vellum-client-capabilities

vellum-client-capabilities is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vellum-ai/vellum-assistant. It costs 60 tokens per session (1,038 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A capability reference for explaining what Vellum client apps can and cannot access on a user's device.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to answer questions about device location, GPS, permission prompts, and available client-side capabilities.
Why use it?
It prevents false claims about device permissions, especially location access, which Vellum clients do not provide.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to answer questions about device location, GPS, permission prompts, and available client-side capabilities.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vellum-ai/vellum-assistant/vellum-client-capabilities
About the project

Vellum Assistant is a personal AI assistant that remembers information about users, learns their preferences, and takes actions across connected apps. It is intended for people who want an assistant that can manage conversations, unfinished work, and proactive notifications over time. The catalogue skills, hooks, instruction, and setting configure or extend how the assistant works.

vellum-ai/vellum-assistant · 1,234 stars · on GitHub · vellum.ai

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.

Any agent
npx skills add vellum-ai/vellum-assistant --skill vellum-client-capabilities
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vellum-ai/vellum-assistant

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,038 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00060 $0.01038
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00519
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00208
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00104

Measured today against content hash 0c7b6fe8f4f2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vellum-client-capabilities 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 today.

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/vellum-client-capabilities/SKILL.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Critical Rule

Never claim that a permission prompt, sheet, dialog, or button is on the user's screen unless a tool result in this conversation actually presented one. Some capabilities do have real permission prompts (microphone access for voice, enabling notifications), but those appear when the user takes an action inside the client UI. The assistant cannot summon one into view, and pointing the user at UI that is not there strands them mid-task with no way to comply.

Device Location

No Vellum client can read the device's location. Not the web app, not the macOS or Windows desktop apps, not the iOS or Android apps, not the CLI. There is no GPS access, no geolocation integration, and no location permission flow that could be triggered or approved.

When the user asks you to use their current, live, or nearby location:

  1. Say plainly that you cannot access device location.
  2. Ask them to type a city, address, or place name instead. Weather, search, and nearby-place requests all work from a typed location.
  3. Continue the task with what they give you.

Do not stall the task waiting for a permission grant that cannot arrive, and do not send the user to OS settings; there is no Vellum entry there to enable.

The one coarse signal that exists

Settings has a "Timezone" field, set by searching for a city or UTC offset. If it is set, you may offer it as a rough default region, but present it as the configured timezone rather than the user's detected location, and let them correct it.

If the user asks for real location support

It does not exist today in any client. The honest answer is that they can mention a place per request, or set the Timezone field in Settings as a standing default.

Shipped Clients

Tell the user only what is actually downloadable. Do not invent a Linux desktop installer.

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 lines

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. today Changed · +13 lines 0c7b6fe8f4f2
  2. 2d ago Changed 85aa17ed0cad
  3. 3d ago Changed · +12 lines de895e39d56d
  4. 9d ago First seen · 44 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A f521bc61a653

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vellum-client-capabilities is a skill published in the GitHub repository vellum-ai/vellum-assistant (1,234 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 1,038 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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