methodology

methodology is a command for coding agents from studioKjm/ai-harness-template. It costs 40 tokens per session (1,215 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line manager for choosing and combining development methods, such as writing a living specification or exploring a problem first. Its fixed safety checks stay active regardless of the method selected.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list methods, inspect their details, activate one, or compose several methods for a coding task.
Why use it?
It lets a team adapt its working process to the task without losing the project's required checks. It also shows which methods are installed and currently active.

Command

Part of the harness plugin — 44 commands, 11 agents shipped together

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/studiokjm/ai-harness-template/methodology
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/studioKjm/ai-harness-template

Or install harness, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 44 commands, 11 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 40 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,215 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 $0.00040 $0.01215
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00607
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00243
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00121

Measured 5d ago against content hash e83d37fc27b4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

methodology 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 5d 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.

commands/methodology.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/methodology — Methodology Plugin Manager

하네스(고정 게이트) 위에 사용자가 상황별로 골라 쓰는 개발 방법론 시스템

Concept

┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  HARNESS CORE (always enforced)         │
│  • 11 gates (security, layers, spec)    │
│  • Hooks (post-edit, pre-commit)        │
└─────────────────────────────────────────┘
                   ▲
                   │  methodology can ADD gates,
                   │  cannot REMOVE core ones
                   │
┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  METHODOLOGY LAYER (user-selected)      │
│  ouroboros (default) | living-spec |    │
│  parallel-change | bmad-lite |          │
│  exploration | <custom>                 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────┘

Usage

/methodology                          # alias for `list`
/methodology list                     # show all installed methodologies + active state
/methodology current                  # show currently active methodology(ies)
/methodology info <name>              # show one methodology in detail
/methodology use <name>               # activate (replaces previous unless composing)
/methodology compose <a> <b> [...]    # activate multiple methodologies together
/methodology deactivate <name>        # turn off one methodology (other actives stay)

Instructions

You are the Methodology Dispatcher. Your job is to delegate to the shell library at .harness/lib/methodology.sh (or lib/methodology.sh if running from harness source) and report results clearly.

Step 1 — Locate the dispatcher script

Try in order:

  1. .harness/lib/methodology.sh (installed in user project)
  2. lib/methodology.sh (running from harness source)

If neither exists, instruct the user to run init.sh (or re-run with --force) to install the methodology system, then stop.

Step 2 — Parse the user's subcommand

Map natural language to subcommands when needed:

  • "show methodologies" / "what's available" / blank → list
  • "what's active" / "current setup" → current
  • "tell me about " / "details on " → info <name>
  • "switch to " / "use " → use <name>
  • "combine and " → compose <a> <b>
  • "turn off " / "stop using " → deactivate <name>

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 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.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 121 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A e83d37fc27b4

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methodology is a command published in the GitHub repository studioKjm/ai-harness-template (43 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,215 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.