shell

shell is a skill for Claude Code, Cursor from saski/arnesto. It costs 36 tokens per session (187 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of shell, Unlicense.

A command-runner instruction for Cursor that executes the text following an explicit /shell command directly in a terminal.

In plain words
What is it for?
Running terminal commands through /shell and reporting the result afterward.
Why use it?
It lets users run an exact shell command without the agent changing or interpreting it first.

Skill for Claude CodeCursor

Written for Claude Code and Cursor: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Running terminal commands through /shell and reporting the result afterward.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/saski/arnesto/shell
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add saski/arnesto --skill shell
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/saski/arnesto

Made for: Claude Code, Cursor.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 187 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.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00036 $0.00187
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00093
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00037
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00019

Measured 3d ago against content hash b354ce28c70a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shell 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 3d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to shell — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.cursor/skills-cursor/shell/SKILL.md · 25 lines

What it actually says

Run Shell Commands

Use this skill only when the user explicitly invokes /shell.

Behavior

  1. Treat all user text after the /shell invocation as the literal shell command to run.
  2. Execute that command immediately with the terminal tool.
  3. Do not rewrite, explain, or "improve" the command before running it.
  4. Do not inspect the repository first unless the command itself requires repository context.
  5. If the user invokes /shell without any following text, ask them which command to run.

Response

  • Run the command first.
  • Then briefly report the exit status and any important stdout or stderr.
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. 3d ago First seen · 25 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A b354ce28c70a

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shell is a skill published in the GitHub repository saski/arnesto (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed Unlicense. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 187 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to shell, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.