read_file

read_file is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ParendumOU/Nexora. It costs 0 tokens per session (105 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A file-reading skill that displays text from accessible files and can locate files when their paths are uncertain.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for inspecting source code, configuration, documentation, and other text files. Binary files are limited to metadata.
Why use it?
It avoids manually finding files and supports reading large files in smaller sections.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for inspecting source code, configuration, documentation, and other text files. Binary files are limited to metadata.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/parendumou/nexora/read_file
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 ParendumOU/Nexora --skill read_file
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ParendumOU/Nexora

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.

agentmods badge for read_file

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 105 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 $0.00000 $0.00105
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00053
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00021
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00011

Measured 7d ago against content hash 0434f90b3167, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

read_file 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (executor.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.

backend/src/seeds/skills/builtin/read_file/SKILL.md · 14 lines

What it actually says

Read File

Read contents of any accessible file on filesystem.

Usage

  • Use offset + limit for large files → avoid reading too much at once
  • Use file_find to locate files when path uncertain
  • Binary files: read metadata only — no display of binary content

Example

[{"name": "read_file", "args": {"path": "/app/src/main.py", "offset": 1, "limit": 50}}]
Files

What ships with it

2 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. 7d ago First seen · 14 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 0434f90b3167

Subscribe to this mod's changes

read_file is a skill published in the GitHub repository ParendumOU/Nexora (20 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 105 tokens. 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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