tirith-config

tirith-config is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nweii/agent-stuff. It costs 69 tokens per session (1,575 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

Operating guidance for Tirith, a terminal command checker that looks for deceptive URLs, hidden terminal control codes, and commands that pipe downloaded content directly into a shell.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when editing Tirith policy files, debugging blocked commands, choosing an approved way to run a command, checking bypass options, or running its health check.
Why use it?
It helps explain why a command was blocked and how to change policies or verify the protection without guessing from stale configuration.

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/nweii/agent-stuff/tirith-config
Any agent
npx skills add nweii/agent-stuff --skill tirith-config
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nweii/agent-stuff

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,575 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 $0.00069 $0.01575
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00788
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00315
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00158

Measured 4d ago against content hash 3db5baf6f89d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

tirith-config 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 4d 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.

Downloads and executes remote codemediumSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

Tirith intercepts shell commands and pasted content to catch homograph URLs (Cyrillic lookalikes, mixed scripts), ANSI escape injection, and `curl | bash`–style pipe-to-shell patterns. This skill encodes operating proced

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

Tirith intercepts shell commands and pasted content to catch homograph URLs (Cyrillic lookalikes, mixed scripts), ANSI escape injection, and `curl | bash`–style pipe-to-shell patterns. This skill encodes operating proced
skills/tirith-config/SKILL.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

tirith-config

Tirith intercepts shell commands and pasted content to catch homograph URLs (Cyrillic lookalikes, mixed scripts), ANSI escape injection, and curl | bash–style pipe-to-shell patterns. This skill encodes operating procedure — decision logic, verification rituals, and inherent gotchas. The current allowlist and tool version are not encoded here; query them at runtime.

Operating model

Tirith has four moving parts. Treat the live config as source of truth, not memory:

  • Shell hook — sourced via eval "$(tirith init --shell zsh)" in the user's shell profile. This is what wires per-command interception. Hook source files at ~/.local/share/tirith/shell/ are inert until the eval line is added to the profile.
  • Policy file~/.config/tirith/policy.yaml (global) and .tirith/policy.yaml (per-project, walks up from cwd). The per-project file wins when present.
  • Audit log~/.local/share/tirith/log.jsonl. Redacted previews, not full commands.
  • Receipts — created by tirith run <url>. Verifiable later with tirith receipt verify <sha256>.

tirith doctor is the canonical health check; it surfaces hook status, policy detection, and bypass mode in one shot.

Decision tree: a command was blocked

Three responses, each appropriate for a different shape of problem:

  1. Allowlist the hostname — only when the vendor is trusted and you'll pipe-shell from them repeatedly. Add to allowlist: in ~/.config/tirith/policy.yaml. Reserve for canonical installer domains (e.g., get.docker.com, sh.rustup.rs). Allowlist only suppresses pipe-shell rules for that exact hostname; content-level checks (homograph, mixed-script, ANSI) still run.
  2. tirith run <url> — for one-off installs you want to inspect. Downloads to a temp file, shows SHA256, runs static analysis, opens in a pager for review, executes only after confirmation, and writes a receipt.
  3. TIRITH=0 <cmd> prefix — per-command bypass when you've already vetted the script elsewhere or are operating in a known-safe context. The variable only persists for that single command. Disabled if allow_bypass: false in policy.

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 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. 4d ago First seen · 111 lines · 69 tokens per session scan B 3db5baf6f89d

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tirith-config is a skill published in the GitHub repository nweii/agent-stuff (8 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 1,575 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, 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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