goat

goat is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sidtheone/zodiac-skills. It costs 197 tokens per session (1,414 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

An exploration method that deliberately considers less familiar approaches instead of settling on the most common solution. It encourages looking at a problem from different angles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore alternative designs, unusual approaches, and solutions outside the usual coding patterns.
Why use it?
It helps when the standard solution may not be the best fit or when new options are needed.

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 to explore alternative designs, unusual approaches, and solutions outside the usual coding patterns.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sidtheone/zodiac-skills/goat
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 sidtheone/zodiac-skills --skill goat
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sidtheone/zodiac-skills

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.

agentmods badge for goat

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sidtheone/zodiac-skills/goat/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/sidtheone/zodiac-skills/goat)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sidtheone/zodiac-skills/goat"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sidtheone/zodiac-skills/goat/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for goat

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sidtheone/zodiac-skills/goat"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sidtheone/zodiac-skills/goat.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 197 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,414 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00197 $0.01414
Opus 5 $0.00098 $0.00707
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.00283
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00141

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9a69f96123ad, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

goat 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 12d 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.

goat/SKILL.md · 80 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

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.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 80 lines · 197 tokens per session scan A 9a69f96123ad

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goat is a skill published in the GitHub repository sidtheone/zodiac-skills (7 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 197 tokens to every session and 1,414 once invoked, about $0.0010 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 2026-08-31.

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