built-in-agent-feature-gating

built-in-agent-feature-gating is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ychampion/cskill-agents. It costs 25 tokens per session (388 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A system for deciding which built-in software agents should appear in different ways of running an application, such as a command-line tool or an SDK.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when registering built-in agents and deciding which ones are available for CLI sessions, SDK sessions, embedded runtimes, or special coordination modes.
Why use it?
It keeps the available agent list focused by hiding agents that a particular entry point, feature flag, or runtime mode does not need.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when registering built-in agents and deciding which ones are available for CLI sessions, SDK sessions, embedded runtimes, or special coordination modes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ychampion/cskill-agents/built-in-agent-feature-gating
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ychampion/cskill-agents --skill built-in-agent-feature-gating
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ychampion/cskill-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 388 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.
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 $0.00025 $0.00388
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00194
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00039

Measured 10d ago against content hash 1bc5a3e2ca6b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

built-in-agent-feature-gating 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 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.

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/claude-code/skills/built-in-agent-feature-gating/SKILL.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

SKILL: Built-In Agent Feature Gating

Domain: agent-management Trigger: Use whenever agent registration should respect CLI entrypoints, SDK toggles, or feature flags before exposing the built-in catalog. Source Pattern: Distilled from reviewed built-in agent registration and feature-flagged runtime catalog implementations.

Core Method

Check entrypoint type, environment toggles, and feature flags before adding each built-in agent to the visible registry. Different entrypoints often need different built-in surfaces: a CLI may want planning or guidance agents, while an SDK or embedded runtime may want a minimal default set. Treat special orchestration modes as their own catalog variant rather than layering them on top of the normal list. This keeps built-in agents discoverable where they belong without leaking extra helpers into every runtime surface.

Key Rules

  • Support an explicit “disable built-ins” toggle for SDK or embedded contexts that should expose a minimal surface.
  • Treat coordination or orchestration modes as a separate built-in catalog rather than mixing them into the default list.
  • Gate specialized built-ins behind feature flags or experiments instead of making them permanently visible.
  • Keep the gating logic centralized so every entrypoint evaluates the same rules consistently.

Example Application

Before populating the agent registry, apply these checks so an SDK session can expose no built-ins, a CLI can expose planning or guidance agents when enabled, and a coordinator runtime can swap in its own worker-oriented catalog.

Anti-Patterns (What NOT to do)

  • Don’t register all built-in agents unconditionally; ignoring entrypoints or env vars breaks SDK/CLI separation.
  • Avoid hardcoding agent lists per mode; fold them into feature flags and helper functions to stay configurable.
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 · 29 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 1bc5a3e2ca6b

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built-in-agent-feature-gating is a skill published in the GitHub repository ychampion/cskill-agents (36 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 388 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.