harness:acceptance-eval

harness:acceptance-eval is a command for Claude Code from Intense-Visions/harness-engineering. It costs 133 tokens per session (545 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A pre-work check for acceptance criteria, which are the measurable conditions that show a feature is finished. It judges whether the specification is clear, testable, complete, and connected to tests for user-visible behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when assessing a feature specification before implementation or merge. It can advise on unclear criteria and stop a merge when the criteria are not measurable with high confidence.
Why use it?
It can reveal vague success conditions before coding starts. This reduces the risk of building something that cannot be checked or whose important behavior has no test.

Command for Claude Code

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/intense-visions/harness-engineering/acceptance-eval
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Intense-Visions/harness-engineering

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 133 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 545 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00133 $0.00545
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.00272
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00109
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00055

Measured 3d ago against content hash c1288bb08a5b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

harness:acceptance-eval 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 3d 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.

.claude-plugin/commands/acceptance-eval.md · 39 lines

What it actually says

Phases:

  • resolve: Resolve the judgment section (Success Criteria -> User-Visible Behavior -> Overview), recorded in judgedAgainst
  • gather: Locate test evidence for (b) coverage via testGlobs/testContent; optional — omission degrades coverage findings, never the (c) gate (optional)
  • judge: Invoke AcceptanceEvaluator; the LLM returns measurability/confidence/criteriaFindings/coverageFindings/rationale; authority is derived in TS via deriveAcceptanceAuthority
  • gate: Render the verdict; on a blocking verdict (NOT_MEASURABLE + high confidence) HALT before merge

<execution_context> @agents/skills/claude-code/acceptance-eval/SKILL.md @agents/skills/claude-code/acceptance-eval/skill.yaml </execution_context>

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. 3d ago First seen · 39 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A c1288bb08a5b

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harness:acceptance-eval is a command published in the GitHub repository Intense-Visions/harness-engineering (19 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 133 tokens to every session and 545 once invoked, about $0.0007 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.