transfer

A transfer endpoint for restoring an agent-exec backup payload on another machine. It accepts a POST request and can validate the payload without writing files when dry-run mode is enabled.

In plain words
What is it for?
Sending a backup to a destination agent-exec service, checking it with dry-run mode, and restoring it after confirmation.
Why use it?
It provides a controlled way to move saved agent data, while requiring explicit administrator enablement and confirmation before a real restore.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/to-agent/agent-exec/transfer
Any agent
npx skills add to-agent/agent-exec --skill transfer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/to-agent/agent-exec

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 168 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 $0.00000 $0.00168
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00084
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00034
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00017

Measured yesterday against content hash cc96a30cb311, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

transfer 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 yesterday.

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.

content/cli/transfer/SKILL.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

SKILL: cli.transfer

Endpoint: POST /cli/transfer

Description: Receive an ae transfer payload

Overview

This endpoint is used by ae transfer to restore a backup payload on a destination agent-exec machine.

It is disabled by default. The destination administrator must explicitly enable remote transfer before this endpoint accepts restore requests.

Request

POST /cli/transfer
X-API-Key: <API_KEY>
Content-Type: application/json

Behavior

  • dryRun: true validates the payload without writing files.
  • confirmed restore requires confirm: true.
  • secrets and restored categories are controlled by the transfer payload.

Prefer the CLI:

ae transfer --to host:3333 --apiKey <API_KEY> --dry-run
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. yesterday First seen · 32 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A cc96a30cb311

Subscribe to this mod's changes

transfer is a skill published in the GitHub repository to-agent/agent-exec (1 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 168 tokens. 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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