kb-crypto-vara-dubai-sboghossian

kb-crypto-vara-dubai-sboghossian is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ThomasMoreAI/legal-skills-open. It costs 118 tokens per session (2,541 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A reference guide to Dubai’s rules for virtual assets, such as cryptocurrencies and tokens. It explains the Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA), which regulates these activities in Dubai outside DIFC.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research licensing for exchanges, brokers, custodians, advisers, lenders, payment providers, token issuers, and other virtual-asset businesses in Dubai.
Why use it?
It helps businesses understand which virtual-asset activities require approval and which regulator’s rules apply.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to research licensing for exchanges, brokers, custodians, advisers, lenders, payment providers, token issuers, and other virtual-asset businesses in Dubai.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thomasmoreai/legal-skills-open/kb-crypto-vara-dubai-sboghossian
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.

Any agent
npx skills add ThomasMoreAI/legal-skills-open --skill kb-crypto-vara-dubai-sboghossian
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ThomasMoreAI/legal-skills-open

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 118 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,541 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 $0.00118 $0.02541
Opus 5.5 $0.00047 $0.01016
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00508
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00254

Measured 7d ago against content hash c0231d5d281e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kb-crypto-vara-dubai-sboghossian 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 7d 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.

ae/finance/skills/kb-crypto-vara-dubai-sboghossian/SKILL.md · 272 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 272 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Knowledge Pack — VARA (Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority)

Scope

This pack covers VARA — the Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority — the world's first dedicated regulator for virtual assets, established under Dubai Law 4/2022. VARA's rules took effect in February 2023. This pack covers:

  • VARA's establishment and jurisdiction
  • Virtual asset service categories
  • License tiers and capital requirements
  • The VARA Rulebook suite
  • Marketing rules
  • AML/CFT obligations
  • Stablecoin regulation
  • Tokenization and NFTs
  • VARA enforcement record
  • Comparison with ADGM FSRA

VARA — establishment and jurisdiction

Legal basis

Dubai Law 4/2022 established VARA as an independent regulatory authority in Dubai. VARA is distinct from the UAE federal regulator (CBUAE) and from DIFC's DFSA.

Geographic scope

VARA regulates virtual asset activities conducted:

  • In Dubai (mainland and free zones) except DIFC
  • DIFC remains under DFSA's separate virtual asset framework

What VARA regulates

"Virtual Asset" under Dubai Law 4/2022 means a digital representation of value that can be digitally traded or transferred and can be used for payment or investment purposes. NFTs with certain investment characteristics may be captured.


Activities requiring a VARA license

Activity Description
Advisory Services Providing advice on VA investing, VA structures
Broker-Dealer Services Acting as intermediary to buy/sell VAs for clients
Custody Services Safekeeping and managing VAs for clients
Exchange Services Operating a VA exchange (spot and/or derivatives)
Lending and Borrowing Providing VA lending products; borrowing using VA as collateral
Payments and Remittances Using VAs for payments; VA-based remittance
Management and Investment Discretionary VA portfolio management
Issuance Services Issuing new VAs (ICOs, IDOs, IEOs); token generation events

Read the full file on GitHub · 272 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 7d ago First seen · 272 lines · 118 tokens per session scan A c0231d5d281e

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kb-crypto-vara-dubai-sboghossian is a skill published in the GitHub repository ThomasMoreAI/legal-skills-open (88 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 118 tokens to every session and 2,541 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-09.

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