check-prereqs

check-prereqs is a skill for Claude Code from thettwe/nyann. It costs 149 tokens per session (506 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only check of the computer for the tools nyann needs, separating required tools from optional ones that enable specific features.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it on a new machine or before setup to check prerequisites, get install hints, or produce machine-readable results for scripts.
Why use it?
It shows whether nyann can run and what is missing without installing packages or changing files.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the nyann plugin — 41 skills, 41 commands, 3 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/thettwe/nyann/check-prereqs
Any agent
npx skills add thettwe/nyann --skill check-prereqs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thettwe/nyann

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install nyann, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 41 skills, 41 commands, 3 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 149 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 506 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 5.1 $0.00149 $0.00506
Opus 5 $0.00075 $0.00253
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00101
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00051

Measured 6d ago against content hash fe0c21909807, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

check-prereqs 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 6d 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/check-prereqs/SKILL.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

check-prereqs

Read-only environment survey. Never installs anything; never mutates the filesystem. Flow:

  1. Run bin/check-prereqs.sh. Default output is a human-readable table showing every prereq nyann touches, classified as hard (nyann exits 1 without it) or soft (feature-gated skip).
  2. If the user passes the word json / "machine-readable" / similar, add --json so output is structured for scripting.
  3. Exit code from the script is the signal:
    • 0 → all hard prereqs present. Soft misses are informational.
    • 1 → at least one hard prereq is missing. Tell the user explicitly that nyann cannot run yet, and point them at the install hint from the table.

What to do after

  • Soft misses aren't blockers, but each gates a specific feature. Offer to explain which feature needs which tool. Don't install anything on the user's behalf — just read the hint column back and let them decide.
  • If the user asks "install these for me", decline politely — nyann doesn't bulk-install system packages. Direct them to the copy-pasteable install lines in the hint column.

When to hand off

  • User asks "OK, now bootstrap this repo" → route to the bootstrap-project skill.
  • User asks "what does do in nyann?" → explain the feature(s) it gates (README has a table per soft dep).
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. 6d ago First seen · 46 lines · 149 tokens per session scan A fe0c21909807

Subscribe to this mod's changes

check-prereqs is a skill published in the GitHub repository thettwe/nyann (6 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 149 tokens to every session and 506 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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