Agent Repellent

What it does

Example prompts

• “/agent-repellent”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Discovery. Use LS on the repo root to find top-level directories.
2. 2First AskUser. Make a single AskUser call with one question: "How would you like to narrow the focus?" with options: "Whole repo" /…
3. 3Second AskUser (conditional). Based on what the user picked for the focus question above, make a SECOND AskUser call — or skip it
4. 4Quick scan. If scoped to a folder, focus LS/Grep/Read within that directory. Use LS, Glob, Grep, Read, and Execute to check for…
5. 5Generate the assessment. Write 1-2 short paragraphs (separated by a newline if two). Keep it concise, shorter is better. Don't pad with…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit f1f4c32. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are json).

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

  • x.com

  Also links to:

  • docs.factory.ai

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Agent Repellent loads about 971 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 21 tokens; SKILL.md has 516 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~21

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~971

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

• NoteMentions a .env fileSKILL.md:14

  CRITICAL: Never read or reference `.env` files, `.env.*` variants, API keys, tokens, credentials, passwords, private key

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from Factory-AI/cursed-plugins at commit f1f4c32, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© Factory-AI). 516 words, ~971 tokens.

name

agent-repellent

description

Assess your codebase's resistance to AI-assisted development tools.

version

1.0.0

tools

Read, Grep, Glob, LS, Execute, AskUser

{
  "type": "agent-repellent",
  "title": "Agent Repellent Assessment: <repo-name>",
  "content": "<plain text, no emojis, 1-2 short paragraphs>",
  "pullQuote": "<most quotable line from content, max 200 chars>",
  "repoName": "<repo-name>"
}

<Content paragraph>

© Factory-AI, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/agent-repellent of Factory-AI/cursed-plugins.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit f1f4c32