path-reference-auditor

path-reference-auditor is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from richfrem/agent-plugins-skills. It costs 96 tokens per session (1,938 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checker for file paths written in plugins and skills. It finds referenced files, verifies that they stay within the right component, and checks that they exist.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan, inventory, and verify relative file references in plugin and skill files.
Why use it?
It finds broken or non-portable references before a plugin is installed or moved to another environment.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the agent-scaffolders plugin — 33 skills, 2 plugins shipped together

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/richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/path-reference-auditor
Any agent
npx skills add richfrem/agent-plugins-skills --skill path-reference-auditor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/richfrem/agent-plugins-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agent-scaffolders, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 33 skills, 2 plugins.

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README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/path-reference-auditor"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/path-reference-auditor.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,938 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 $0.00096 $0.01938
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00969
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00388
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00194

Measured yesterday against content hash 1584451e60cf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

path-reference-auditor 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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 9 executable files (references/check_plugin_boundaries.py, references/check_skill_boundaries.py, references/path_reference_auditor.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

plugins/agent-scaffolders/skills/path-reference-auditor/SKILL.md · 268 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 268 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dependencies

This skill requires Python 3.8+ and standard library only. No external packages needed.

To install this skill's dependencies:

pip-compile ./requirements.in
pip install -r ./requirements.txt

See requirements.txt for the dependency lockfile (currently empty — standard library only).


Path Reference Auditor

Complete path reference audit system for plugins and skills. Ensures all ./file references in code actually exist.

What This Skill Does

Validates that file references in plugins and skills are:

  • Skill-local: References in .agents/skills/Y/ stay within Y/
  • Plugin-local: References in plugins/X/ (root level) stay within X/
  • Resolvable: All ./ paths point to actual files (or symlinks)

Generates an inventory.json database of all references for reuse in multiple checks.

Three-Phase Audit

Phase 1: SCAN

Find all ./reference patterns in .py, .md, .mmd, .json, .sh files. Populates temp/inventory.json with raw reference data.

python ./scripts/path_reference_auditor.py --project . --phase scan

Output: temp/inventory.json with all references found

Phase 2: VERIFY

Read inventory.json and check if each reference exists in the skill/plugin. Updates inventory with status: exists/missing/symlink/broken.

python ./scripts/path_reference_auditor.py --project . --phase verify

Output: temp/inventory.json with status information

Phase 3: REPORT

Generate analysis reports from verified inventory (no rescanning needed).

# Summary
python ./scripts/path_reference_auditor.py --project . --phase report --report summary

# Missing files
python ./scripts/path_reference_auditor.py --project . --phase report --report missing

# Broken symlinks
python ./scripts/path_reference_auditor.py --project . --phase report --report broken_symlinks

Inventory location: All reports read from temp/inventory.json (generated by Phase 1 & 2)

Read the full file on GitHub · 268 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. yesterday First seen · 268 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A 1584451e60cf

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path-reference-auditor is a skill published in the GitHub repository richfrem/agent-plugins-skills (6 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 1,938 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-03.

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