sync-external-resources

A milestone-based reference guide for deciding when to consult outside repositories, libraries, hosting options, or CI systems. It records whether each source is important, optional, or not useful for a particular decision.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when choosing an adapter vendor, evaluating a dependency, or deciding whether to build or buy hosting and continuous-integration infrastructure.
Why use it?
It prevents teams from loading unrelated research and helps keep external references tied to the question they are meant to answer.

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/stroland02/sync/sync-external-resources
Any agent
npx skills add stroland02/Sync --skill sync-external-resources
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stroland02/Sync

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,671 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 $0.00065 $0.01671
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00835
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00334
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00167

Measured 2d ago against content hash 15bfc2d84cba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sync-external-resources 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.

.agents/skills/sync-external-resources/SKILL.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

External resources, attached to the milestone that needs them

Nine repositories were nominated as background reading. Loading all nine at every milestone is the failure this file exists to prevent — most are irrelevant to an API-binding engine most of the time, and a reference consulted at the wrong moment is a distraction wearing the costume of diligence.

Each entry carries a verdict, the milestone that should consult it, and the specific question it answers. Read only the row whose milestone is in hand.

Verdicts mean:

  • LOAD-BEARING — a real input to a design decision. Read it before deciding.
  • REFERENCE — consult when its specific question comes up. Do not read speculatively.
  • SKIP — does not serve this project. Recorded with the reason so it is not re-litigated.

Verified — read from the primary source on 2026-07-27

pbakaus/impeccable — REFERENCE, M1

A design-guidance system for AI coding agents: a skill exposing 23 subcommands, roughly 60 deterministic detector rules, a browser extension for live visual iteration, and support for 13-plus agent tools. Apache 2.0.

Its subject matter is irrelevant here. Sync has no frontend. Do not read it for design advice.

Its architecture is the reason it stays on the list. Deterministic detectors carry the load; the model handles what detectors cannot express; the whole thing ships as one invocable skill that many different agent tools can consume. That is the same split Sync adopted from Open Code Review, and it is the shape the MCP graph surface is trying to be.

The question it answers: when packaging the graph surface, how does a tool present a deterministic engine to many agent clients without becoming a chat interface?

(Star count reported by the fetch looked like a misread of the page and is not recorded.)

VectifyAI/PageIndex — SKIP for specs, STEAL-THE-IDEA at M2

MIT. Builds an LLM-generated table-of-contents tree over a document, then resolves queries by LLM tree search rather than vector similarity. PDF-oriented intake, multi-provider through LiteLLM, default gpt-4o-2024-11-20. Claims 98.7% on FinanceBench — self-reported, no named baseline, and the per-query model-call count is not disclosed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 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. 2d ago First seen · 131 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 15bfc2d84cba

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sync-external-resources is a skill published in the GitHub repository stroland02/Sync (5 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 1,671 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.