state

state is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from synaptiai/agent-capability-standard. It costs 31 tokens per session (1,881 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A structured snapshot of the current state of a system or area of interest. It records entities, their relationships, properties, evidence, and uncertainty.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to model systems, map entities and relationships, document current conditions, and establish a starting point for tracking change.
Why use it?
It creates a clear baseline that can be queried and compared over time instead of relying on informal descriptions.

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/state
Any agent
npx skills add synaptiai/agent-capability-standard --skill state
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 state

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/synaptiai/agent-capability-standard/state.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/synaptiai/agent-capability-standard/state)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/synaptiai/agent-capability-standard/state"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/synaptiai/agent-capability-standard/state.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,881 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 $0.00031 $0.01881
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00941
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00376
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00188

Measured 4d ago against content hash 431b51a39728, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

state 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/state/SKILL.md · 273 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 273 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Intent

Create a structured representation of the current state of a domain, system, or entity. This is the foundation for world modeling, enabling tracking of entities, relationships, and properties over time.

Success criteria:

  • State captured in structured, queryable format
  • Entities and relationships clearly identified
  • Uncertainty and confidence explicitly represented
  • Evidence anchors for all state assertions

Compatible schemas:

  • schemas/output_schema.yaml
  • reference/world_state_schema.yaml

Inputs

Parameter Required Type Description
scope Yes string What domain/system to model (e.g., "user authentication", "payment processing")
schema No object State schema defining expected structure
timestamp No string Point in time for state (default: now)
depth No string Modeling depth: surface, detailed, comprehensive

Procedure

  1. Define scope boundaries: Clarify what is included in the state model

    • Identify system or domain boundaries
    • Determine entity types to include
    • Establish relationship types to capture
  2. Identify entities: Enumerate entities within scope

    • Extract entity references from sources
    • Assign unique identifiers
    • Capture entity properties/attributes
  3. Map relationships: Document connections between entities

    • Identify relationship types (contains, depends_on, references)
    • Note relationship directionality
    • Capture relationship properties
  4. Capture current values: Record current state of each entity

    • Document property values with evidence
    • Note uncertainty where values are unclear
    • Record observation timestamp
  5. Apply schema: Structure state according to schema if provided

    • Validate against schema constraints
    • Note schema violations or extensions needed
    • Ensure required fields are populated
  6. Ground state claims: Attach evidence to all assertions

    • Reference source files, commands, or observations
    • Note confidence level for each assertion

Read the full file on GitHub · 273 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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 · 273 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 431b51a39728

Subscribe to this mod's changes

state is a skill published in the GitHub repository synaptiai/agent-capability-standard (4 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 1,881 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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