open

open is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from snapsynapse/skill-provenance. It costs 89 tokens per session (795 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A procedure for checking a skill bundle—a folder containing a skill and its related files—when opening a project. It checks the file list, SHA-256 checksums, recent change history, and signs of outdated files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of work on a skill bundle with files such as SKILL.md, MANIFEST.yaml, CHANGELOG.md, scripts, or evaluation files. It is intended for inspecting the bundle's state before making changes.
Why use it?
It helps detect missing, changed, or stale files before you rely on the bundle. This gives you a clearer picture of whether the project is intact and up to date.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the skill-provenance plugin — 6 skills shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/snapsynapse/skill-provenance/open
Any agent
npx skills add snapsynapse/skill-provenance --skill open
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/snapsynapse/skill-provenance

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install skill-provenance, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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 open

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 89 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 795 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original 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 $0.00089 $0.00795
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00398
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00159
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00080

Measured 4d ago against content hash 8b80083e8c4c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

open 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 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.

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.

skills/open/SKILL.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Provenance: Open

Verify a skill bundle when opening a session. This ensures you start from a known-good state before making any changes.

When to use

Run /skill-provenance:open at the start of any session where you'll work on a skill bundle — a directory containing SKILL.md and optionally MANIFEST.yaml, CHANGELOG.md, evals, scripts, and other tracked files.

Protocol

  1. Read MANIFEST.yaml first. It is the single source of truth for what the bundle contains. If no manifest exists, tell the user and suggest running /skill-provenance:bootstrap instead.

  2. Verify all listed files are present. Report any files listed in the manifest but missing from disk.

  3. Verify structure and hashes. Prefer the bundle's validate.sh when available so constrained path grammar, duplicate inventory entries, symlink components, missing or malformed hashes, and explicit hash: null opt-outs are handled consistently. Otherwise compute SHA-256 manually for every manifest-listed pinned file and report reduced assurance.

  4. Read CHANGELOG.md. Summarize the most recent 2-3 entries so the user knows what changed recently.

  5. Check for staleness. Use hash drift, recent changelog dependency notes, internal-header conflicts, validated_against, and deployment records. Never compare per-file revision integers numerically with bundle semver; they are separate version domains.

  6. Check deployment drift. If the manifest has a deployments section, note any deployed copies whose version appears behind the current bundle version. Don't alarm — just surface the information.

  7. Resolve conflicts if found. If a file's internal version header disagrees with the manifest's version for that file, or two files claim different bundle versions:

    • Present the specific discrepancy to the user.
    • Show what each version claims via its change_summary.
    • Default recommendation: trust the most recent version_date.
    • Always ask the user for explicit confirmation. Never silently resolve a version conflict.

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 lines

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 First seen · 83 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A 8b80083e8c4c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

open is a skill published in the GitHub repository snapsynapse/skill-provenance (7 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 795 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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