STAR: Skill for Codex

.agents/skills/star-proj-adopt/SKILL.md

star-proj-adopt is a skill for Codex from wanghao9610/STAR. It costs 57 tokens per session (2,905 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for bringing an existing or unfinished research project into STAR, a structured system for organizing research work. It first surveys the repository and records how its code, data, models, outputs, and history fit the system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect a research repository, identify its entry points and files, map it to STAR conventions, and prepare it for the rest of the research workflow.
Why use it?
It helps organize a project that was not originally created from the STAR template while keeping the existing project intact.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is wanghao9610/STAR's own configuration. It tells Codex how to work on STAR 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 STAR configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to wanghao9610/STAR. 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/wanghao9610/STAR/main/.agents/skills/star-proj-adopt/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wanghao9610/STAR

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,905 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Anti-Refusal · line 21
    Skill instructs the agent to omit warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Stripping safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.
    Fix: Remove instructions that suppress warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Let the agent surface safety-relevant caveats to the user.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 19
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00057 $0.02905
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01452
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00581
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00291

Measured 4d ago against content hash ca97aaefed54, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

star-proj-adopt 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 4d 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.

.agents/skills/star-proj-adopt/SKILL.md · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Project Adopt — bring an in-progress project into STAR

Invocation: star-proj-adopt [survey | backfill] [DESCRIPTION]. Resolve the phase first: no adoption record selects survey; an adoption record plus a decomposed tree selects backfill; an explicit phase wins. Re-running survey updates the record. Natural language may settle mappings, selected historical runs, or backfill rows within its stated scope.

Shared conventions. Resolve the invocation target and mode first. Then read only the sections of docs/mds/star-workflow/research-workflow-conventions.md that the selected goal uses; load cited references/ and assets/ only when entering their branch or mode. Read .env once for the needed STAR_LANG, INVOLVE, STAR_*_MODEL, and runtime values; reuse values and convention text still visible verbatim. Resolve language under conventions §7.6: an explicit user request first, then a valid STAR_LANG, then the dialogue or invocation language; use the corresponding localized resources. SKILL_zh.md is for human readers and is never loaded at runtime. Preserve an existing document's frontmatter language. Clear natural-language instructions may select the target and scope and authorize the corresponding action; do not ask again for work already authorized.

Passing a tier model. Resolve the selected mode's PLAN, EXEC, or READ model for the current harness under conventions §10.8. Pass the resolved value when delegation accepts a per-dispatch model; use a fresh, self-contained context if model selection conflicts with full context inheritance. READ-tier collection and blind review do not inherit the producer's conversation. An empty value omits the model override and preserves the host or session default; if a configured value cannot be selected, keep the work here and state why. Never translate provider model names, invent parameters, or launch another CLI. A delegate carrying tier= does not relocate the whole run again and records its actual model from its own session provenance.

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 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. 4d ago Changed · -25 lines · -151 tokens per session ca97aaefed54
  2. 11d ago First seen · 117 lines · 208 tokens per session scan A 2b74c7a758ff

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star-proj-adopt is a skill published in the GitHub repository wanghao9610/STAR (52 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 2,905 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 2026-08-30.

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