agent-librarian

A repository-understanding skill that asks a helper agent to inspect code outside the current workspace, such as a dependency or remote GitHub repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to study external architecture, locate a feature in a dependency, compare implementation patterns, or inspect remote files, issues, commits, or pull requests.
Why use it?
It helps explain unfamiliar external code without confusing it with the local project or requiring you to read the entire repository yourself.

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/vaayne/agent-kit/agent-librarian
Any agent
npx skills add vaayne/agent-kit --skill agent-librarian
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vaayne/agent-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 314 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 $0.00103 $0.00314
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00157
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00063
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00031

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6fca6aeb1555, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-librarian 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 2d 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/agent-librarian/SKILL.md · 26 lines

What it actually says

Agent Librarian

Spawn a subagent to read and explain external repositories. Give it access hints: gh CLI for issues/PRs/files, or a shallow git clone --depth 1 into a temp dir for whole-repo reading.

When not to use

  • Local workspace code you can fully read — use direct tools or agent-finder.
  • A simple lookup answerable by fetching one URL or one gh command yourself.
  • Code modifications — this role is read-only understanding.

How to write the task

  • Name the repository or project when you know it; include the ref/version if it matters (a vendored copy is not the source of truth for the layer you describe).
  • Ask a specific question or describe the feature/codepath to understand, plus what you are trying to achieve with the answer.
  • Ask for a thorough answer with file paths and evidence, suitable for reuse — return it in full rather than re-summarizing.
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. 2d ago First seen · 26 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A 6fca6aeb1555

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agent-librarian is a skill published in the GitHub repository vaayne/agent-kit (53 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 314 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.