check

check is a command for Claude Code from polygraphso/litmus. It costs 14 tokens per session (261 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A command for reading a server’s previously published safety grade without running a new test. The grade uses letters from A to F; an unavailable or failed lookup means the server’s safety is unknown.

In plain words
What is it for?
It retrieves published grades for MCP servers or skills and explains whether the result is available, unknown, or unevaluated.
Why use it?
It helps you check recorded safety information before trusting an MCP server, a service that gives an AI agent extra tools.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the polygraph plugin — 1 skill, 2 commands, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit It retrieves published grades for MCP servers or skills and explains whether the result is available, unknown, or unevaluated.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/polygraphso/litmus/check
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/polygraphso/litmus

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install polygraph, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 2 commands, 1 MCP server.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 14 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 261 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 $0.00014 $0.00261
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00104
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00052
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00026

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 7c3067928b7c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

check 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 1mo 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/polygraph/commands/check.md · 20 lines

What it actually says

Use the verify_attestation tool from the polygraph-litmus MCP server (bundled with this plugin) to read the published polygraph grade for $ARGUMENTS. If it returns not_available, say the server is unevaluated (neither safe nor unsafe) and offer to grade it live with /polygraph:grade. If it returns lookup_failed, say the lookup itself failed so the grade is unknown — do not call it unevaluated. (To read a published skill grade, use verify_skill_attestation instead.)

If verify_attestation isn't in your available tools, it may just need loading (some clients surface MCP tools lazily) — try to load it before concluding it's missing. Only if the polygraph-litmus server genuinely isn't connected, tell me to enable the plugin (/plugin install polygraph@polygraphso, adding the marketplace first with /plugin marketplace add polygraphso/litmus if needed) and restart the session so the tools load. Do not suggest claude mcp add — the plugin already provides the server.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 20 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 7c3067928b7c

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check is a command published in the GitHub repository polygraphso/litmus (8 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 261 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.