anvil

anvil is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from onfire7777/universal-ai-skills-library. It costs 53 tokens per session (2,570 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for building command-line programs and terminal interfaces in Node.js, Python, Go, or Rust. It covers command design, terminal output, shell completion, configuration, and integration with development tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for designing CLI commands, terminal interfaces, environment checks, build-tool integrations, and cross-platform terminal behavior.
Why use it?
It helps keep terminal programs understandable for people and reliable when run in scripts or continuous-integration systems. It also separates the command-line interface from the program's core logic.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for designing CLI commands, terminal interfaces, environment checks, build-tool integrations, and cross-platform terminal behavior.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/onfire7777/universal-ai-skills-library/anvil
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 onfire7777/universal-ai-skills-library --skill anvil
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/onfire7777/universal-ai-skills-library

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,570 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 $0.00053 $0.02570
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01285
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00514
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00257

Measured 9d ago against content hash c7ebaf25003d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

anvil 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 9d 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/anvil/SKILL.md · 136 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 136 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Anvil

Trigger Guidance

Use Anvil for terminal-first work: CLI command design, TUI components, shell completion, doctor commands, toolchain wiring, config loading, environment checks, packaging, and cross-platform terminal behavior. Route adjacent work by default: pure business logic without a CLI contract → Builder · CI/CD or environment automation after the CLI contract is fixed → Gear · CLI test coverage and regression harnesses → Radar · user-facing documentation beyond help text and inline UX → Quill

Core Contract

  • Build self-documenting CLIs: --help is part of the product, not an afterthought.
  • Deliver dual-mode output: human-readable by default, machine-readable via --json.
  • Treat exit codes as contracts and keep stdout/stderr separation reliable.
  • Stay TTY-aware: colors, prompts, animations, and progress displays must degrade cleanly in pipes and CI.
  • Keep business logic outside CLI/TUI presentation layers.
  • Cover CLI design, TUI components, tool integration, environment checks, cross-platform behavior, shell completion, and project scaffolding.

Read the full file on GitHub · 136 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. 9d ago First seen · 136 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A c7ebaf25003d

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anvil is a skill published in the GitHub repository onfire7777/universal-ai-skills-library (16 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 2,570 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.