agents-brain

agents-brain is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PaulRBerg/agent-skills. It costs 37 tokens per session (2,493 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A documentation editor for the instructions and context that guide software agents and developers in a repository. It covers files such as README.md, AGENTS.md, skills, and workflow notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or improve repository documentation, agent instructions, installed skills, command references, and durable workflow guidance.
Why use it?
It helps keep project guidance accurate, consistent, and useful at the point where people or agents need it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: argument-hint in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to create or improve repository documentation, agent instructions, installed skills, command references, and durable workflow guidance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/paulrberg/agent-skills/agents-brain
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 PaulRBerg/agent-skills --skill agents-brain
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PaulRBerg/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.

agentmods badge for agents-brain

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/paulrberg/agent-skills/agents-brain/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/paulrberg/agent-skills/agents-brain)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/paulrberg/agent-skills/agents-brain"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/paulrberg/agent-skills/agents-brain/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for agents-brain

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/paulrberg/agent-skills/agents-brain"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/paulrberg/agent-skills/agents-brain.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,493 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 $0.00037 $0.02493
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01247
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00499
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00249

Measured 4d ago against content hash 8964d5e0d336, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agents-brain 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/fetch-guidance.sh), 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

Requires curl and a writable user cache directory; network populates or refreshes the GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1
skills/agents-brain/SKILL.md · 181 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 181 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agents Brain

If these instructions are already present in the conversation from a slash or dollar invocation, follow them directly; do not invoke this skill again through a skill tool.

Create or polish repo-local context as one coherent system: human-facing README.md files, agent-facing AGENTS.md files with companion CLAUDE.md symlinks, existing project-installed skills under .agents/skills, eligible source-catalog skills under skills/<name>/, and context docs — any other Markdown files, under any name or directory, whose content is durable guidance for agents or humans, such as conventions, command catalogs, data-format rules, workflow runbooks, and reference material.

Success means every selected target is grounded in repository evidence, respects its audience and scope, spends agent context only on guidance that changes behavior, and passes the narrowest repository-defined validation. Stop after reporting completed or planned changes, validation, and any blockers.

Model and Context Optimization

Optimize skills and other agent-facing context for GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 while preserving README.md as clear human-facing documentation. Before complex, long-running, multi-tool, or orchestration-heavy context work, resolve scripts/fetch-guidance.sh relative to this skill directory, run it once for gpt-6-astra and once for claude-fable-5-1, and read both returned files completely. The helper retrieves the official GPT-6 Astra prompting guidance and Claude Fable 5.1 prompting guidance because their recommendations may evolve. Simple context work does not require either guide.

Accept an integrity-valid cached guide for 24 hours. Use --refresh for explicitly latest or change-sensitive work, materially disputed guidance, or conflicts with observed model behavior. Interpret helper diagnostics precisely:

Read the full file on GitHub · 181 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 4d ago Changed · +1 lines 8964d5e0d336
  2. 10d ago First seen · 180 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 963246315b1d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agents-brain is a skill published in the GitHub repository PaulRBerg/agent-skills (70 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 2,493 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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