Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add saski/arnesto --skill writing-bash-scriptsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/saski/arnestoWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/saski/arnesto/writing-bash-scripts)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/saski/arnesto/writing-bash-scripts"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/saski/arnesto/writing-bash-scripts/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/saski/arnesto/writing-bash-scripts"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/saski/arnesto/writing-bash-scripts.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00027 | $0.00128 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00051 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00026 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00013 |
Grade A, and why
writing-bash-scripts 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 1mo 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.
This is a copy
100% identical to writing-bash-scripts — 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.
What it actually says
Bash Script Style Guide
- Use
#!/usr/bin/env bashas shebang - Always use
set -euo pipefailfor safety - Keep scripts minimal: no unnecessary comments or echoes
- Minimal input validation; print usage to stderr and exit if inputs are missing/invalid
- Don't check for installed commands if failure is obvious on use
- Make script executable:
chmod +x <script> - Prefer concise, direct logic over verbosity
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 15 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 54d6db990e37
writing-bash-scripts is a skill published in the GitHub repository saski/arnesto (6 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Unlicense. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 128 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to writing-bash-scripts, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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