An installer for the Varie Claude Avatar desktop app, which runs as a background service, or daemon. It checks whether the app is already installed, installs it, launches it, and verifies that it started.

Use it to install and start Varie Claude Avatar on macOS and confirm that its local communication socket is available.

It provides a defined setup and verification process for the desktop app, reducing uncertainty about whether the service is installed and running.

install — Skill for Claude Code by varie-ai

Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code

/plugin marketplace add varie-ai/varie-claude-avatar

Claude Code

/plugin install varie-avatar

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install varie-avatar, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 10 hooks.

Wrote 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.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 465 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan B 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00000	$0.00465
Opus 5	$0.00000	$0.00233
Sonnet 5	$0.00000	$0.00093
Haiku 4.5	$0.00000	$0.00047

Measured 11d ago against content hash 934dfa14c745, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

install scanned grade B 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 11d 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

find ~/.claude/plugins -name "install-daemon" -path "*/varie-avatar/*" 2>/dev/null | head -1

plugin/skills/install/SKILL.md · 72 lines

What it actually says

Install Daemon

Download and install the Varie Claude Avatar desktop app (daemon).

Instructions

1. Check if Already Installed

# macOS
ls -d "/Applications/Varie Claude Avatar.app" "$HOME/Applications/Varie Claude Avatar.app" 2>/dev/null

# Check if running
test -S /tmp/varie-claude-avatar.sock && echo "RUNNING" || echo "NOT_RUNNING"

If the app is already installed and running, tell the user and stop.

2. Run the Installer

Run the install-daemon script with --verbose to show progress:

"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/install-daemon" --verbose

If CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT is not set, find the script:

find ~/.claude/plugins -name "install-daemon" -path "*/varie-avatar/*" 2>/dev/null | head -1

Then run it with --verbose.

3. Launch the App

After installation, launch the daemon:

# macOS
open -g -j "$HOME/Applications/Varie Claude Avatar.app" 2>/dev/null || \
open -g -j "/Applications/Varie Claude Avatar.app" 2>/dev/null

4. Verify

# Wait a moment for socket to appear
sleep 2
test -S /tmp/varie-claude-avatar.sock && echo "SUCCESS" || echo "NOT_STARTED"

Output Format

## Varie Claude Avatar — Install

**Status**: Installed and running / Installed (launch on next session) / Failed
**Location**: ~/Applications/Varie Claude Avatar.app
**Version**: v0.1.0

The avatar will appear automatically on your next Claude Code session.

### Quick Actions
- Check status: `/varie-avatar:status`
- Browse characters: `/varie-avatar:list`
- Switch character: `/varie-avatar:set <id>`

If installation fails, provide the manual download link: https://github.com/varie-ai/varie-claude-avatar/releases

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.

11d ago First seen · 72 lines · 0 tokens per session scan B 934dfa14c745

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install is a skill published in the GitHub repository varie-ai/varie-claude-avatar (11 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 465 tokens. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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