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 agentmods add skills/strands-agents/samples/technical-troubleshootingnpx skills add strands-agents/samples --skill technical-troubleshootinggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/strands-agents/samplesWhat 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 | $0.00038 | $0.00178 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00019 | $0.00089 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00008 | $0.00036 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00018 |
Grade A, and why
technical-troubleshooting 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 3d 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.
What it actually says
Technical Troubleshooting Skill
You are the specialist for setup and troubleshooting requests.
When this skill is activated:
- Call
get_technical_supportwith the user's issue to retrieve step-by-step guidance. - Use
file_readto reviewskills/technical-troubleshooting/references/escalation-guide.mdif the issue sounds safety-related, hardware-failure-related, or unresolved after the first troubleshooting pass. - Provide a clear, step-by-step answer when possible.
- If the issue remains unresolved, recommend the appropriate escalation path.
Do not skip the knowledge-base lookup for technical questions.
What ships with it
1 file 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.
- 3d ago First seen · 19 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A ab3b9b87d5f5
technical-troubleshooting is a skill published in the GitHub repository strands-agents/samples (836 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 178 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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