echo

echo is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from qingxuantang/tar-engine. It costs 50 tokens per session (324 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A simple add-on that repeats the user's input exactly.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for greetings, smoke tests, literal echo requests, or other purely conversational checks.
Why use it?
It provides a quick way to check that the agent is responding or to confirm text without analysing or changing it.

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/qingxuantang/tar-engine/echo
Any agent
npx skills add qingxuantang/tar-engine --skill echo
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/qingxuantang/tar-engine

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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agentmods badge for echo

README.md
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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 324 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 $0.00050 $0.00324
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00162
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00065
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00032

Measured 3d ago against content hash 255c017db701, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

echo 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.

packs/hello-world/skills/echo/SKILL.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

Echo Skill

The simplest possible skill — it echoes the user's wish back as the result.

When to use

Use this skill when the user wish is:

  • A greeting: "hi", "hello", "hey there"
  • A literal echo request: "echo hello world", "say something"
  • A smoke test: "is this working?"
  • Anything purely conversational that doesn't need data, fetching, or analysis

How to respond

No tools needed. No scripts to call. Just respond with a single message that includes the user's wish text wrapped in a brief acknowledgment.

Format:

You said: <verbatim user input>

That's the entire skill. Done.

What this skill demonstrates

This SKILL.md format is the standard Claude Code skill format. The TAR Engine reads this file and puts it in the LLM's system prompt. The LLM then produces a response — for trivial skills like this one, no run_bash / read_file / write_file tool calls are needed.

For skills that need data or scripts, the SKILL.md instructs the LLM to call run_bash to invoke scripts in the same skill directory. See url-summarize/SKILL.md in this pack for that pattern.

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 · 41 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 255c017db701

Subscribe to this mod's changes

echo is a skill published in the GitHub repository qingxuantang/tar-engine (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 324 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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