nw-canary

nw-canary is a skill for Claude Code from nWave-ai/nWave. It costs 12 tokens per session (113 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A test-only skill used to check whether skill instructions were loaded automatically. The input does not describe any normal development or user-facing work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it only for the project's injection-detection tests. It is not described as a tool for building, debugging, or documenting software.
Why use it?
It helps detect unwanted automatic loading of instructions. Beyond that check, the input gives no practical reason to use it.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it only for the project's injection-detection tests. It is not described as a tool for building, debugging, or documenting software.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nwave-ai/nwave/nw-canary
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 nWave-ai/nWave --skill nw-canary
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nWave-ai/nWave

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 12 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 113 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00012 $0.00113
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00056
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00023
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00011

Measured 10d ago against content hash 0906a2424468, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nw-canary 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 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.

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.

nWave/skills/nw-canary/SKILL.md · 19 lines

What it actually says

Canary Skill

This skill exists solely for injection detection (ADR-006).

If you can read this content without explicitly loading the file, auto-injection is active and working.

Passphrase: NWAVE_SKILL_INJECTION_ACTIVE_2026

Do not modify this file. Its content integrity is verified by automated tests in tests/canary/test_skill_injection.py.

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. 10d ago First seen · 19 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 0906a2424468

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nw-canary is a skill published in the GitHub repository nWave-ai/nWave (610 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 113 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.