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/trysidequest-ai/sidequest/sq-updatenpx skills add trySideQuest-ai/sidequest --skill sq-updategit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/trySideQuest-ai/sidequestWhat 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 | $0.00066 | $0.00438 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00033 | $0.00219 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00013 | $0.00088 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00044 |
Grade C, and why
sq-update scanned grade C with 2 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 3d 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.
Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain
curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.
Runs `curl -fsSL https://get.trysidequest.ai/install.sh | bash` which: Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
Runs `curl -fsSL https://get.trysidequest.ai/install.sh | bash` which: What it actually says
/sidequest:sq-update
Updates SideQuest (plugin + native app) to the latest version by re-running the hosted installer.
What It Does
Runs curl -fsSL https://get.trysidequest.ai/install.sh | bash which:
- Downloads the latest native app DMG, mounts it, copies to
~/Applications/ - Downloads the latest plugin tarball, extracts to Claude plugins cache, registers in Claude config
- Preserves your existing
~/.sidequest/config.json(auth token, preferences) - Verifies installation end-to-end
Steps
1. Confirm with user
Before running, confirm intent:
"This will download and install the latest SideQuest (plugin + native app). Your login and settings will be preserved. Proceed? (yes/no)"
If user says yes, proceed. Otherwise stop.
2. Run installer
curl -fsSL https://get.trysidequest.ai/install.sh | bash
Capture exit status. Installer prints its own progress.
3. Report outcome
If exit status 0:
"✓ Update complete. Run
/sidequest:sq-statusto verify everything is working."
If non-zero:
"Update failed (exit code {N}). Run
/sidequest:sq-statusto see which component failed. You can try again by running/sidequest:sq-update."
Error Handling
- If user declines, stop immediately — do not run installer
- If installer fails mid-run, do not attempt partial recovery — let user re-run after diagnosis
- If network unavailable, installer will fail fast with curl exit code
- Never modify
~/.sidequest/config.jsonmanually — the installer preserves it by design
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.
- 3d ago First seen · 53 lines · 66 tokens per session scan C e12579ed69c0
sq-update is a skill published in the GitHub repository trySideQuest-ai/sidequest (8 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 438 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.
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