Getting it into your agent
This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.
/plugin marketplace add yintzuyuan/glyphs-reference/plugin install glyphs-referenceWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/yintzuyuan/glyphs-reference/glyphs-remote-scripts)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/yintzuyuan/glyphs-reference/glyphs-remote-scripts"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yintzuyuan/glyphs-reference/glyphs-remote-scripts/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/yintzuyuan/glyphs-reference/glyphs-remote-scripts"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yintzuyuan/glyphs-reference/glyphs-remote-scripts.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00051 | $0.01655 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00026 | $0.00827 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00010 | $0.00331 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00166 |
Grade A, and why
glyphs-remote-scripts 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 8d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Glyphs Remote Scripts Skill
Control Glyphs.app from an external Python process via NSConnection (Distributed Objects). This API provides a bridge to create objects, access documents, and execute Macro code without running inside Glyphs. Use it when you need to drive Glyphs from a system-level script (CI pipeline, terminal, automation runner) rather than from the Macro window or a plugin.
Source Path
${GLYPHS_SDK_PATH}/Glyphs remote scripts/
Where GLYPHS_SDK_PATH is the local GlyphsSDK submodule root. Typically GlyphsSDK/ relative to the plugin repository root. If unset, fall back to ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/GlyphsSDK/.
The entire API is contained in 4 files (~210 lines total):
| File | Lines | Content |
|---|---|---|
Glyphs.py |
106 | Bridge module: connection, factory functions, RunScript, constants |
testExternal.py |
103 | 6 usage examples (export, UFO, RunScript, layer access, etc.) |
accessSpecificVersion.py |
5 | Connect to a specific Glyphs build version |
Readme.md |
3 | Brief description |
Key Concept: NSConnection Bridge
The bridge uses macOS Distributed Objects (NSConnection) to connect to a running Glyphs.app instance. This means:
- Glyphs.app must be running before executing any remote script
- No Python wrapper available — must use Obj-C method names (e.g.,
font.familyName(),glyph.setName_(name)) instead of Python-style property access (e.g.,font.familyName,glyph.name = name) - Objects returned are proxy objects communicating via inter-process messaging
- Method calls are synchronous and block until Glyphs responds; expect higher latency than in-process calls
When to use remote scripts vs. inside-Glyphs scripts
| Goal | Use |
|---|---|
| One-off automation from terminal | Remote scripts (this skill) |
| CI / scheduled job that opens fonts, runs ops, exports | Remote scripts |
| Macro window interactive prototyping | Inside-Glyphs (glyphs-python-api) |
| Plugin (Reporter, Filter, etc.) | Inside-Glyphs (glyphs-sdk-reference) |
Read .glyphs file without launching Glyphs |
Neither — use glyphsLib Python package |
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.
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.
- 8d ago First seen · 150 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 16fd7852348f
glyphs-remote-scripts is a skill published in the GitHub repository yintzuyuan/glyphs-reference (6 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 1,655 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.
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