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 agentmods add skills/tkellogg/open-strix/skill-acquisitionnpx skills add tkellogg/open-strix --skill skill-acquisitiongit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tkellogg/open-strixWrote 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/tkellogg/open-strix/skill-acquisition)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tkellogg/open-strix/skill-acquisition"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tkellogg/open-strix/skill-acquisition.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" 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 | $0.00057 | $0.01538 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00028 | $0.00769 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00011 | $0.00308 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00154 |
Grade C, and why
skill-acquisition scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 5d 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.
Recursive force deletehighDestructive command
rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.
rm -rf /tmp/skill-source How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 199 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Skill Acquisition
You help users discover and install agent skills from the ecosystem. There are three main sources:
- ClawHub — Public skill registry (clawhub.ai) with vector search, versioning, and moderation
- Skillflag — CLI tools that bundle their own skills via
--skill list/export - GitHub/Raw — Skills as folders in git repos (SKILL.md + supporting files)
When to Use This Skill
USE when:
- User asks to find/discover/search for skills or capabilities
- User wants to install a skill from ClawHub or a CLI tool
- User asks "is there a skill for X?"
- User wants to package/publish a local skill
- User asks about what skills are available
DON'T USE when:
- User wants to CREATE a new skill from scratch (that's skill-creator)
- User wants to modify an existing installed skill (just edit it)
Prerequisites
Both tools run via npx — no global install needed, just npm:
# ClawHub CLI (primary discovery tool)
npx clawhub --help
# Skillflag installer (for CLI-bundled skills)
npx skillflag --help
Discovery — Finding Skills
1. ClawHub Search (best for general discovery)
ClawHub uses vector search (OpenAI embeddings), so natural language queries work:
# Search by description
npx clawhub search "manage docker containers"
npx clawhub search "git workflow automation"
# Browse latest/trending
npx clawhub explore # newest 25
npx clawhub explore --sort trending # trending now
npx clawhub explore --sort downloads # most popular
# Machine-readable output
npx clawhub explore --json
npx clawhub search "kubernetes" --json
2. Skillflag Discovery (for CLI tools you already have)
Any skillflag-compliant CLI tool bundles its own skills:
# List skills a tool provides
<tool> --skill list
# See what a skill contains
<tool> --skill show <id>
# JSON metadata (includes digest for integrity)
<tool> --skill list --json
Known skillflag-compliant tools:
acpx— ACP coding agent delegation- Check any CLI you install:
<tool> --skill list(won't break if unsupported)
What ships with it
2 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.
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.
- 5d ago First seen · 199 lines · 57 tokens per session scan C 1bd3c75d7a3a
skill-acquisition is a skill published in the GitHub repository tkellogg/open-strix (85 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,538 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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