configure

configure is a skill for Claude Code from SponsioLabs/Sponsio. It costs 263 tokens per session (5,744 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A setup guide for connecting the Sponsio safety layer to a Claude Code plugin. Sponsio checks tool calls against written rules and can either record violations or block them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Setting up protections for popular MCP servers, scanning unsupported servers to create rules, and choosing whether violations should be logged or prevented.
Why use it?
Installing the plugin alone leaves its rule libraries empty, so tool calls are not checked. This guide fills in those libraries and configures the environment-specific settings.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PreToolUse hook event. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the sponsio-claude-code plugin — 1 skill, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Setting up protections for popular MCP servers, scanning unsupported servers to create rules, and choosing whether violations should be logged or prevented.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sponsiolabs/sponsio/configure
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 SponsioLabs/Sponsio --skill configure
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SponsioLabs/Sponsio

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sponsio-claude-code, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 263 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,744 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. ✓ AI security review Sonnet 5 · 6 Sept 2026 📄 Read the review Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 11 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Agent Snooping · line 90
    Skill reads from agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). These directories may contain API keys, personal settings, and other credentials that the skill has no legitimate need to access.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that access agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). If configuration values are needed, pass them explicitly as parameters or environment variabl
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 120
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Rogue Agent · line 404
    Skill modifies its own code, configuration, or behavior at runtime. Self-modification enables an agent to escalate privileges, disable safety constraints, or install persistent backdoors.
    Fix: Prevent the skill from modifying its own code, SKILL.md, or configuration files. Treat skill files as read-only at runtime.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 470
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 470
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Agent Snooping · line 547
    Skill accesses MCP server configuration files (mcp.json). MCP configs contain server URLs, authentication tokens, and tool definitions — reading them allows the skill to discover and potentially abuse other tool integrations.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that read MCP configuration files (mcp.json). MCP server details should be managed by the agent runtime, not read by individual skills.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 45
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 55
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 376
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 543
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 549
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00263 $0.05744
Opus 5 $0.00131 $0.02872
Sonnet 5 $0.00053 $0.01149
Haiku 4.5 $0.00026 $0.00574

Measured 11d ago against content hash c038457a4ea6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

configure 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 11d 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.

plugins/sponsio-claude-code/skills/configure/SKILL.md · 558 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 558 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

sponsio-claude-code — configure the host shield

You are walking the user through configuring the sponsio-claude-code plugin so it actually wraps tool calls in this Claude Code session. Without these steps, the plugin loads but every per-plugin library is empty and every tool call passes through unguarded.

The flow has two halves: setup (steps 1–2, 4–6) covers the common case where the user runs popular MCP servers we ship starters for; scan (step 3) covers plugins / MCP servers without a bundled starter and lives inline because most sessions touch both halves.

Prerequisites (check silently first)

Run:

sponsio --version
  • Not found → tell the user to install: pip install sponsio (or pip install -e ".[all]" from a local clone). Stop here until they confirm.
  • Present → continue.

If the user owns the agent code and wants to wire Sponsio into their own framework integration (LangGraph, OpenAI Agents, Claude Agent SDK, …) instead of running it as a Claude Code host plugin, delegate to the sponsio skill (sponsio onboard .). This skill is only for the host-plugin case where the user is gating tool calls inside their Claude Code session.

Routing rules from a policy document

Sponsio has two layers, and rules must land in the right YAML or they do nothing. When the user hands you a policy document / instruction file / "list of things the agent must not do" and asks you to encode it, classify each rule before writing anywhere.

Signal → Layer 1 (this skill — write to ~/.sponsio/plugins/<id>/sponsio.yaml) → Layer 2 (delegate to sponsio skill — writes <project>/sponsio.yaml)
Tool names mentioned Bash, Edit, Write, Read, mcp__* tool names from the user's project's tool inventory
Path form absolute or ~/... paths outside the user's project paths relative to the project (src/...)
Subject of the rule "Cursor must not…", "Claude Code must not…" "the loan agent must…", "the chatbot should…"
Domain language shell, git, file system, MCP server primitives AML, KYC, refund, PII, approval, faithfulness, hallucination
./sponsio.yaml exists in cwd weaker signal — Layer 2 is in play, but rule may still be Layer 1 stronger signal — most rules belong here

Read the full file on GitHub · 558 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. 11d ago First seen · 558 lines · 263 tokens per session scan E c038457a4ea6

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configure is a skill published in the GitHub repository SponsioLabs/Sponsio (440 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 263 tokens to every session and 5,744 once invoked, about $0.0013 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 2026-08-30.

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