What is harness-audit?

A deterministic audit of a coding-agent repository or project that produces a prioritized scorecard. It checks seven fixed areas, including tool coverage, testing, memory, security, and cost efficiency.

Use it to audit a repository, its hooks, skills, commands, or agents, with text or JSON output and an optional target path.

It shows where an agent setup is weak using repeatable checks, so improvements can be prioritized instead of judged informally.

harness-audit — Command for Claude Code by raja21068/AutoResearch

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/raja21068/AutoResearch

agentmods

npx agentmods add commands/raja21068/autoresearch/harness-audit

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 583 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 80% copy Near-identical to another mod 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00000	$0.00583
Opus 5.5	$0.00000	$0.00233
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00000	$0.00117
Haiku 4.5	$0.00000	$0.00058

Measured 2mo ago against content hash ba76cdd30f6f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

harness-audit 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.

Origin

This is a copy

80% identical to harness-audit — 8 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/commands/harness-audit.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Harness Audit Command

Run a deterministic repository harness audit and return a prioritized scorecard.

Usage

/harness-audit [scope] [--format text|json] [--root path]

scope (optional): repo (default), hooks, skills, commands, agents
--format: output style (text default, json for automation)
--root: audit a specific path instead of the current working directory

Deterministic Engine

Always run:

node scripts/harness-audit.js <scope> --format <text|json> [--root <path>]

This script is the source of truth for scoring and checks. Do not invent additional dimensions or ad-hoc points.

Rubric version: 2026-03-30.

The script computes 7 fixed categories (0-10 normalized each):

Tool Coverage
Context Efficiency
Quality Gates
Memory Persistence
Eval Coverage
Security Guardrails
Cost Efficiency

Scores are derived from explicit file/rule checks and are reproducible for the same commit. The script audits the current working directory by default and auto-detects whether the target is the ECC repo itself or a consumer project using ECC.

Output Contract

Return:

overall_score out of max_score (70 for repo; smaller for scoped audits)
Category scores and concrete findings
Failed checks with exact file paths
Top 3 actions from the deterministic output (top_actions)
Suggested ECC skills to apply next

Checklist

Use script output directly; do not rescore manually.
If --format json is requested, return the script JSON unchanged.
If text is requested, summarize failing checks and top actions.
Include exact file paths from checks[] and top_actions[].

Example Result

Harness Audit (repo): 66/70
- Tool Coverage: 10/10 (10/10 pts)
- Context Efficiency: 9/10 (9/10 pts)
- Quality Gates: 10/10 (10/10 pts)

Top 3 Actions:
1) [Security Guardrails] Add prompt/tool preflight security guards in hooks/hooks.json. (hooks/hooks.json)
2) [Tool Coverage] Sync commands/harness-audit.md and .opencode/commands/harness-audit.md. (.opencode/commands/harness-audit.md)
3) [Eval Coverage] Increase automated test coverage across scripts/hooks/lib. (tests/)

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 lines

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.

2mo ago First seen · 74 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A ba76cdd30f6f

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harness-audit is a command published in the GitHub repository raja21068/AutoResearch (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 583 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 80% identical to harness-audit, differing in 8 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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