visor: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/visor-agent-dev/SKILL.md

visor-agent-dev is a skill for Claude Code from probelabs/visor. It costs 49 tokens per session (4,572 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A development guide for building and extending Visor, a system for creating AI assistants. It covers assistant settings, workflows, checks, testing, and debugging.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or modifying Visor skills, workflows, checks, or assistant configuration files, including testing YAML and investigating execution traces.
Why use it?
It gives a consistent way to validate assistant changes without accidentally using real services, changing production settings, or exposing secrets.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

This is probelabs/visor's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on visor itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything visor configures →

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is extends: ../assistant.yaml # or path to your config.

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to probelabs/visor. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/probelabs/visor/main/.claude/skills/visor-agent-dev/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/probelabs/visor

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,572 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 54 findings, 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 Prompt Injection · line 479
    This pattern attempts to override system instructions or ignore safety constraints. Without LLM analysis, manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Remove or rewrite any text that instructs the agent to ignore prompts, override safety rules, or trust unverified content. Ensure skill content cannot be injected to alter agent behavior.
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 24
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 27
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 113
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 126
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 131
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 133
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 140
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 147
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 148
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 149
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 154
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 159
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 164
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 165
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 166
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 167
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 168
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 169
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 174
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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 $0.00049 $0.04572
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.01829
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00914
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00457

Measured 2mo ago against content hash f50c6fcc0185, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

visor-agent-dev 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 2mo 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.

.claude/skills/visor-agent-dev/SKILL.md · 499 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 499 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Visor Agent Development Skill

You are helping the user build or extend a visor-based AI assistant. Follow this structured workflow to ensure correctness, safety, and iterability.

SAFETY RULES — READ FIRST

  1. NEVER run with real providers (--no-mocks) without user confirmation. Real runs consume API credits and may trigger external side effects.
  2. NEVER modify or delete existing production configs (e.g., the main .visor.yaml or tyk-assistant.yaml) without explicit user approval. Work on copies or new files.
  3. NEVER commit API keys, tokens, or secrets into YAML files. Use ${ENV_VAR} references.
  4. NEVER add allowed_commands patterns like rm:*, sudo:*, chmod:*, or other destructive shell patterns to skills.
  5. NEVER run visor with --slack, --telegram, --a2a, or other runner flags unless the user explicitly asks — these connect to live services.
  6. Ask before running any command that hits external APIs (MCP servers, HTTP clients, etc.).
  7. When writing disallowed_commands for skills, always include: rm:*, sudo:*, shutdown:*, reboot:*, mkfs:*, dd:*.

RUNNING VISOR

All commands in this skill use npx -y @probelabs/visor@latest (aliased as visor below for brevity). When executing commands, always use the full npx form so it works out of the box without a global install:

npx -y @probelabs/visor@latest <command> [flags]

If the user has visor installed globally or as a project dependency, they may tell you to use visor directly — follow their preference.

DEVELOPMENT WORKFLOW

Follow these steps in order. The goal is: write tests first → validate config → iterate with mocks → graduate to real providers → debug with traces.

Step 1: Understand the Goal

Ask the user what they want to build:

  • A new skill (knowledge + tools bundle for the assistant)?
  • A new workflow (reusable multi-step pipeline)?
  • A new check (standalone analysis step)?
  • A modification to an existing assistant?

Read the full file on GitHub · 499 lines

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. 2mo ago First seen · 499 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A f50c6fcc0185

Subscribe to this mod's changes

visor-agent-dev is a skill published in the GitHub repository probelabs/visor (25 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 4,572 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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