vent

vent is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rcarmo/piclaw-addons. It costs 17 tokens per session (135 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A logging tool for recording major work friction and postmortem feedback in a configured workspace log. It is intended for problems such as repeated tool failures, unclear instructions, or flaky commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document recurring failures, misleading documentation, confusing directions, and other avoidable problems worth remembering.
Why use it?
It preserves useful lessons about issues that slowed down or degraded the work, without recording every minor inconvenience.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

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/rcarmo/piclaw-addons/vent
Any agent
npx skills add rcarmo/piclaw-addons --skill vent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rcarmo/piclaw-addons

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 135 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 5.1 $0.00017 $0.00135
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00068
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00027
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00014

Measured 6d ago against content hash d9d2d62f8ea0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vent 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 6d 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.

addons/vent/skills/vent/SKILL.md · 22 lines

What it actually says

Use the vent tool only when something materially slowed down or degraded the work:

  • repeated tool failures
  • broken or misleading documentation
  • confusing instructions
  • flaky commands
  • avoidable friction worth remembering

Guidelines:

  • use it sparingly
  • prefer one batched vent near the end of the turn
  • be specific about what happened and what would improve it next time
  • do not use it as a substitute for finishing the user's task

The tool writes to the output file configured in Settings → Vent.

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. 6d ago First seen · 22 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A d9d2d62f8ea0

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vent is a skill published in the GitHub repository rcarmo/piclaw-addons (23 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 135 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.

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