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.
npx skills add novoads/agent-skills --skill claymation-adgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/novoads/agent-skillsWrote 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/novoads/agent-skills/claymation-ad)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/novoads/agent-skills/claymation-ad"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/novoads/agent-skills/claymation-ad/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/novoads/agent-skills/claymation-ad"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/novoads/agent-skills/claymation-ad.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 5 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 Prompt Injection · line 19 Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
- high Prompt Injection · line 182 Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
- medium Agent Snooping · line 76 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 Agent Snooping · line 143 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 Agent Snooping · line 346 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.
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 | $0.00230 | $0.06513 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00115 | $0.03256 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00046 | $0.01303 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00023 | $0.00651 |
Grade A, and why
claymation-ad scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 10d 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.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
`./scripts/setup.sh`. That is the whole setup: `curl` and `jq`, one key, no How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 498 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Novoads Claymation Ad
One product in. A 40 to 70 second hand-sculpted clay ad out, cut from five to eight separately rendered beats, with narration, music and captions.
This is the sibling of pixar-ad and it runs the same pipeline: the
same gates, the same calls, the same still gate, the same local assembly. Read
that skill for the pipeline. This file owns two things it does not: the clay
look, and a narrative arc that is longer and quieter than the Pixar one.
The two are not interchangeable, and the difference is not decoration:
| Pixar storyboard | Claymation storyboard | |
|---|---|---|
| Hook | an anthropomorphized problem with eyes, speaking | a named person in their kitchen, and a narrator |
| Arc | 4 to 6 beats, a want and a turn | 5 to 8 beats, a small life story |
| Voice | in-scene SYNC plus narration | a storyteller carrying almost all of it |
| Surface | smooth, wet-eyed, subsurface scattering | matte clay, thumbprints, tool marks |
| Runs on | want, then relief | affection for a character |
Picking the wrong one is not a style mistake, it is a story mistake. If the product's pain is a moment, that is the Pixar skill. If it is a season of someone's life, it is this one.
Every clay ask lands here, including the short ones. There is no one-call clay tier. A five-beat short is the small end of this pipeline, not a different door: still per-beat renders, still ffmpeg, still an assembly.
Before anything: this runs on a Novoads account
- A Novoads account with credits. https://novoads.ai — the entry offer is a $1 trial, never call it free.
- An API key in
.envat the repo root, asNOVOADS_API_KEY=novo_…. Check it with./scripts/check-novoads-env.sh; if it is missing, run./scripts/setup.sh. That is the whole setup:curlandjq, one key, no connector to add and no session to restart. - ffmpeg on your machine. The assembly happens here, not on the server.
ffmpeg -versionbefore you start.
What ships with it
19 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.
- evals.md 4.8 KB
- references/formulas.md 21 KB
- references/NOTICE.md 2.0 KB
- routing-eval.jsonl 1.8 KB
- sections/00-frontmatter.md.in 1.2 KB
- sections/01-overview.md.in 1.6 KB
- sections/02-account.md.in 2.0 KB
- sections/03-run-cost.md.in 1.3 KB
- sections/04-hard-constraints.md.in 1.1 KB
- sections/05-two-ways-in.md.in 2.3 KB
- sections/06-clay-look.md.in 4.5 KB
- sections/07-arc.md.in 2.5 KB
- sections/08-cast-sheet.md.in 1.1 KB
- sections/09-gates.md.in 4.0 KB
- sections/10-output-format.md.in 1.1 KB
- sections/11-calls.md.in 2.7 KB
- sections/12-failure-modes.md.in 1.0 KB
- sections/13-hard-rules.md.in 876 B
- sections/manifest.json 3.8 KB
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 498 lines · 230 tokens per session scan A bfd13d8575f4
claymation-ad is a skill published in the GitHub repository novoads/agent-skills (14 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 230 tokens to every session and 6,513 once invoked, about $0.0011 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.
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