librarian

librarian is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mitsuhiko/agent-stuff. It costs 57 tokens per session (499 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A repository caching workflow for remote Git repositories, which store and track source code. It keeps reusable local checkouts under a cache directory and refreshes them when needed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a task refers to a GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket repository, so the repository can be cloned, reused, fetched, and fast-forwarded safely when possible.
Why use it?
It avoids repeatedly cloning the same repository while keeping the local reference reasonably up to date.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when a task refers to a GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket repository, so the repository can be cloned, reused, fetched, and fast-forwarded safely when possible.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mitsuhiko/agent-stuff/librarian
About the project

Agent Stuff is a personal package of reusable skills, extensions, prompt commands, themes, and utilities for the Pi Coding Agent. Its author uses these tools across projects, and the catalogue entries are components from this package that support that workflow.

mitsuhiko/agent-stuff · 3,192 stars · on GitHub

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 mitsuhiko/agent-stuff --skill librarian
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mitsuhiko/agent-stuff

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 499 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00057 $0.00499
Opus 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00200
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00100
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00050

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 40b60c3ba691, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

librarian 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (checkout.sh), 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/librarian/SKILL.md · 66 lines

What it actually says

Use this skill when the user points you to a remote git repository (GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket URLs, git@..., or owner/repo shorthand).

The goal is to keep a reusable local checkout that is:

  • stable (predictable path)
  • up to date (periodic fetch + fast-forward when safe)
  • efficient (partial clone with --filter=blob:none, no repeated full clones)

Cache location

Repositories are stored at:

~/.cache/checkouts/<host>/<org>/<repo>

Example:

github.com/mitsuhiko/minijinja → ~/.cache/checkouts/github.com/mitsuhiko/minijinja

Command

bash checkout.sh <repo> --path-only

Examples:

bash checkout.sh mitsuhiko/minijinja --path-only
bash checkout.sh github.com/mitsuhiko/minijinja --path-only
bash checkout.sh https://github.com/mitsuhiko/minijinja --path-only

The script will:

  1. Parse the repo reference into host/org/repo.
  2. Clone if missing.
  3. Reuse existing checkout if present.
  4. Fetch from origin when stale (default interval: 300s).
  5. Attempt a fast-forward merge if the checkout is clean and has an upstream.

Update strategy

  • Default behavior is throttled refresh (every 5 minutes) to avoid unnecessary network calls.
  • Force immediate refresh with:
bash checkout.sh <repo> --force-update --path-only
  1. Resolve repository path via checkout.sh --path-only.
  2. Use that path for searching, reading, and analysis.
  3. On later references to the same repo, call checkout.sh again; it will find and update the cached checkout.

If edits are needed

Prefer not to edit directly in the shared cache. Create a separate worktree or copy from the cached checkout for task-specific modifications.

Notes

  • owner/repo defaults to github.com.
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. 1mo ago First seen · 66 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 40b60c3ba691

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librarian is a skill published in the GitHub repository mitsuhiko/agent-stuff (3,192 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 499 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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