idempotent-tool-result-persistence

idempotent-tool-result-persistence is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ychampion/cskill-agents. It costs 30 tokens per session (420 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for saving large tool outputs once and returning a short preview with a reference to the saved file. Repeated attempts reuse the existing saved result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Persisting oversized tool results safely and making their full contents available without sending them all in the conversation.
Why use it?
Long outputs can exceed response limits, while duplicate writes can waste storage or overwrite data during retries.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Persisting oversized tool results safely and making their full contents available without sending them all in the conversation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ychampion/cskill-agents/idempotent-tool-result-persistence
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 ychampion/cskill-agents --skill idempotent-tool-result-persistence
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ychampion/cskill-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 420 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 $0.00030 $0.00420
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00210
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00084
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00042

Measured 7d ago against content hash ded22ded75f8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

idempotent-tool-result-persistence 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 7d 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/idempotent-tool-result-persistence/SKILL.md · 28 lines

What it actually says

SKILL: Idempotent Tool Result Persistence

Domain: persistence
Trigger: Use this when tool result blocks exceed their configured thresholds and you want to persist them once while still returning a preview.
Source Pattern: Distilled from reviewed tool execution, streaming, persistence, and output-budget implementations.

Core Method

Persist oversized tool outputs to a deterministic artifact path derived from the tool call ID and content type. Create that artifact with exclusive-write semantics so retries and concurrent writers cannot clobber or duplicate the same payload. After the first successful write, return a compact preview plus metadata pointing at the persisted artifact; later retries should reuse the existing file and regenerate the same preview without rewriting the payload. This keeps large outputs accessible while making persistence safe and repeatable.

Key Rules

  • Create the parent directory once per storage root, but write each artifact with exclusive creation semantics.
  • If the target artifact already exists, treat that as a successful prior write and move directly to preview generation.
  • Keep preview metadata explicit: content type, truncation status, persisted path, and original size should all be recoverable downstream.
  • Log the persisted location and size so operators can trace where a large result went.

Example Application

When a log-reading tool returns 60 KB of text, write it once to a stable artifact file such as tool-results/<tool-call-id>.txt, then send only a short preview plus the saved path. If the same result is replayed on retry, skip the write and reuse the same artifact reference.

Anti-Patterns (What NOT to do)

  • Don’t re-write the same file on retries; failing to check EEXIST causes EOS errors and clobbers the previous log.
  • Don’t drop the preview header; consumers depend on <persisted-output> tags to know the persisted location.
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. 7d ago First seen · 28 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A ded22ded75f8

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idempotent-tool-result-persistence is a skill published in the GitHub repository ychampion/cskill-agents (36 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 420 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.