using-string

A guide for using the installed String tool to work with connected apps, web pages, files, shell sessions, and commands. String provides commands for opening, editing, writing, installing, and configuring these resources.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reading or editing files, opening URLs and apps, running connected-app actions, managing installations and settings, and handling local webhook events.
Why use it?
It explains how to send the right commands to String and how to choose the appropriate topic for an app, shell, event, or system action.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/string-os/string/using-string
Any agent
npx skills add string-os/string --skill using-string
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/string-os/string

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 350 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 $0.00038 $0.00350
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00175
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00070
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00035

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4353f6cf49a6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

using-string 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 2d 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/string/skills/using-string/SKILL.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

Using String

You have the installed String MCP tool named string; some hosts display it with a server prefix.

Call it with { topic, cmd }, for example { "topic": "main", "cmd": "/info" }.

Use topics like main, app:<name>, app:<name>:<config>, bash:<name>, or hubs app, tool, bash, event, system.

cmd must start with /; use /help, /info, and /act --help to discover what to do.

Use /open to read files, URLs, or apps; installed apps can run /act.<name> directly from app:<name> if you already know the action.

Use /edit to inspect raw files, /write to create or overwrite, /append to add content, and /replace for exact text, block, or line-range edits.

Use /install to add apps; /set $VAR = "..." for app credentials.

Use topic event with /events, /events.read <id>, and /events.ack <id> to handle local webhook messages.

Claude Code may also receive those webhook messages through the String channel, but ack still happens with /events.ack <id>.

Read the payload inside <𝒞=string:TOPIC>...</𝒞> and follow Recovery: or next: hints.

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. 2d ago First seen · 29 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 4353f6cf49a6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

using-string is a skill published in the GitHub repository string-os/string (65 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 350 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.