fastmod

fastmod is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from pydantic/monty. It costs 17 tokens per session (173 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for applying the same code change across many matching places in a codebase.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for broad, pattern-based code updates, after checking that the replacement matches the intended code.
Why use it?
It reduces repetitive manual edits when a change affects many similar lines or files.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

About the project

Monty is a minimal Python interpreter written in Rust that runs AI-generated code in a restricted environment without direct filesystem, environment-variable, or network access. It is for AI agents that need to execute Python and type-checking tasks while allowing developers to control which host functions and objects the code can use, and the catalogue entries integrate it into agent workflows.

pydantic/monty · 8,162 stars · on GitHub

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/pydantic/monty/fastmod
Any agent
npx skills add pydantic/monty --skill fastmod
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pydantic/monty

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 173 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 $0.00017 $0.00173
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00086
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00035
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00017

Measured 5d ago against content hash 53a9f9b2e225, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fastmod 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.

.agents/skills/fastmod/SKILL.md · 23 lines

What it actually says

fastmod

Instructions

You can occasionally use fastmod or sed to make mass updates to the codebase and avoid wasting tokens changing each case one at a time.

Before making many repetitive changes to the codebase, consider using fastmod --accept-all.

THINK HARD about how best to use fastmod as it can dramatically improve your productivity.

Examples

Example of switching the py_type function to take heap: &Heap instead of a generic H: HeapAccess parameter:

fastmod --accept-all 'fn py_type<H: HeapAccess>\((.+?), heap: &H\b' 'fn py_type($1, heap: &Heap'
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. 5d ago First seen · 23 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 53a9f9b2e225

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fastmod is a skill published in the GitHub repository pydantic/monty (8,162 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 173 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.