openlink-license-reader

openlink-license-reader is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OpenLinkSoftware/ai-agent-skills. It costs 76 tokens per session (2,221 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reader for OpenLink Software license files, which use a binary encoding called ASN.1 DER. It uses OpenSSL to extract their fields and identify expired licenses.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect one license file or scan a directory of licenses for their details and expiration status.
Why use it?
It makes license contents readable without manually decoding the file format.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Good fit Use it to inspect one license file or scan a directory of licenses for their details and expiration status.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/openlinksoftware/ai-agent-skills/openlink-license-reader
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 OpenLinkSoftware/ai-agent-skills --skill openlink-license-reader
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OpenLinkSoftware/ai-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,221 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00076 $0.02221
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.01111
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00444
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00222

Measured 8d ago against content hash 861e4b964d68, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

openlink-license-reader scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 8d 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.

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

result = subprocess.run(
openlink-license-reader/SKILL.md · 232 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 232 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

Parse and display OpenLink .lic files (ASN.1 DER-encoded) in a clean, human-readable format using openssl asn1parse. Flags expired licenses. Supports single file or full directory scan.


Execution Routing

Default execution order when REST or remote access is needed:

  1. Local execution — parse license files directly using openssl asn1parse (primary mode)
  2. URIBurner REST functions — for remote license validation or registry lookups
  3. Terminal-owned OAuth flow — when a REST endpoint requires OAuth 2.0 authentication, execute the OAuth flow from the terminal (authorization code, client credentials, or device flow), capture the Bearer token, and inject it into subsequent REST/OpenAPI calls via Authorization: Bearer {token} headers
  4. MCP — if a remote MCP-enabled service exposes license validation tools

If the user names a specific mode or protocol, follow that preference instead.


Step 0 — Locate License File(s)

Resolve the target in this priority order:

Priority Source Detail
1 Explicit filename User provides a path — use as-is, skip all other steps
2 $OPL_LICENSE_DIR Check env var; scan that directory for *.lic files
3 OS default path See table below

OS Default License Paths

OS Default Path
macOS /Library/Application Support/openlink/Licenses
Linux /etc/oplmgr/
Windows C:\Program Files\OpenLink Software\UDA\bin\
# Detect OS
uname -s   # Darwin = macOS, Linux = Linux

# Check env var
echo $OPL_LICENSE_DIR

# List license files in resolved directory
ls "/Library/Application Support/openlink/Licenses/"*.lic 2>/dev/null

If multiple .lic files are found and no specific file was requested:

  • Default: scan all and produce a summary table (one row per file)
  • On request: inspect a single named file in full detail

Step 1 — Parse the License File

openssl asn1parse -in "{license-file}" -i -inform der

Read the full file on GitHub · 232 lines

Files

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.

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. 8d ago First seen · 232 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 861e4b964d68

Subscribe to this mod's changes

openlink-license-reader is a skill published in the GitHub repository OpenLinkSoftware/ai-agent-skills (38 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 2,221 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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