corpus

corpus is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from NathanAB/corpus-skill. It costs 37 tokens per session (239 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A system for maintaining a repository of source material that serves as evidence for answers and research. It also defines files that help navigate and verify that material.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or maintain a corpus, add source files, answer questions from existing evidence, or check its navigation and indexes.
Why use it?
It keeps source evidence visible and makes it easier to trace claims back to exact lines instead of relying on unsupported summaries.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to create or maintain a corpus, add source files, answer questions from existing evidence, or check its navigation and indexes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nathanab/corpus-skill/corpus
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.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for corpus

README.md
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Your own site
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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.

agentmods 80×15 button for corpus

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 239 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.
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 $0.00037 $0.00239
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00096
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00048
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00024

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 9eedd61d039a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

corpus 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 1mo 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.

skills/corpus/SKILL.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

Corpus

Maintain one visible evidence corpus in corpus/.

CONTENT.md is evidence. SOURCE.md, maps, and INDEX.md only route to exact evidence lines.

Setup

For corpus creation, initialization, setup, or bootstrap, read the setup workflow completely and follow it.

Ingest

For any source addition, import, ingestion, conversion, or indexing request, read the ingestion workflow completely and follow it.

Consult

For any question, research, comparison, or verification request against an existing corpus, read the consultation workflow completely and follow it.

Lint

For any lint, audit, or navigation-health request, read the lint workflow completely and follow it.

Use the bundled templates as starting structures. Adapt their content to the user's answers and repository context. Leave no template placeholders in created files.

Files

What ships with it

10 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. 1mo ago First seen · 29 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 9eedd61d039a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

corpus is a skill published in the GitHub repository NathanAB/corpus-skill (13 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 239 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.