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.
npx skills add The-Artificer-of-Ciphers-LLC/skills-from-the-artificer --skill gsd-core-hooksgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/The-Artificer-of-Ciphers-LLC/skills-from-the-artificerWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/gsd-core-hooks)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/gsd-core-hooks"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/gsd-core-hooks/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/gsd-core-hooks"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/gsd-core-hooks.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00213 | $0.01092 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00106 | $0.00546 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00043 | $0.00218 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00021 | $0.00109 |
Grade A, and why
gsd-core-hooks 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
gsd-core-hooks
A rule an agent can read once and forget is not enforced — it's remembered, which is a different thing.
What this is
The .claude/hooks/ directory from one real project (gsd-core), lifted wholesale. Every file here
exists because a specific incident happened first and the hook was written afterward to close the
gap — the header comment on each script names the incident, the date, and the exact failure mode.
This is not a designed-in-advance framework; it is a project's actual scar tissue, in installable
form.
It backs the rules stated in ../commands/ (bug-fixer.md, feature-builder.md,
triage-review.md, test.md) — those files say things like "gsd-test MUST exit 0 before any git
push" and "NEVER run node --test locally"; the hooks in this folder are what make those true
regardless of whether the agent remembers reading them.
The three failure classes it guards against
- Self-attestation. "I ran the tests" / "the review passed" is cheap to claim and expensive to
check by hand.
pre-pr-gate.sh+record-gsd-verdict.shbind a push/PR action to a machine-read verdict line for the exact commit sha being shipped — not "tests passed at some point," but "tests passed for this sha, recorded by the one sanctioned writer, checked at the moment of push." - Prose that goes stale mid-session. A directive is read once, at the start, then hours of
tool calls go by with nothing re-presenting it.
gsd-phase-gate.cjsis the original, project-specific incident behind this project's separately-shipped../artifact-gates/engine — see the note in this folder'sREADME.mdbefore installing both. - Harness ceiling false-negatives. A backgrounded or foregrounded long-running dispatch dies at
the tool harness's own timeout (commonly 600000ms) with no distinguishing signal from a real
failure — and a
pgrep -f "<cmd>"waiter can match its own argv and spin forever even after the watched job finished.gsd-async-poll-guard.sh,gsd-foreground-poll-guard.sh,gsd-pgrep-waiter-guard.sh,gsd-bench-pin-guard.sh, andgsd-test-single-flight-guard.sheach close one verified instance of this.
What ships with it
17 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.
- hooks/block-local-node-test.sh 5.7 KB runs code
- hooks/emitted-cjs-read-guard.cjs 6.7 KB runs code
- hooks/gsd-async-poll-guard.sh 7.1 KB runs code
- hooks/gsd-bench-pin-guard.sh 6.5 KB runs code
- hooks/gsd-foreground-poll-guard.sh 7.5 KB runs code
- hooks/gsd-pgrep-waiter-guard.sh 6.6 KB runs code
- hooks/gsd-phase-gate.cjs 41 KB runs code
- hooks/gsd-test-clean-tree-guard.sh 11 KB runs code
- hooks/gsd-test-single-flight-guard.sh 9.7 KB runs code
- hooks/gsd-verify-and-record.cjs 15 KB runs code
- hooks/lib/prune-gsd-passes.cjs 5.5 KB runs code
- hooks/memtrace-first-guard.cjs 11 KB runs code
- hooks/memtrace-first-guard.test.sh 4.4 KB runs code
- hooks/pre-pr-gate.sh 14 KB runs code
- hooks/record-gsd-verdict.sh 5.0 KB runs code
- hooks/require-memtrace-evidence.sh 3.9 KB runs code
- README.md 9.1 KB
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.
- 8d ago First seen · 61 lines · 213 tokens per session scan A 215ce60f19ff
gsd-core-hooks is a skill published in the GitHub repository The-Artificer-of-Ciphers-LLC/skills-from-the-artificer (4 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 213 tokens to every session and 1,092 once invoked, about $0.0011 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 2026-09-04.
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