request-access

request-access is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yc-software/qm. It costs 53 tokens per session (395 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for asking a credential owner to approve access to a stored keychain credential. The owner receives an approval card in the current conversation, and the blocked command can then run again.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a required credential has no grant, specifying the credential and the single command purpose; request one-time access when appropriate.
Why use it?
It provides a clear approval step when a command needs credentials that this conversation has not been granted.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it when a required credential has no grant, specifying the credential and the single command purpose; request one-time access when appropriate.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yc-software/qm/request-access
About the project

QM is a shared work environment for coding agents that gives each employee and conversation an isolated workspace while allowing collaboration in Slack and on the web. Startups use it to run agents for individuals, teams, and company operations, with selectable harnesses and models. The catalogue entries extend QM with skills, instructions, and settings.

yc-software/qm · 15,434 stars · on GitHub · x.com

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 yc-software/qm --skill request-access
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yc-software/qm

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 395 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 $0.00053 $0.00395
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00158
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00079
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00040

Measured 3d ago against content hash 4421de6e09d7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

request-access 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 3d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -fsS -X POST "$AGENT_API_URL/v1/keychain/asks" \
skills-seed/request-access/SKILL.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

Request access to someone's credential

Use this when the keychain manifest lists a credential you need but shows no grant for this conversation. Your own credentials in your own personal conversation never need this.

Request

One call, from this session or any sub-agent. The approval belongs to the whole conversation, so every session in it sees the same grant.

curl -fsS -X POST "$AGENT_API_URL/v1/keychain/asks" \
  -H "x-agent-capability: $AGENT_API_TOKEN" -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"credential":"<credential id>","purpose":"<what the command will do>"}'
  • purpose is one plain sentence about the command, not the whole task.
  • If a request for that credential is already pending, the same one comes back. Don't ask twice.

Where the card shows up

You don't choose. The card appears where this conversation is: the Slack thread or channel, inline in the web session (and in its parent when you are a sub-agent), or the scheduled job's destination. Only the credential's owner can click it; nothing said in chat is approval.

Then

  • Tell the person in one short line that you asked the owner for access. No request ids, no request text, no "paused".
  • Stop. Don't retry, poll, or work around the missing credential.
  • When the owner approves, this conversation re-runs the blocked command on its own. Continue with one short line.
  • If they deny or it expires, say so in one line and offer another way.
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. 3d ago Changed · -1 lines 4421de6e09d7
  2. 17d ago First seen · 38 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 0395b5c1b626

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request-access is a skill published in the GitHub repository yc-software/qm (15,434 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 395 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-30.