init

init is a command for Claude Code from dorukanc/harness-council. It costs 24 tokens per session (344 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that adds project-specific routing settings for Harness Council, a system that sends different coding tasks to different AI workers. It creates a configuration file and a section in the project's agent instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to initialize routing rules, choose a custom instructions filename, force an existing configuration update, or create only the configuration or documentation file.
Why use it?
It records how this project should route tasks without overwriting the rest of the existing instructions, and can be run again safely.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the council-cc plugin — 1 skill, 3 commands, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to initialize routing rules, choose a custom instructions filename, force an existing configuration update, or create only the configuration or documentation file.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/dorukanc/harness-council/init
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dorukanc/harness-council

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install council-cc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 3 commands, 1 hook.

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Per session 24 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 344 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 $0.00024 $0.00344
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00138
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00069
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00034

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 734566451ac4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

init 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 2mo 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.

plugins/claude-code/commands/init.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

Set up Harness Council overrides for the current project.

First make it clear this is optional: council already works in every project (user-scope MCP + the council-runtime skill). init only exists to pin project-specific routing.

Run:

council init

This writes two files, both idempotent — re-running updates the managed block in place and never touches the user's own content:

  • .harness-council.toml — a fully commented template showing what this project resolves to today. Commented values keep inheriting ~/.harness-council/config.toml; uncommenting pins them to this repo.
  • CLAUDE.md — a <!-- harness-council:start --> block describing council and the current role table.

Useful flags: --file AGENTS.md (when another harness orchestrates this repo), --force (overwrite an existing toml), --no-toml / --no-doc.

Extra context from the user: $ARGUMENTS

If they described project-specific routing rules (e.g. "always explore first here", "code should go to Claude in this repo"), then after running init:

  1. Uncomment and edit the matching keys in .harness-council.toml.
  2. Replace the guidance placeholder comment inside the CLAUDE.md block with those rules in plain prose.
  3. Re-read the files back to the user and summarize what changed.
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. 2mo ago First seen · 38 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 734566451ac4

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init is a command published in the GitHub repository dorukanc/harness-council (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 344 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.