keystone-new-action

keystone-new-action is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tacoda/keystone. It costs 17 tokens per session (400 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that creates a starter file for one lifecycle action, meaning one small unit of project work. Actions are stored under .charter/actions and can be used by workflows, other actions, or users.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define a custom development step with entry conditions, activities, exit conditions, and dependencies.
Why use it?
It gives a new action the project’s expected structure, including what must be true before and after it runs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to define a custom development step with entry conditions, activities, exit conditions, and dependencies.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tacoda/keystone/keystone-new-action
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 400 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 $0.00017 $0.00400
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00200
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00080
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00040

Measured 9d ago against content hash 4a6a72a773b8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

keystone-new-action 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 9d 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-new-action/SKILL.md · 61 lines

What it actually says

keystone:new-action — scaffold an action

An action is one atomic unit of lifecycle work, invoked by name (by a playbook, another action, the menu file, or the user). Default actions ship with every install: spec, orient, verify, review, learn, audit, bootstrap, mode, synthesize, check-drift. Custom actions for project-specific lifecycle phases live alongside.

Actions live at .charter/actions/<name>.md (flat, no topic directory — actions are global by name across the cascade).

Run

keystone new action <name>

Example:

keystone new action release-notes
# writes .charter/actions/release-notes.md

After scaffolding

  1. Fill in ## Entry condition — what must be true before this action runs.
  2. Fill in ## Activities — a numbered list of verb + artifact steps.
  3. Fill in ## Exit condition — what must be true when the action completes.
  4. List dependent sensors / subagents / corpus in the deps: frontmatter so the indexer can build the graph.
  5. Run keystone index to refresh the descriptor surface.

Full port contract: docs/ports/action.md.

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. 9d ago First seen · 61 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 4a6a72a773b8

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keystone-new-action is a skill published in the GitHub repository tacoda/keystone (44 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 400 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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