external-adapter-echo

external-adapter-echo is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from runxhq/runx. It costs 22 tokens per session (115 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A minimal governed adapter that starts a trusted host subprocess and echoes the inputs it receives. It communicates over standard input and output and records the reported result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Using it as a graph step to test subprocess startup, permission delivery, message exchange, and result sealing.
Why use it?
It provides a small test case for checking how an external adapter is invoked and how its result is recorded, while making clear that it is not an operating-system sandbox.

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/runxhq/runx/external-adapter-tool
Any agent
npx skills add runxhq/runx --skill external-adapter-tool
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/runxhq/runx

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 external-adapter-echo

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/runxhq/runx/external-adapter-tool"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/runxhq/runx/external-adapter-tool.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 115 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 $0.00022 $0.00115
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00057
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00023
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00012

Measured 6d ago against content hash c72535bc277b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

external-adapter-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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (adapter.mjs), 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.

examples/external-adapter-tool/SKILL.md · 11 lines

What it actually says

A minimal external adapter (runx.external_adapter.v1). The runtime resolves the manifest, spawns the declared trusted host subprocess, delivers its resolved grant, hands it the invocation over stdio, and seals the adapter's reported result. The process is not an OS confinement boundary. Run it as a step in a graph (the external-adapter source is a graph-step front, not a top-level runner).

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 6d ago First seen · 11 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A c72535bc277b

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external-adapter-echo is a skill published in the GitHub repository runxhq/runx (84 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 115 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.