add-signal

add-signal is a skill for Claude Code from nanocoai/nanoclaw. It costs 22 tokens per session (3,530 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Signal connection that uses signal-cli, a program for communicating with Signal, and links as a secondary device to an existing phone account. It uses the phone's number rather than creating a separate bot number.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to connect Signal conversations to the agent. It installs signal-cli when needed, adds the native adapter, and supports linking through a QR code.
Why use it?
It lets the agent communicate through Signal without a dedicated bot API or new phone number. Messages are sent and received as the account on the phone that approves the device link.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is command -v signal-cli >/dev/null 2>&1 || bash setup/install-signal-cli.sh.

Good fit Use it to connect Signal conversations to the agent. It installs signal-cli when needed, adds the native adapter, and supports linking through a QR code.

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About the project

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.

nanocoai/nanoclaw · 30,736 stars · on GitHub · nanoclaw.dev

Install

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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nanocoai/nanoclaw
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nanocoai/nanoclaw/add-signal

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,530 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
  • Snyk warn 7 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 5 findings, up to medium

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 →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 249
    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.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 252
    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.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 252
    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.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 303
    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.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 303
    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.
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 $0.00022 $0.03530
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.01765
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00706
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00353

Measured 12d ago against content hash 706dbc380826, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

add-signal 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 12d 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/add-signal/SKILL.md · 337 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 337 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Add Signal Channel

Adds Signal support via a native adapter that speaks JSON-RPC to a signal-cli daemon — no Chat SDK bridge, only Node.js builtins. NanoClaw links to Signal as a secondary device on your existing phone: no new number, no bot API. Your assistant sends and receives as the number on the phone that scans the link.

Apply

1. Install signal-cli

NanoClaw talks to Signal through signal-cli, which has no bot API of its own. Install it if it isn't on PATH yet — Homebrew on macOS, the native release binary on Linux (neither needs Java). If it's already installed this is a no-op:

command -v signal-cli >/dev/null 2>&1 || bash setup/install-signal-cli.sh

2. Copy the adapter and its registration test

Fetch the channels branch and copy the Signal adapter and its registration test into src/channels/ (overwrite — the branch is canonical):

src/channels/signal.ts
src/channels/signal-registration.test.ts

3. Register the adapter

Append the self-registration import to the channel barrel (skipped if the line is already present). This one line is the skill's only reach-in into core:

import './signal.js';

4. Install the QR-rendering dependency

The device-link step renders the linking URL as a terminal QR via qrcode. Pinned to exact versions — the supply-chain policy rejects ranges and latest:

[email protected]
@types/[email protected]

The adapter itself consumes only Node.js builtins, so there is no adapter package to install — qrcode is purely for rendering the link during setup.

5. Build and validate

Build first: it guards the adapter's typed core-API consumption. Then run the one integration test.

pnpm run build
pnpm exec vitest run src/channels/signal-registration.test.ts

signal-registration.test.ts imports the real channel barrel and asserts the registry contains signal. It goes red if the import './signal.js'; line is deleted or drifts, or if the barrel fails to evaluate — so the channel genuinely would not register. The adapter has no npm dependency to guard; its typed core-API consumption is covered by the build. End-to-end delivery against a real Signal account is verified manually once the service runs.

Read the full file on GitHub · 337 lines

Files

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.

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. 12d ago First seen · 337 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 706dbc380826

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add-signal is a skill published in the GitHub repository nanocoai/nanoclaw (30,736 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 3,530 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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