text-file-read

text-file-read is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from opensquilla/opensquilla. It costs 85 tokens per session (570 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A helper that reads a UTF-8 text file and prints its exact contents without added line numbers or formatting.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when another tool needs to receive a text file unchanged.
Why use it?
It preserves the original bytes and structure of scripts, subtitles, and other text files during handoffs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when another tool needs to receive a text file unchanged.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/opensquilla/opensquilla/text-file-read
About the project

OpenSquilla is a token-efficient AI agent with a shared execution loop for CLI, web, and chat interfaces. It routes requests among language models, while providing persistent memory, sandboxing, web search, embeddings, and tool handling for agent-based tasks. Its catalogue entries are skills that extend the agent's workflows.

opensquilla/opensquilla · 7,096 stars · on GitHub · opensquilla.ai

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 opensquilla/opensquilla --skill text-file-read
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/opensquilla/opensquilla

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 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. 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 $0.00085 $0.00570
Opus 5.5 $0.00034 $0.00228
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00114
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00057

Measured 1mo ago against content hash bf67aa8c85fb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

text-file-read 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/read.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

src/opensquilla/skills/bundled/text-file-read/SKILL.md · 54 lines

What it actually says

text-file-read

Reads a UTF-8 text file and prints its contents verbatim to stdout (no line numbers, no decoration). Use this when a meta-skill needs to round-trip an artefact through disk between steps so the user can hand-edit the file during a clarify pause.

This skill exists alongside OpenSquilla's builtin read_file tool on purpose: read_file is designed for LLM display and prepends a lineno\t prefix to every line, which corrupts structured files (scripts, SRT, YAML) when piped back into downstream parsers. This skill returns the bytes unmodified.

Inputs (with:)

key required default notes
input yes — Absolute path of the file to read.
max_bytes no 200000 Refuse to read files larger than this. Guards against accidental binary reads.

Output

The file's UTF-8 content on stdout. No trailing newline added or stripped.

Failure modes

  • Path missing → exit 1, stderr explains.
  • File exceeds max_bytes → exit 1, stderr carries the actual size.
  • Decode error → exit 1 (file isn't valid UTF-8).
Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 1mo ago First seen · 54 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A bf67aa8c85fb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

text-file-read is a skill published in the GitHub repository opensquilla/opensquilla (7,096 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 570 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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