Brigade is an ecosystem for running crews of AI agents as a personal intelligence system, with local handling of credentials and support for exposing agent crews to the internet for testing. It is for people who want to organize and operate multiple AI agents using their own API keys or existing Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude Code, or Codex access. The catalogue skills provide workflows for using Brigade and its agent ecosystem.
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.
npx skills add spinabot/brigade --skill himalayagit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/spinabot/brigadeWrote 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/spinabot/brigade/himalaya)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/spinabot/brigade/himalaya"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/spinabot/brigade/himalaya/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/spinabot/brigade/himalaya"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/spinabot/brigade/himalaya.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 | $0.00055 | $0.01173 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00022 | $0.00469 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00235 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00117 |
Grade A, and why
himalaya 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.
Copies of this mod
8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- himalaya — 100% identical, 2 lines differ
- himalaya — 98% identical, 2 lines differ
- himalaya — 98% identical, 2 lines differ
- himalaya — 98% identical, 42 lines differ
- himalaya — 98% identical, 2 lines differ
- himalaya — 98% identical, 2 lines differ
- himalaya — 98% identical, 2 lines differ
- himalaya — 98% identical, 2 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 258 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Himalaya Email CLI
Himalaya is a CLI email client that lets you manage emails from the terminal using IMAP, SMTP, Notmuch, or Sendmail backends.
References
references/configuration.md(config file setup + IMAP/SMTP authentication)references/message-composition.md(MML syntax for composing emails)
Prerequisites
- Himalaya CLI installed (
himalaya --versionto verify) - A configuration file at
~/.config/himalaya/config.toml - IMAP/SMTP credentials configured (password stored securely)
Configuration Setup
Run the interactive wizard to set up an account:
himalaya account configure
Or create ~/.config/himalaya/config.toml manually:
[accounts.personal]
email = "[email protected]"
display-name = "Your Name"
default = true
backend.type = "imap"
backend.host = "imap.example.com"
backend.port = 993
backend.encryption.type = "tls"
backend.login = "[email protected]"
backend.auth.type = "password"
backend.auth.cmd = "pass show email/imap" # or use keyring
message.send.backend.type = "smtp"
message.send.backend.host = "smtp.example.com"
message.send.backend.port = 587
message.send.backend.encryption.type = "start-tls"
message.send.backend.login = "[email protected]"
message.send.backend.auth.type = "password"
message.send.backend.auth.cmd = "pass show email/smtp"
Common Operations
List Folders
himalaya folder list
List Emails
List emails in INBOX (default):
himalaya envelope list
List emails in a specific folder:
himalaya envelope list --folder "Sent"
List with pagination:
himalaya envelope list --page 1 --page-size 20
Search Emails
himalaya envelope list from [email protected] subject meeting
Read an Email
Read email by ID (shows plain text):
himalaya message read 42
Export raw MIME:
himalaya message export 42 --full
Reply to an Email
Interactive reply (opens $EDITOR):
himalaya message reply 42
What ships with it
2 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.
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 · 258 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 3df5428284ab
himalaya is a skill published in the GitHub repository spinabot/brigade (11,352 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,173 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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first-task
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initiate-setup
Run the first-run setup chat in the Hermes desktop app.
himalaya
Himalaya CLI: IMAP/SMTP email from terminal.
apple-reminders
Apple Reminders via remindctl: add, list, complete.
keybindings-help
Use when the user wants to customize keyboard shortcuts, rebind keys, add chord bindings, or modify /.claude/keybindings.json. Examples: "rebind ctrl+s", "add a chord shortcut", "change the submit key", "customize keybindings".
read-session
Locate and read Muse Code's OWN session logs — the current session or a prior one. Use when the user asks to pull context from, continue, summarize, or inspect a previous Muse Code session, asks to restore or recover work that was lost, wiped, or overwritten and might survive in an earlier session's log, references an…