retrieve

retrieve is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from synaptiai/agent-capability-standard. It costs 38 tokens per session (2,265 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A data-fetching tool for retrieving specific information from a named file, URL, API, database, or other identifier. It records the source and time, checks data integrity where possible, and provides citations for verification.

In plain words
What is it for?
Fetching known records, documents, or values; applying filters or version constraints; and producing evidence-backed results for later analysis.
Why use it?
It removes guesswork about where information came from and makes retrieved facts easier to check again. Missing data is reported instead of being silently ignored.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the agent-capability-standard plugin — 42 skills, 2 hooks shipped together

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/synaptiai/agent-capability-standard/retrieve
Any agent
npx skills add synaptiai/agent-capability-standard --skill retrieve
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/synaptiai/agent-capability-standard

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agent-capability-standard, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 42 skills, 2 hooks.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for retrieve

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/synaptiai/agent-capability-standard/retrieve"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/synaptiai/agent-capability-standard/retrieve.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,265 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 $0.02265
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01132
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00453
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00227

Measured 4d ago against content hash cc65b495f909, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

retrieve 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 4d 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.

skills/retrieve/SKILL.md · 333 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 333 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Intent

Execute retrieve to fetch specific, known information from specified sources. Unlike search (which explores under uncertainty), retrieve fetches identified items with full provenance tracking.

Success criteria:

  • Requested data is fetched completely
  • Source and timestamp are recorded
  • Data integrity is verified where possible
  • Citations enable re-retrieval
  • Missing data is explicitly flagged

World Modeling Context: Retrieve feeds into all world modeling layers by providing grounded observations for world-state, timestamps for temporal-reasoning, and evidence for grounding.

Compatible schemas:

  • schemas/output_schema.yaml

Inputs

Parameter Required Type Description
target Yes string|object What to retrieve (path, URL, query, or identifier)
source No string Where to retrieve from (file, api, database); default: infer
format No string Expected format (json, text, binary); default: auto-detect
constraints No object Filters, projections, version specifications

Procedure

  1. Identify target: Determine exactly what to fetch

    • File path: Exact file location
    • URL: Web resource address
    • API endpoint: Service + parameters
    • Record: Database/system identifier
  2. Verify source accessibility: Confirm retrieval is possible

    • Check permissions
    • Verify network access if remote
    • Confirm source exists
  3. Execute retrieval: Fetch the data

    • For files: Read with line numbers preserved
    • For URLs: Fetch with timeout and retry
    • For APIs: Call with appropriate auth
    • Record exact timestamp of retrieval
  4. Validate retrieved data: Check completeness and integrity

    • Verify format matches expected
    • Check for truncation or corruption
    • Validate against schema if available
    • Compute hash for integrity tracking
  5. Extract relevant portions: If constraints specified

    • Apply filters to reduce data
    • Project specific fields
    • Slice by line numbers or sections

Read the full file on GitHub · 333 lines

Files

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.

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. 4d ago First seen · 333 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A cc65b495f909

Subscribe to this mod's changes

retrieve is a skill published in the GitHub repository synaptiai/agent-capability-standard (4 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 2,265 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 2026-08-31.

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