Getting it into your agent
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pjt222/agent-almanacnpx agentmods add skills/pjt222/agent-almanac/create-glyphWrote 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/pjt222/agent-almanac/create-glyph)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/pjt222/agent-almanac/create-glyph"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/pjt222/agent-almanac/create-glyph/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/pjt222/agent-almanac/create-glyph"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/pjt222/agent-almanac/create-glyph.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- high Tool Misuse · line 300 Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
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 | $0.00106 | $0.04273 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00053 | $0.02136 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00021 | $0.00855 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00427 |
Grade A, and why
create-glyph 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 5d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 380 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Create Glyph
Create R-based pictogram glyphs for skill, agent, or team icons in the viz/ visualization layer. Each glyph is a pure-ggplot2 function that draws a recognizable shape on a 100x100 canvas, rendered with a neon glow effect to transparent-background WebP.
When to Use
- A new skill, agent, or team has been added and needs a visual icon
- An existing glyph needs replacement or redesign
- Batch-creating glyphs for a new domain of skills
- Prototyping visual metaphors for entity concepts
Inputs
- Required: Entity type —
skill,agent, orteam - Required: Entity ID (e.g.,
create-glyph,mystic,r-package-review) and domain (for skills) - Required: Visual concept — what the glyph should depict
- Optional: Reference glyph to study for complexity level
- Optional: Custom
--glow-sigmavalue (default: 4)
Procedure
Step 1: Concept — Design the Visual Metaphor
Identify the entity being iconified and choose a visual metaphor.
- Read the entity's source file to understand its core concept:
- Skills:
skills/<id>/SKILL.md - Agents:
agents/<id>.md - Teams:
teams/<id>.md
- Skills:
- Choose a metaphor type:
- Literal object: a flask for experiments, a shield for security
- Abstract symbol: arrows for merging, spirals for iteration
- Composite: combine 2-3 simple shapes (e.g., document + pen)
- Reference existing glyphs for complexity calibration:
Complexity Tiers:
+----------+--------+-------------------------------------------+
| Tier | Layers | Examples |
+----------+--------+-------------------------------------------+
| Simple | 2 | glyph_flame, glyph_heartbeat |
| Moderate | 3-5 | glyph_document, glyph_experiment_flask |
| Complex | 6+ | glyph_ship_wheel, glyph_bridge_cpp |
+----------+--------+-------------------------------------------+
- Decide on a function name:
glyph_<descriptive_name>(snake_case, unique)
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.
- 5d ago First seen · 380 lines · 106 tokens per session scan A 4a143181acce
create-glyph is a skill published in the GitHub repository pjt222/agent-almanac (32 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 106 tokens to every session and 4,273 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-03.
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