kendex: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/mailbox/SKILL.md

mailbox is a skill for Claude Code from vanillagreencom/kendex. It costs 17 tokens per session (324 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A repository mailbox tool for sending, reading, and resolving messages and questions between repository owners and other workers. It uses command-line scripts and requires Bash, jq, and Python.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to send or read mailbox messages, resolve owner questions, and handle repository notices when the required companion tools are installed.
Why use it?
It gives repository work a defined way to exchange notices and owner questions instead of relying on ad hoc files or chat.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is vanillagreencom/kendex's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on kendex itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything kendex configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to vanillagreencom/kendex. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vanillagreencom/kendex/main/.agents/skills/mailbox/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vanillagreencom/kendex

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 324 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00017 $0.00324
Opus 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00130
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00065
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00032

Measured 16d ago against content hash 7f838590d0bd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

mailbox 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 16d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 5 executable files (scripts/lib/common-root.sh, scripts/lib/file-lock.sh, scripts/lib/kendex-env.sh, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

<!-- kendex:project-instructions:start -->
.agents/skills/mailbox/SKILL.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

Project Instructions

Problems with a kendex-owned skill go through kendex report; check ownership in the file first.

Mailbox

Use scripts/lane-mail to send, read and resolve repository messages. Its --help defines verbs, envelopes, receipts and refusal keys.

Owner questions and notices work with mailbox installed alone. A directive to an overseer needs the reader that orch records. Lane sends, hosted mail, compaction and notice attachments need orch installed beside mailbox. These operations refuse before writing when their required helper is absent. Worktree lookup and owner-question tracker updates use their optional sibling skills when installed.

System dependencies: Bash 3.2, jq and Python 3.8 or later. All mailbox writers use scripts/lib/file-lock.sh and scripts/lib/mailbox-append.sh.

Files

What ships with it

7 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.

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. 16d ago First seen · 32 lines · 17 tokens per session scan C 7f838590d0bd

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mailbox is a skill published in the GitHub repository vanillagreencom/kendex (87 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 324 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-13.

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