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 agentmods add skills/perpetualsoftware/pad/capturenpx skills add PerpetualSoftware/pad --skill capturegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PerpetualSoftware/padWhat 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 | $0.00010 | $0.00517 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00005 | $0.00259 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00002 | $0.00103 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00001 | $0.00052 |
Grade A, and why
capture 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 2d 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.
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.
What it actually says
If the pad CLI is missing (command not found), say so and point at
https://getpad.dev/install — don't retry or guess at alternate paths. If no
.pad.toml is found in the directory tree, first run pad auth whoami
(fast, safe, never blocks): if it shows a real user, this machine is already
set up — run pad workspace init to link and create the workspace
non-interactively, then continue capturing. If it reports anything else (not
configured, session expired), this machine hasn't finished setup — don't run
pad init/pad workspace init yourself. Both now fail fast when
stdin/stdout aren't terminals instead of hanging (BUG-2538/BUG-2577/
BUG-2592) — though on a harness whose stdin AND stdout look like a real
terminal they still drop into the browser flow — and either way the outcome
just means a human needs an interactive terminal, which doesn't help you. Tell the user to run pad init themselves in an
interactive terminal (in Claude Code, suggest ! pad init) and stop.
Before creating, run pad item list conventions --field trigger=always --field status=active --format json --full and apply whatever it returns —
always-on conventions are project rules the workspace has made mandatory
(privacy, sizing, format, etc.), and low-ceremony capture means skipping the
full bootstrap weight (dashboard, playbooks, roles), not skipping mandatory
rules. This is the only context load this skill does; it's deliberately
narrower than the main skill's full bootstrap.
Capture $ARGUMENTS into the Pad workspace as the item type it most
resembles (idea, task, bug, note), following any conventions just loaded.
Run pad collection list --format json to see the workspace's collections,
pick the best fit, then show what you're about to create (collection, title,
content) and confirm before running pad item create <collection> "<title>" --content "...". Keep the title short; put nuance in the content.
Exception: if any loaded convention explicitly opts into autonomous capture, skip the confirmation — create immediately and confirm with the new issue ID in one line, no ceremony. Confirm-first is the default for everyone else.
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 40 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A 19c3e2c67b75
capture is a skill published in the GitHub repository PerpetualSoftware/pad (146 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 517 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.
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