ac-tools-dry-run

ac-tools-dry-run is a skill for Claude Code from WaterplanAI/agentic-config. It costs 47 tokens per session (883 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A dry-run wrapper that simulates a command or prompt while preventing file changes, apart from updating session status.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to safely preview workflows, implementation prompts, or other commands when you want to inspect the planned actions first.
Why use it?
It lets you preview what a task would do before allowing it to modify the project.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the agentic-config plugin — 49 skills, 1 plugin shipped together

Good fit Use it to safely preview workflows, implementation prompts, or other commands when you want to inspect the planned actions first.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/waterplanai/agentic-config/ac-tools-dry-run
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 WaterplanAI/agentic-config --skill ac-tools-dry-run
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/WaterplanAI/agentic-config

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agentic-config, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 49 skills, 1 plugin.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 883 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 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 $0.00047 $0.00883
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00441
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00177
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00088

Measured 10d ago against content hash 4bf9cf6543a4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ac-tools-dry-run scanned grade A 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 10d 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.

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

result = subprocess.run(
packages/pi-ac-tools/skills/ac-tools-dry-run/SKILL.md · 135 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dry Run

Executes any command or prompt in simulation mode, preventing file modifications except for the session status file.

Compatibility Note

This pi wrapper preserves the original dry-run workflow. Runtime enforcement comes from the package-local dry-run-guard.py registration via @agentic-config/pi-compat; if that guard is unavailable, still follow the same no-write constraints manually.

Usage

/skill:ac-tools-dry-run <any command or prompt>

Examples:

  • /skill:ac-tools-dry-run /skill:ac-workflow-spec IMPLEMENT path/to/spec.md - Preview the implementation flow without writing files
  • /skill:ac-tools-dry-run /skill:ac-workflow-mux-ospec path/to/spec.md - Preview a larger workflow without committing changes
  • /skill:ac-tools-dry-run explain why the current plan uses packaged assets - Normal chat with no file modifications

Workflow

Step 1: Initialize Session Status

Resolve the session status path using the same priority as the dry-run hook:

  1. prefer CLAUDE_SESSION_ID when it is available
  2. otherwise fall back to compat PID tracing
  3. use the shared path only as a legacy last resort
SESSION_ID="${CLAUDE_SESSION_ID:-}"
if [ -z "$SESSION_ID" ]; then
  SESSION_ID=$(python3 - <<'PY'
import os
import subprocess

pid = os.getpid()
for _ in range(10):
    result = subprocess.run(
        ["ps", "-o", "pid=,ppid=,comm=", "-p", str(pid)],
        capture_output=True,
        text=True,
        check=False,
    )
    line = result.stdout.strip()
    if not line:
        break

    parts = line.split()
    if len(parts) >= 3:
        current_pid, ppid, comm = int(parts[0]), int(parts[1]), parts[2]
        if "claude" in comm.lower():
            print(current_pid)
            break
        pid = ppid
    else:
        break
else:
    print("shared")
PY
)
fi

[ -n "$SESSION_ID" ] || SESSION_ID="shared"
STATUS_DIR="outputs/session/${SESSION_ID}"
STATUS_FILE="${STATUS_DIR}/status.yml"
mkdir -p "$STATUS_DIR"

If ${STATUS_FILE} does not exist, create it with:

Read the full file on GitHub · 135 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. 10d ago First seen · 135 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 4bf9cf6543a4

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ac-tools-dry-run is a skill published in the GitHub repository WaterplanAI/agentic-config (30 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 883 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.