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 pedroiff0/awesome-skills --skill obscure-tool-install-lookupgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pedroiff0/awesome-skillsWrote 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/pedroiff0/awesome-skills/obscure-tool-install-lookup)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/pedroiff0/awesome-skills/obscure-tool-install-lookup"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/pedroiff0/awesome-skills/obscure-tool-install-lookup/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/pedroiff0/awesome-skills/obscure-tool-install-lookup"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/pedroiff0/awesome-skills/obscure-tool-install-lookup.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00074 | $0.01734 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00037 | $0.00867 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00015 | $0.00347 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00173 |
Grade A, and why
obscure-tool-install-lookup 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.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
5. Last resort: `curl` the docs/README from the terminal (use `terminal`, not How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Obscure Tool / Agent Install Lookup
Overview
Users often ask "how do I install X?" for tools that are too new, too niche, or too vaguely named for a normal web search to surface authoritative instructions. This is especially common for AI "agent" projects that have a fan-facing name (e.g. "picoding agent") which does not match the canonical package name on npm/GitHub.
The trap: web_search is unavailable in many Hermes deployments, and the
browser route through Google/DuckDuckGo frequently hits CAPTCHA or
"verification" walls. The npm registry website is behind Cloudflare and also
blocks automated browsers. You must reach the same facts through endpoints that
are NOT bot-walled.
This skill documents the reliable fallback chain that resolves install instructions end-to-end without a working search engine.
When to Use
- User asks to install/use a tool, CLI, or agent whose exact package name is unknown or ambiguous.
- A web search engine (Google/DuckDuckGo/Bing) returns a CAPTCHA or verification page instead of results.
- npmjs.com / registries block the browser with "Just a moment..." (Cloudflare).
- You need the canonical install command, not a blog post reproducing it.
Don't use for: widely-known packages (just run npm i/read the well-known
docs), or tasks that need live web data rather than install steps.
The Primary Recipe (ordered)
Work the chain top to bottom. Stop as soon as you have a verified install command from an authoritative source.
-
Name disambiguation via GitHub repo search (not web search).
browser_navigatetohttps://github.com/search?q=<name>&type=repositories- Scan the result list for a repo whose name/description matches the tool. Fan names rarely equal package names — look for the description and the actual code (is it npm/Nix/PyPI?).
- Completion: you have 1–3 candidate repos with owner/name.
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Open the most promising repo and read its README.
browser_navigatetohttps://github.com/<owner>/<repo>.- If the README is truncated in the snapshot, fetch the raw file directly:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/<owner>/<repo>/<branch>/README.md(branch is usuallymainormaster; the repo page shows it). - Completion: you understand what the package actually is and where it installs from (npm scope, PyPI, cargo, etc.).
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.
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.
- 8d ago First seen · 142 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 8cb8e9340c28
obscure-tool-install-lookup is a skill published in the GitHub repository pedroiff0/awesome-skills (1 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 1,734 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.
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