count

A sample skill for testing the Waza token-counting command. It describes how to scan Markdown files, estimate their token usage, and format the results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test token counts for a skill directory or selected folders and to verify table-style reporting of tokens, characters, and lines.
Why use it?
It provides a predictable example for checking that token-counting tests and output formats work correctly. It is not presented as a production coding workflow.

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/microsoft/waza/count
Any agent
npx skills add microsoft/waza --skill count
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/waza

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 424 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00000 $0.00424
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00212
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00085
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00042

Measured 2d ago against content hash 99c4fcdddedf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

count 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/sample.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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to all-pass — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

cmd/waza/tokens/testdata/count/SKILL.md · 84 lines

What it actually says

---
name: test-skill
description: |
  **TEST SKILL** - A sample skill for testing waza token counting.
  USE FOR: testing token count command, verifying markdown scanning.
  DO NOT USE FOR: actual agent operations.
---

# Test Skill

A demonstration skill used for testing the `waza tokens` command suite.

## Skill Activation Triggers

**Use this skill when:**
- Running unit tests for token counting
- Verifying file scanning behavior
- Testing output formats (table, JSON)

## Instructions

1. **Scan files** - Find all markdown files in the skill directory
2. **Count tokens** - Estimate token usage for each file
3. **Report results** - Output in requested format

## Output Format

Structure results as:

| File | Tokens | Characters | Lines |
|------|--------|------------|-------|
| SKILL.md | 150 | 600 | 40 |
| README.md | 50 | 200 | 15 |

## Examples

### Example 1: Count All Files

```bash
waza tokens count

Example 1b: Count a Specific Directory

waza tokens count ~/my-skill
waza tokens count references

Output:

File          Tokens   Chars  Lines
------------------------------------
README.md         50     200     15
SKILL.md         150     600     40

Example 2: JSON Format

waza tokens count --format json

Output:

{
  "totalTokens": 200,
  "totalFiles": 2,
  "files": {
    "README.md": {"tokens": 50},
    "SKILL.md": {"tokens": 150}
  }
}

Behavior Guidelines

  • Only count markdown files (.md, .mdx)
  • Skip binary and non-text files
  • Respect .gitignore patterns
  • Use streaming for large file sets
Files

What ships with it

4 files 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. 2d ago First seen · 84 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 99c4fcdddedf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

count is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/waza (1,288 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 424 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to all-pass, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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