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 agentmods add skills/nrh387/cognition-compiler/understand-codebasenpx skills add nrh387/Cognition-Compiler --skill understand-codebasegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nrh387/Cognition-CompilerWhat 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 | $0.00021 | $0.01562 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00010 | $0.00781 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00004 | $0.00312 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00156 |
Grade A, and why
understand-codebase 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 yesterday.
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.
The source is not reproduced here
No licence file
A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.
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.
- reference/1-determine-techstack.md 2.0 KB
- reference/2-categorize-files.md 2.3 KB
- reference/3-identify-architecture.md 4.1 KB
- reference/4-domain-deep-dive.md 3.0 KB
- reference/5-styleguide-generation.md 1.6 KB
- reference/6-build-instructions.md 6.3 KB
- reference/api/assetmanagement_api.yml 103 KB
- reference/api/eventmanagement_api.yml 61 KB
- reference/api/iottimeserise_agg_api.yml 20 KB
- reference/api/iottimeserise_api.yml 24 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.
- yesterday First seen · 95 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A ef5767c726cd
understand-codebase is a skill published in the GitHub repository nrh387/Cognition-Compiler (1 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 1,562 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 2026-08-31.
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