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 OpenCoven/coven --skill opencoven-role-creation-processgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OpenCoven/covenWrote 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/opencoven/coven/opencoven-role-creation-process)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/opencoven/coven/opencoven-role-creation-process"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/opencoven/coven/opencoven-role-creation-process/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/opencoven/coven/opencoven-role-creation-process"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/opencoven/coven/opencoven-role-creation-process.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium
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 →
- medium Rogue Agent · line 23 Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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 | $0.00027 | $0.00775 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00014 | $0.00387 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00005 | $0.00155 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00077 |
Grade A, and why
OpenCoven Role Creation Process 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
OpenCoven Role Creation Process
Use this skill when a CovenCave user wants to create, review, revise, or standardize Roles for familiars.
A Role is not a plugin list. A Role is the familiar's domain-specific way of being while doing a class of work. It bundles identity context, skills, tools, workflows, plugins, and permission declarations.
Low-Lift Agentic Flow
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Read the familiar.
- Load the familiar's
SOUL.md,IDENTITY.md, local skill doctrine, existing Roles, and any user-provided purpose. - If the familiar has no workspace yet, create or select one before writing Roles.
- Load the familiar's
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Decide whether a Role is actually needed.
- Use a Role for a domain-specific frame plus workflows and permissions.
- Use a Skill for one reusable procedure.
- Use a Workflow for one multi-step path inside an existing Role.
- Use a Plugin/tool grant for capability without identity context.
- Leave core identity in
SOUL.md.
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Draft the Role.
- Use
templates/ROLE.mdas the starting point. - Keep the body specific enough to change behavior.
- Do not duplicate the familiar's
SOUL.md.
- Use
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Draft workflows.
- Every item listed in the Role's
workflows:frontmatter should have a matching file underworkflows/<workflow-id>.md. - Use
templates/workflow.md.
- Every item listed in the Role's
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Choose canonical placement.
- Familiar-specific source of truth:
~/.coven/roles/familiars/<familiar>/<role-id>/. - Shared global source of truth:
~/.coven/roles/global/<role-id>/. - Symlink into the harness-visible familiar workspace:
<familiar-workspace>/roles/<role-id>.
- Familiar-specific source of truth:
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Set activation deliberately.
- Primary domain Roles may start active after review.
- Narrow task Roles should start inactive.
- High-authority Roles should start inactive.
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Validate.
- Run
scripts/validate-roles.mjs. - Confirm required frontmatter, listed workflows, symlinks, and
SOUL.mdrelationship text.
- Run
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Report cleanly.
- Roles created.
- Roles activated.
- Source files read.
- Validation output.
- Open questions or permission risks.
What ships with it
3 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.
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 97 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 36098d537308
OpenCoven Role Creation Process is a skill published in the GitHub repository OpenCoven/coven (47 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 775 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.
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