What is running-the-agent?

A guide to running miniagent, a small coding agent, on your computer, on a remote machine, or using both. It covers Ollama, environment settings, MCP connections, the interactive command line, and provider fallback.

Use it when running agent.py, adding a provider, configuring a .env file, connecting MCP tools, or debugging tool calls.

It helps you set up the agent and diagnose problems when it cannot call tools or when you need to switch providers.

How sergenes/mini_agent configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to sergenes/mini_agent. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sergenes/mini_agent/main/.claude/skills/running-the-agent/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sergenes/mini_agent

Made for: Claude Code.

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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.

README.md

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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.

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 649 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 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00055	$0.00649
Opus 5.5	$0.00022	$0.00260
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00011	$0.00130
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00065

Measured 2mo ago against content hash c525152f6c3c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

running-the-agent 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 2mo 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.

.claude/skills/running-the-agent/SKILL.md · 66 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

Read it on GitHub

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.

2mo ago First seen · 66 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A c525152f6c3c

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running-the-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository sergenes/mini_agent (37 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 649 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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running-the-agent next to 6 skills from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
running-the-agentsergenes/mini_agent	Skill	37	2mo ago	none	A	55	Claude Code
agentcore-investigationawslabs/mcp	Skill	9.9k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	52	Claude Code, Codex
operator-gotchasdylanroscover/Embody	Skill	212	yesterday	MIT	A	74	Claude Code
debug-operatordylanroscover/Embody	Skill	212	yesterday	MIT	A	21	Claude Code
hecate-uihecatehq/hecate	Skill	24	yesterday	MIT	A	43	Claude Code, Codex
hmem-new-errorBumblebiber/hmem	Skill	24	6d ago	MIT	A	69	Claude Code, Codex
slow-query-optimizeDeepSQLAI/deepsql	Skill	40	5d ago	Apache-2.0	A	28	Claude Code, Codex

mini_agent: Skill for Claude Code