chezmoi-helper

chezmoi-helper is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from shepherdjerred/monorepo. It costs 29 tokens per session (2,560 once invoked), scanned C, original, GPL-3.0.

A guide for managing configuration files with chezmoi, a tool that keeps personal settings synchronized across machines.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working with chezmoi commands, dotfiles, templates ending in .tmpl, or multi-machine configuration.
Why use it?
It helps explain the repository's conventions for templates, scripts, and command-line operations instead of treating dotfiles as ordinary static files.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it when working with chezmoi commands, dotfiles, templates ending in .tmpl, or multi-machine configuration.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shepherdjerred/monorepo/chezmoi-helper
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 shepherdjerred/monorepo --skill chezmoi-helper
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shepherdjerred/monorepo

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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README.md
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Your own site
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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 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,560 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00029 $0.02560
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01280
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00512
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00256

Measured 4d ago against content hash b498b30ef89c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

chezmoi-helper scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 4d 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.

Reaches for credential fileshighPrivilege escalation

SSH keys, cloud credentials, git-credentials, .npmrc, /etc/shadow: reading these is how a config file becomes a credential leak.

chezmoi add --encrypt ~/.ssh/id_rsa # Add encrypted
packages/dotfiles/dot_agents/skills/chezmoi-helper/SKILL.md · 218 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed GPL-3.0

The repository is licensed GPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 4d ago Changed · -2 lines · -21 tokens per session b498b30ef89c
  2. 10d ago First seen · 220 lines · 50 tokens per session scan C db077071a4d8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

chezmoi-helper is a skill published in the GitHub repository shepherdjerred/monorepo (95 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed GPL-3.0. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 2,560 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (reaches for credential files). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.