat .env or read the key file.

  3. Run from inside a directory with a .env ancestor. The CLI walks up from CWD looking for .env. If the user's shell is in a directory with no .env above it, the key won't resolve — cd into the relevant repo first (or tell the user to).

  4. Prefer --json when the output is for parsing or passing to another tool. Pretty-printed tables are for humans and get garbled in agent transcripts.

First call in any session

Always verify the connection works before querying:

<BRIDGE> doctor

Expected output includes connected: yes and the configured profile. If it fails:

  • auth error → key isn't resolving; user needs a .env with ANVIL_UPLINK_KEY at or above CWD, or a configured profile. Do NOT try to fix by passing the key inline.
  • command not found → you used bare anvil-bridge instead of the full path.
  • connection refused / timeout → Anvil Server Uplink isn't enabled in the app's Editor; user has to fix in the Anvil UI.

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 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. 11d ago First seen · 125 lines · 144 tokens per session scan A c6a821a3d321

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anvil-bridge is a skill published in the GitHub repository matshoppenbrouwers/anvil-uplink-cli (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 144 tokens to every session and 1,956 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-31.

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