aet-check

A bounded check of an AI coding project's instructions, skills, verification rules, and risky permissions. It determines whether these engineering assets are usable and honest about what they verify.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when explicitly requested to inspect a repository's agent instructions and verification setup. It reads selected project files and reports whether findings are supported, unknown, or not applicable.
Why use it?
It helps reveal unsupported claims, unclear evidence, unsafe authority, and uncertainty before relying on the project's guidance.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/advancingtitans/agent-engineering-toolkit/aet-check
Any agent
npx skills add AdvancingTitans/agent-engineering-toolkit --skill aet-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AdvancingTitans/agent-engineering-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 411 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 $0.00043 $0.00411
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00205
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00082
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00041

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8061a680635c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aet-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 2d 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.

skills/aet-check/SKILL.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

/aet-check

Answer one question: are this repository's Agent engineering assets usable and honest about verification?

Boundary

  • Start with aet quick check <root> --format json.
  • Read only Agent instructions, Skills, README, package/test configuration, CI, and files directly relevant to the finding.
  • Do not read complete Git history, execute project code, access credentials, write files, or call remote tools by default.
  • The deterministic preflight owns PASS, FAIL, UNKNOWN, and NOT_APPLICABLE. Never rewrite them.

Investigation

The host LLM may form at most three competing hypotheses and use authorized tools to clarify project-specific meaning. Every factual claim needs a hash-bound result_ref; inspect a reasonable counter-explanation before issuing SUPPORTED. Preserve the distinction between facts, engineering judgment, uncertainty, and suggested action.

Before rendering an Investigated Finding, pass the canonical Finding, Ledger, authorized-tool set, and Investigation Contract through aet.investigation.validate_investigated_finding. If that API is unavailable or rejects the record, preserve HYPOTHESIS/UNKNOWN and disclose why.

Budget: 30 seconds, three rounds, at most two LLM calls, six tool calls, one expensive call, zero remote calls, and five reported findings.

If the user invoked /aet-check in Chinese and asked in Chinese, explain the result in natural Simplified Chinese while keeping code and required technical terms in English. Otherwise use English.

Emit the bounded report, disclose uninspected surfaces, and stop. Do not start Scope, Proof, Fresh, Learn, Gate, Stage, Adopt, or a repair.

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. 2d ago First seen · 43 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 8061a680635c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

aet-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository AdvancingTitans/agent-engineering-toolkit (2 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 411 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 2026-08-31.

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