arguments-test

A test skill for checking that command arguments are inserted correctly into a skill's instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test $ARGUMENTS substitution, including multiple occurrences and literal escaped placeholders.
Why use it?
It exposes whether argument placeholders, repeated values and escaped placeholders behave as intended.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/maxvaega/skillkit/arguments-test-skill
Any agent
npx skills add maxvaega/skillkit --skill arguments-test-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/maxvaega/skillkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 8 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 64 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 $0.00008 $0.00064
Opus 5 $0.00004 $0.00032
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00013
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00006

Measured 2d ago against content hash 49a1aa6ed402, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

arguments-test 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 2d 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.

tests/fixtures/skills/arguments-test-skill/SKILL.md · 15 lines

What it actually says

Arguments Test Skill

This skill is used for testing $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Multiple placeholders: $ARGUMENTS and $ARGUMENTS again.

Escaped placeholder: $$ARGUMENTS should remain literal.

No arguments at the end.

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. 2d ago First seen · 15 lines · 8 tokens per session scan A 49a1aa6ed402

Subscribe to this mod's changes

arguments-test is a skill published in the GitHub repository maxvaega/skillkit (147 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 8 tokens to every session and 64 once invoked, about $0.0000 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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