ab-harness

ab-harness is a plugin for Claude Code from wan-huiyan/claude-ecosystem-hygiene. Its manifest loads nothing; the 1 skill it bundles cost 199 tokens per session together, scanned A, original, MIT.

A testing tool that compares Claude Code work with a project setup enabled and disabled, then removes individual setup layers to measure their effect.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run controlled comparisons and identify which parts of a Claude Code setup help or add little value.
Why use it?
It helps determine whether skills, notes, memory, and project instructions actually improve results instead of relying on assumptions.

Plugin for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code plugin manifest. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to run controlled comparisons and identify which parts of a Claude Code setup help or add little value.

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Install in Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add wan-huiyan/claude-ecosystem-hygiene/plugin install ab-harness
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/wan-huiyan/claude-ecosystem-hygiene

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 1 skill cost 199 tokens a session between them.
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.
Security

Grade A, and why

ab-harness 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 8d 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/ab-harness/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 22 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "ab-harness",
  "description": "Counterfactual A/B + layered-ablation harness for Claude Code setup. Measures whether your ~/.claude/ stack (skills, lessons, axioms, memory) plus in-repo discipline (docs/runbooks, decisions, findings) actually helps on real tasks. Binary A/B (setup-ON vs setup-OFF) and layered ablation (strip one layer at a time, rank by impact). Heavyweight: $10\u2013$80 per run, 30min\u20133hrs wall time \u2014 this is a measurement experiment, not a lint. Pairs with ecosystem-audit (identify HOT artifacts) and memory-hygiene (prune DORMANT ones).",
  "version": "1.2.0",
  "author": {
    "name": "wan-huiyan",
    "url": "https://github.com/wan-huiyan"
  },
  "repository": "https://github.com/wan-huiyan/claude-ecosystem-hygiene",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "claude-code",
    "claude-code-skill",
    "ab-testing",
    "ablation",
    "counterfactual",
    "measurement",
    "hygiene",
    "ecosystem"
  ]
}
Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 1 skill travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 199 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.

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. 8d ago First seen · 22 lines scan A 859626cff719

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ab-harness is a plugin published in the GitHub repository wan-huiyan/claude-ecosystem-hygiene (1 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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.