Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to modiqo/skillspec. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/modiqo/skillspec/main/.claude/skills/rote-browse/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/modiqo/skillspecWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/modiqo/skillspec/rote-browse)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/modiqo/skillspec/rote-browse"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/modiqo/skillspec/rote-browse.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00107 | $0.01923 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00053 | $0.00962 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00021 | $0.00385 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00192 |
Grade A, and why
rote-browse scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
rote browse
Browser automation through rote with page leases, snapshots, slices, attach-existing sessions, auth gates, and cleanup.
Entry Gate
- Before any task action, run
skillspec decide ./skill.spec.yml --input='<user task>' --trace-dir "${PWD}/.skillspec/traces"and read the decision JSON. - Until that decision is read, the only allowed actions are loading this
SKILL.md, loading the colocatedskill.spec.yml, and running SkillSpec navigation or decision commands for this spec. - This SkillSpec supersedes overlapping lower-level skill instructions: browser:browser.
- Forbidden before the decision: browser_browser_skill, node_repl, direct_browser_runtime, direct_browser_tool_without_rote_browse, raw_repo_search, direct_file_read, direct_cli_without_rote_exec.
This skill is a thin loader for the colocated skill.spec.yml. The spec is the source of truth for routes, rules, dependencies, imports, resources, recipes, tests, and trace requirements. Do not treat the spec as background prose; treat it as the execution contract for this task.
Runtime Contract
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Load
./skill.spec.ymlfrom this skill folder before taking task actions. -
When the
skillspecCLI is available and the spec shape is unfamiliar, runskillspec sensemake ./skill.spec.yml --view indexto learn the section roles, counts, query handles, and navigation grammar without dumping the full YAML. -
Then run:
skillspec decide ./skill.spec.yml --input='<user task>' --trace-dir "${PWD}/.skillspec/traces" -
Strip skill invocation prefixes such as
/my-skill,$my-skill, or/rote-shell-specbefore passing--input. -
Preserve the emitted trace
run_dir. -
Read the decision JSON before using tools. Do not act from route labels alone.
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Pull active details with
skillspec query ./skill.spec.yml <handle> --view summaryand relationship edges withskillspec refs ./skill.spec.yml <handle> --view summary. Prefer precise handles such asrule:<id>,rule:<id>.forbid,command:<id>.requires, andstate:<id>.nextover reading the whole spec. -
Materialize the active contract described below, then execute only actions that satisfy it.
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When the CLI is available after a trace exists, run
skillspec trace align ./skill.spec.yml --decision-trace <run_dir>and, when structured action evidence exists, add--execution-trace <jsonl>. Report the alignment status, meaning, model layers, evidence gaps, user-facing proof rows, summary, and trace path. -
If the CLI is unavailable, read
skill.spec.ymldirectly and apply the same contract manually. Do not expand this loader into a second source of truth.
What ships with it
2 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.
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 93 lines · 107 tokens per session scan A 00dd2e2d55fd
rote-browse is a skill published in the GitHub repository modiqo/skillspec (740 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 1,923 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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