agentero-cli

A command-line tool for managing an Agentero research vault, a local collection of papers, notes, and related files. It can find, import, inspect, annotate, and export paper information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list or import papers, inspect figures and tables, check links between notes, add highlights or questions, download paper assets, and export bibliography data.
Why use it?
It gives scripts and coding agents a consistent way to work with research files and paper records. It also makes catalog checks and common paper tasks repeatable without opening the desktop reader.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/poco-ai/agentero/agentero-cli
Any agent
npx skills add poco-ai/Agentero --skill agentero-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/poco-ai/Agentero

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 117 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,915 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00117 $0.01915
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.00958
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00383
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00192

Measured 3d ago against content hash 766ab850df9f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agentero-cli 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 3d 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.

templates/vault/.agents/skills/agentero-cli/SKILL.md · 165 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 165 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agentero CLI

Role

You use the agentero CLI as a stable machine interface to an Agentero vault. The CLI is not a chat runtime: no BYOA, no ACP, no paper-reader. Reading and writing lecture-style NOTES.md is your job (or use the separate paper-reader skill / desktop Zap workflow).

Design reference (repo): docs/backend/cli.md.

Prerequisites

  • Binary name: agentero (POSIX). Desktop: 设置 → 关于 → 安装 CLI writes the ~/.local/bin/agentero symlink. If missing from PATH, say so and fall back to reading Vault files directly; do not invent catalog rows.
  • Prefer always passing --json (disables interactive prompts). JSON is a compact single line; --pretty pretty-prints for humans.
  • Destructive deletes: pass -y / --yes under --json / non-TTY.
  • Vault resolution (first wins): --vault <path> → env AGENTERO_VAULT → cwd walk-up (.agentero/catalog.sqlite) → CLI config default_vault.

Hard boundaries

Do Do not
Call CLI for vault/catalog/import/assets Spawn coding agents via CLI
Read files at returned paths Assume CLI wrote full lecture NOTES
Progressive disclosure L0→L4 Dump entire PDF/TeX into the prompt by default
Skip overwrite of user NOTES on re-import Force-overwrite without explicit user ask

Progressive disclosure (same as Vault model)

  1. L0AGENTS.md (if present)
  2. L1agentero paper list --json — returns only id/path/title per row; add --fields year,tags,abstract,… as needed, or --full for whole records
  3. L2{paper}/NOTES.md
  4. L2.5 — layout index + marks
    • agentero layout list <paper> --json (sidebar figures/tables/algorithms/formulas)
    • {paper}/marks/annotations.json (highlights / 批注) + {paper}/marks/<id>.json (asks / translates) — write these through the CLI, never by hand
  5. L3{paper}/PAPER.md (if no TeX)
  6. L4{paper}/source/** (TeX preferred when present)

After paper get --json, use data.assets (marksDir = reader annotations), data.suggestedReads / paper paths, then read_file those paths. Do not paste whole sources unless needed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 165 lines

Files

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.

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. 3d ago First seen · 165 lines · 117 tokens per session scan A 766ab850df9f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agentero-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository poco-ai/Agentero (336 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 117 tokens to every session and 1,915 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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