ase-meta-quotes

ase-meta-quotes is a skill for Claude Code from rse/ase. It costs 86 tokens per session (1,944 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A quote-finding helper that collects sayings and citations about given topics and sorts them in a 2×2 matrix by whether a keyword appears literally and whether an author or source is known.

In plain words
What is it for?
It finds quotes from available knowledge and the web, records their wording, author, origin, and topic, and removes duplicates.
Why use it?
It helps separate directly matching quotes from related ones and clearly marks uncertain attribution or origin.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the ase plugin — 53 skills, 10 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit It finds quotes from available knowledge and the web, records their wording, author, origin, and topic, and removes duplicates.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rse/ase/ase-meta-quotes
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 rse/ase --skill ase-meta-quotes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rse/ase

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ase, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 53 skills, 10 agents, 5 hooks.

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.

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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,944 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00086 $0.01944
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00972
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00389
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00194

Measured 9d ago against content hash 54399c8ffa9b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ase-meta-quotes 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 9d 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.

plugin/skills/ase-meta-quotes/SKILL.md · 215 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 215 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

@${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-control.md @${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-skill.md @${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-getopt.md

$ARGUMENTS

    1. Set (set to empty).

    2. Determine the maximum total number of quotes to surface: set to ; if is non-numeric or less than or equal to 0, use the default 8 instead.

    1. Determine quotes -- sayings, aphorisms, maxims, proverbs, and citations -- which are about the topic , and store them in . Per quote, record its text, its author (a named person or organization, if any is known), its origin (a named work, standard, or document, if any is known), and as its source topic.

    2. Additionally -- and never instead -- gather quotes from the Internet/Web by using the ase-meta-search skill in a sub-agent with the following tool call:

      Agent( description: "Query Web Search Service", subagent_type: "ase:ase-meta-search", prompt: "Search the Internet/Web and gather quotes about the following topic: <keywords/>", run_in_background: false )

      Merge the returned quotes into , deduplicating quotes which differ only in punctuation, capitalization, or attribution wording, and remember for every quote whether the search confirmed its exact wording and attribution.

    1. Set .

    2. Determine the conceptual neighborhood of by using the ase-meta-proximity agent in a sub-agent with the following tool call:

      Agent( description: "Determine Conceptual Proximity", subagent_type: "ase:ase-meta-proximity", prompt: "<prompt/>", run_in_background: false )

    3. Parse the returned labeled list and set to the values of its PARENT: line (the broader topic), of its four SIBLING: lines (the same-level topics), and of its four CHILD: lines (the narrower topics).

Read the full file on GitHub · 215 lines

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 · 215 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 54399c8ffa9b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ase-meta-quotes is a skill published in the GitHub repository rse/ase (47 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 1,944 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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