NanoClaw is an AI assistant that runs agents inside separate Linux containers, isolating their files and execution environments. People use it to connect agents to messaging services and run assistants with memory and scheduled jobs. The catalogue contains skills and instructions for extending or operating NanoClaw.
Getting it into your agent
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nanocoai/nanoclawnpx agentmods add skills/nanocoai/nanoclaw/add-dialWrote 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/nanocoai/nanoclaw/add-dial)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nanocoai/nanoclaw/add-dial"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nanocoai/nanoclaw/add-dial/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nanocoai/nanoclaw/add-dial"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nanocoai/nanoclaw/add-dial.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 7 findings, up to high
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- high Supply Chain · line 117 Remote code is downloaded and executed. This bypasses code review and could introduce malicious code.Fix: Avoid downloading and executing remote scripts. Use trusted packages from PyPI/npm. If remote fetch is required, verify checksums and use HTTPS.
- high Tool Misuse · line 117 Tool calls are chained to bypass individual safety checks or escalate capabilities beyond what any single tool call would allow.Fix: Limit tool chaining depth and validate the output of each tool before passing it to the next. Require explicit user approval for multi-step chains.
- medium Excessive Agency · line 186 Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
- medium Privilege Escalation · line 256 Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
- medium Agent Snooping · line 422 Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
- medium Excessive Agency · line 436 Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
- medium Rogue Agent · line 447 Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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 | $0.00036 | $0.05586 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00018 | $0.02793 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.01117 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00559 |
Grade D, and why
add-dial scanned grade D with 3 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation
A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.
f="${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}/dial/auth.v1.json"; i=$(DIAL_USER_AGENT={{dial_ua}} dial number list --json | jq -er --arg n '{{platform_id}}' '.numbers[]|select(.number==$n)|.id') && jq --arg n '{{platform_id}}' Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain
curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.
command -v dial || curl -fsSL https://getdial.ai/install | bash Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
`curl -fsSL https://getdial.ai/skills.md`): How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 454 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Add Dial Channel
Adds Dial — a real phone number for SMS and AI voice
calls. Native adapter (no Chat SDK bridge): both directions go through the
dial CLI — outbound via dial message, inbound via its command-target daemon. NanoClaw doesn't ship
channels in trunk — this skill copies the Dial adapter, its pairing helper, and
their tests in from the channels branch. The pair-dial setup step is
maintained in trunk, so it is not copied here.
The mechanical steps under Apply carry nc: directive fences: an agent
reads the prose and applies them, and a parser can apply them deterministically
from the same document. Every directive is idempotent, so the whole skill is
safe to re-run; anything a parser can't apply falls back to the prose beside it.
Apply
1. Copy the adapter, pairing helper, and tests
Fetch the channels branch and copy the Dial adapter, its pairing store and
user-agent helper (each with its test), and the registration test into place
(overwrite — the branch is canonical):
src/channels/dial.ts
src/channels/dial-pairing.ts
src/channels/dial-pairing.test.ts
src/channels/dial-user-agent.ts
src/channels/dial-user-agent.test.ts
src/channels/dial-registration.test.ts
src/channels/dial-grant.test.ts
src/channels/dial-status.test.ts
The dial-cli container skill is deliberately not copied here.
container/skills/ is mounted read-only into every agent container
(src/container-runner.ts), and a group with skills:'all' picks up whatever
it finds there — so shipping the skill with the adapter would hand it to agents
on installs that never configured Dial. It is installed only by
/add-dial-tool, offered under Add phone superpowers below, which is the
skill that actually provisions the CLI the skill documents.
dial.ts imports dial-user-agent.js at module scope, so omitting that helper
breaks the build and every test that loads the channel barrel.
2. Register the adapter
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 · 454 lines · 36 tokens per session scan D 137ac8a644cb
add-dial is a skill published in the GitHub repository nanocoai/nanoclaw (30,727 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 5,586 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 3 findings (asks for root, downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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Use when running pynchy locally — running the app, tests, linting, formatting, prek hooks, or rebuilding the agent container. Also use when determining whether you're on the live Pynchy host or a local machine, and for debugging agent behavior-- session transcript branching, inspecting message history and agent traces…
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Use when creating, scaffolding, or updating a pynchy plugin, including channels, MCP servers, skills, agent cores, workspace specs, and container runtime plugins. Also use when users ask how to register plugins via config.toml, add entry points, or validate plugin hook wiring.
x-integration
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slack-token-extractor
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