A structured workflow for running local commands, inspecting their output, following processes, and capturing results with their source. It can also turn repeated shell work into a reusable TypeScript flow.

Use it to run and observe commands, follow logs, manage background jobs, inspect terminal output, and combine shell results with other tools.

It prevents important command output and process details from being lost or detached from the work that produced them.

rote-shell — Skill by modiqo

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/modiqo/skillspec/rote-shell

Any agent

npx skills add modiqo/skillspec --skill rote-shell

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/modiqo/skillspec

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 142 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,003 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00142	$0.02003
Opus 5	$0.00071	$0.01001
Sonnet 5	$0.00028	$0.00401
Haiku 4.5	$0.00014	$0.00200

Measured 2d ago against content hash 347089b25bdc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rote-shell 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.

.claude/skills/rote-shell/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

rote shell

Structured version of the rote-shell skill for durable CLI, shell, process, stream, PTY, dependency, and shell-flow crystallization work.

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 colocated skill.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: raw_repo_search, direct_file_read, direct_cli_without_rote_exec, direct_shell_command_without_rote_exec, direct_harness_cli_call_without_rote_exec, browser_browser_skill, node_repl.

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

Load ./skill.spec.yml from this skill folder before taking task actions.
When the skillspec CLI is available and the spec shape is unfamiliar, run skillspec sensemake ./skill.spec.yml --view index to 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-spec before passing --input.
Preserve the emitted trace run_dir.
Read the decision JSON before using tools. Do not act from route labels alone.
Pull active details with skillspec query ./skill.spec.yml <handle> --view summary and relationship edges with skillspec refs ./skill.spec.yml <handle> --view summary. Prefer precise handles such as rule:<id>, rule:<id>.forbid, command:<id>.requires, and state:<id>.next over reading the whole spec.
Materialize the active contract described below, then execute only actions that satisfy it.
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.yml directly and apply the same contract manually. Do not expand this loader into a second source of truth.

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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.

2d ago First seen · 95 lines · 142 tokens per session scan A 347089b25bdc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

rote-shell is a skill published in the GitHub repository modiqo/skillspec (737 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 142 tokens to every session and 2,003 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 2026-08-30.

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