legacy-code-safety

legacy-code-safety is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Accelerated-Innovation/governed-ai-delivery. It costs 68 tokens per session (1,404 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A safety method for changing old or poorly understood code by first creating trustworthy feedback around its current behavior. Characterization tests record what existing code does before it is modified.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for adding approval or characterization tests, creating test access, isolating dependencies, and replacing risky legacy code incrementally.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance of breaking behavior that is not documented or well covered by tests.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit It is for adding approval or characterization tests, creating test access, isolating dependencies, and replacing risky legacy code incrementally.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/accelerated-innovation/governed-ai-delivery/legacy-code-safety
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.

Any agent
npx skills add Accelerated-Innovation/governed-ai-delivery --skill legacy-code-safety
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Accelerated-Innovation/governed-ai-delivery

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,404 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 unknown 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 $0.00068 $0.01404
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00702
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00281
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00140

Measured 7d ago against content hash 8cdd447ae1c2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

legacy-code-safety 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 7d 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.

extensions/otter-skills/skills/legacy-code-safety/SKILL.md · 158 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

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Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 7d ago First seen · 158 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 8cdd447ae1c2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

legacy-code-safety is a skill published in the GitHub repository Accelerated-Innovation/governed-ai-delivery (20 stars, last pushed 8d ago), with no licence file. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 1,404 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-04.

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