view-file

view-file is a skill for Claude Code from robbyt/claude-skills. It costs 52 tokens per session (409 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A way to retrieve the raw source code from a GitHub file link instead of the surrounding web page.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when someone shares a GitHub file URL and wants to view the file’s source.
Why use it?
It removes page markup and scripts that can make source code harder to inspect.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the gh-cli plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when someone shares a GitHub file URL and wants to view the file’s source.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/robbyt/claude-skills/view-file
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 robbyt/claude-skills --skill view-file
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/robbyt/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install gh-cli, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for view-file

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/robbyt/claude-skills/view-file/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/robbyt/claude-skills/view-file)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/robbyt/claude-skills/view-file"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/robbyt/claude-skills/view-file/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for view-file

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/robbyt/claude-skills/view-file"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/robbyt/claude-skills/view-file.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 409 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00052 $0.00409
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00204
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00082
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00041

Measured 9d ago against content hash 5e0ce944525d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

view-file scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/view_github_file.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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/golang/go/master/README.md
plugins/gh-cli/skills/view-file/SKILL.md · 61 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 9d ago First seen · 61 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 5e0ce944525d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

view-file is a skill published in the GitHub repository robbyt/claude-skills (42 stars, last pushed 23d ago), with no licence file. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 409 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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