file-reading

file-reading is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Wide-Moat/open-computer-use. It costs 154 tokens per session (3,122 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A routing guide for reading uploaded files when their contents are not already available in the conversation. It selects an appropriate method based on the file type.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when an uploaded file is represented only by a path and its contents need to be read or inspected.
Why use it?
It helps determine how to inspect files such as PDFs, spreadsheets, images, archives, and ebooks instead of treating every file the same way.

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/wide-moat/open-computer-use/file-reading
Any agent
npx skills add Wide-Moat/open-computer-use --skill file-reading
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Wide-Moat/open-computer-use

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

agentmods badge for file-reading

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/wide-moat/open-computer-use/file-reading.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/wide-moat/open-computer-use/file-reading)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/wide-moat/open-computer-use/file-reading"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/wide-moat/open-computer-use/file-reading.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 154 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,122 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00154 $0.03122
Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.01561
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00624
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00312

Measured 5d ago against content hash da2c763c834c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

file-reading 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 5d 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/public/file-reading/SKILL.md · 351 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 5d ago First seen · 351 lines · 154 tokens per session scan A da2c763c834c

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file-reading is a skill published in the GitHub repository Wide-Moat/open-computer-use (118 stars, last pushed 3d ago), with no licence file. It adds 154 tokens to every session and 3,122 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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