vs-alias-mapping

A small instruction skill that maps the name “Search CLI” or “searchcli” to the installed `vs` command-line program.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a user asks to run Search CLI commands, so the request is translated to the correct binary.
Why use it?
It prevents an agent from trying to run a command name that is not the actual executable in the customer environment.

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/volcengine/searchcli/vs-alias-mapping
Any agent
npx skills add volcengine/SearchCLI --skill vs-alias-mapping
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/volcengine/SearchCLI

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 663 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 $0.00036 $0.00663
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00331
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00133
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00066

Measured 2d ago against content hash aab0b258bc91, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vs-alias-mapping 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/vs-alias-mapping/SKILL.md · 56 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 56 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Search CLI Alias Mapping

When to Use

Invoke this skill when the user refers to the CLI tool as "Search CLI" or "search_cli", to ensure the correct underlying binary (vs) is executed.

Preconditions

  • The agent is about to execute a CLI command based on the user's "Search CLI" intent.

Commands

  • No specific commands are required; this is a conceptual mapping.

Workflow

  • Intercept the intent to run search_cli.
  • Translate the intent to use the vs binary (or its absolute path).
  • Execute the mapped command.

Customer Environment Principle

  • In customer environments, assume repository source code is unavailable.
  • Execute tasks using only the installed skills, the packaged vs CLI surface (--help, command output, and observed runtime behavior), and explicit user-provided information.
  • Do not rely on reading local repository source files, generated repo snapshots, or implementation details to decide runtime actions.
  • If the installed CLI behavior conflicts with a skill, trust the installed CLI behavior first.
  • If the skills and the packaged CLI still do not provide enough information to proceed safely, stop and ask the user instead of searching source code.

Constraints

  • Before executing any mapped concrete vs ... command, first consult vs-product-qa to verify the current command surface, required flags, payload fields, input format, and allowed values. Only after that check may you finalize parameters and run the command.
  • Never execute a command literally named search_cli.
  • Always use the vs prefix and VIKING_ environment variables.
  • If alias resolution or mapped CLI execution fails and the user asks a product concept, capability, API field, console UI path, purchase, billing, or general troubleshooting question outside alias mapping, temporarily hand off to vs-product-qa; return to this workflow only after the grounded product answer is complete.

Read the full file on GitHub · 56 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. 2d ago First seen · 56 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A aab0b258bc91

Subscribe to this mod's changes

vs-alias-mapping is a skill published in the GitHub repository volcengine/SearchCLI (1,176 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 663 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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