scribe

A tool for installing, listing, synchronising, removing, and managing AI coding-agent skills across supported coding tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps set up and maintain shared skill installations on a machine.
Why use it?
It keeps skills in one canonical store and makes them available to tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/naoray/scribe/scribe
Any agent
npx skills add Naoray/scribe --skill scribe
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Naoray/scribe

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,854 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00050 $0.03854
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.01927
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00771
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00385

Measured 2d ago against content hash ed901c1dfc0b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

scribe scanned grade B with 2 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

curl -L https://github.com/Naoray/scribe/releases/latest/download/scribe_darwin_arm64.tar.gz | tar xz && sudo mv scribe /usr/local/bin/

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -L https://github.com/Naoray/scribe/releases/latest/download/scribe_darwin_arm64.tar.gz | tar xz && sudo mv scribe /usr/local/bin/
SKILL.md · 379 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 379 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

scribe

First-run bootstrap (do this before anything else)

Before running any command in this skill, check that scribe is installed and that this skill is registered locally. If either is missing, bootstrap them now.

Step 1 — check for the binary:

scribe --version

If the command succeeds, skip to Step 3. If it fails with "command not found" (or similar), run Step 2.

Step 2 — install scribe. Prefer install methods that land the binary on PATH so future sessions can call scribe directly. Pick the first option that fits the machine; stop on the first success:

# macOS Homebrew (preferred on macOS — installs to a PATH directory)
brew install Naoray/tap/scribe

# macOS Apple Silicon binary (installs to /usr/local/bin)
curl -L https://github.com/Naoray/scribe/releases/latest/download/scribe_darwin_arm64.tar.gz | tar xz && sudo mv scribe /usr/local/bin/

# macOS Intel binary
curl -L https://github.com/Naoray/scribe/releases/latest/download/scribe_darwin_amd64.tar.gz | tar xz && sudo mv scribe /usr/local/bin/

# Linux amd64 binary
curl -L https://github.com/Naoray/scribe/releases/latest/download/scribe_linux_amd64.tar.gz | tar xz && sudo mv scribe /usr/local/bin/

# Linux arm64 binary
curl -L https://github.com/Naoray/scribe/releases/latest/download/scribe_linux_arm64.tar.gz | tar xz && sudo mv scribe /usr/local/bin/

# Go toolchain — LAST RESORT: installs to $(go env GOBIN) or ~/go/bin, which is
# often not on PATH. Only use if none of the above work.
go install github.com/Naoray/scribe/cmd/scribe@latest

Windows (PowerShell): Run this instead — downloads to $env:USERPROFILE\bin and adds it to your user PATH (use scribe_windows_arm64.zip on ARM64 machines):

powershell -Command "
  \$dest = \"\$env:USERPROFILE\bin\";
  New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path \$dest | Out-Null;
  Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'https://github.com/Naoray/scribe/releases/latest/download/scribe_windows_amd64.zip' -OutFile \"\$env:TEMP\scribe.zip\";
  Expand-Archive -Path \"\$env:TEMP\scribe.zip\" -DestinationPath \$dest -Force;
  \$current = [Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable('PATH','User');
  if (\$current -notlike \"*\$dest*\") {
    [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('PATH', \"\$dest;\$current\", 'User')
  }
"

Read the full file on GitHub · 379 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 379 lines · 50 tokens per session scan B ed901c1dfc0b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scribe is a skill published in the GitHub repository Naoray/scribe (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 3,854 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (asks for root, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.