keystone-index

keystone-index is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tacoda/keystone. It costs 20 tokens per session (349 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that regenerates the .keystone/INDEX.json file, an index describing the project’s available charter primitives. It runs the Keystone command-line tool and reports the primitive count.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after editing files under .charter, after a Keystone migration, or whenever the index may be stale; it can also help identify missing commands or malformed frontmatter.
Why use it?
It keeps the agent’s session-start index aligned with the charter files on disk after those files change.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it after editing files under .charter, after a Keystone migration, or whenever the index may be stale; it can also help identify missing commands or malformed frontmatter.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tacoda/keystone/keystone-index
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add tacoda/keystone --skill keystone-index
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tacoda/keystone

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 349 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00020 $0.00349
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00175
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00070
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00035

Measured 8d ago against content hash a16d01117c0f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

keystone-index 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 8d 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.

.charter/skills/keystone-index/SKILL.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

keystone:index — refresh the primitive descriptor index

The agent's session-start path is "read .keystone/INDEX.json, then open primitive bodies on demand." When canonical charter files change, the index goes stale and the agent's view of what is available diverges from what is on disk.

This skill regenerates the index by invoking the keystone CLI.

Run

From the project root:

keystone index

The command writes .keystone/INDEX.json and prints the primitive count. Idempotent — safe to run repeatedly.

When to trigger

  • After authoring or editing any file under .charter/.
  • After running keystone migrate (the migrator regenerates the index automatically, but a re-run is cheap if drift is suspected).
  • Before reading .keystone/INDEX.json later in the same session if any primitive file has changed since session start.

Failure modes

  • "keystone: command not found" — the binary is not on PATH. Confirm with which keystone.
  • "parse frontmatter: ..." on stderr — a primitive file has malformed YAML frontmatter; the indexer reports the path. Fix the file and re-run.
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. 8d ago First seen · 52 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A a16d01117c0f

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keystone-index is a skill published in the GitHub repository tacoda/keystone (44 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 349 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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