askit-capability-whats-new

askit-capability-whats-new is a skill for Claude Code from product-on-purpose/agent-skills-toolkit. It costs 88 tokens per session (1,854 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A survey tool that records new features and changes announced by Claude Code, Claude Cowork, Codex, and the agentskills.io specification. It compares current vendor release information with the last recorded version.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for periodic vendor reviews, checking what changed before a release, or researching new platform and specification capabilities.
Why use it?
It fills the gap between checking whether known facts are still true and discovering capabilities that have not yet been documented. The result is a dated record without making decisions for you.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Part of the agent-skills-toolkit plugin — 27 skills, 2 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook, 1 plugin shipped together

Good fit Use it for periodic vendor reviews, checking what changed before a release, or researching new platform and specification capabilities.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/product-on-purpose/agent-skills-toolkit/askit-capability-whats-new
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.

Any agent
npx skills add product-on-purpose/agent-skills-toolkit --skill askit-capability-whats-new
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/product-on-purpose/agent-skills-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-skills-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills, 2 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook, 1 plugin.

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Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,854 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.
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 $0.00088 $0.01854
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00927
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00371
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00185

Measured 11d ago against content hash 58544efb3c21, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

askit-capability-whats-new 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 11d 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.

skills/askit-capability-whats-new/SKILL.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

askit-capability-whats-new

Purpose

This repository asserts facts about software it does not control: what a runtime loads, what a manifest may declare, which component types a plugin can ship. Those facts reach the gate as normative text and as shipped findings, and every one of them was a page somebody read once.

Two machines already re-verify what we have written down. askit-standards-watch re-checks the agentskills.io specification against a pinned blob, and npm run vendor-watch re-checks pinned vendor sentences against the live page. Both answer the same question: did a fact we already depend on stop being true?

Neither answers the other question, and nothing did before this skill: what did the vendor ship that we have not looked at yet? A regression watch is blind to a new capability by construction, because a capability nobody has written down has no pin to fail.

This skill discovers and records. It owns docs/internal/capability-surveys/.

When to use

When someone asks what is new in Claude Code, Cowork, Codex or the upstream spec; before a release that will claim currency with the vendors; on a periodic sweep; or when a decision is about to rest on "the vendor probably supports that."

The one hard rule

This skill DISCOVERS and DOCUMENTS. It decides nothing.

It does not edit the capability matrix, a check module, STANDARD.md, vendor-claims.json, any pin other than its own proposed one, or a component's frontmatter. Deciding what a vendor change means for us is askit-capability-gap-analysis, and ratifying that is an ADR.

The separation is not bureaucratic. A survey that also proposed changes would be graded on how much it found, and a survey graded on volume stops reporting "nothing material", which is the most common and most useful result it produces.

Procedure

1. Read the pin, and never survey from a date

foundation/claims/surveyed-pin.json records, per surface, the version last surveyed. Start there.

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files 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. 11d ago First seen · 100 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A 58544efb3c21

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askit-capability-whats-new is a skill published in the GitHub repository product-on-purpose/agent-skills-toolkit (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 1,854 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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