03-assert

03-assert is a skill for Claude Code from ai-driven-dev/framework. It costs 39 tokens per session (353 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A validation skill that runs a project's coding checks and can repeat the fix-and-check cycle until they pass. It also supports optional architecture checks and checks of a running frontend.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after implementing changes to run tests and other project checks, verify documented architecture, or check a user interface in the browser.
Why use it?
It provides a pass-or-fail check that work behaves as intended instead of relying only on inspection.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the aidd-dev plugin — 11 skills, 2 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 skills/ai-driven-dev/framework/03-assert
Any agent
npx skills add ai-driven-dev/framework --skill 03-assert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ai-driven-dev/framework

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aidd-dev, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 2 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for 03-assert

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 353 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 5.1 $0.00039 $0.00353
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00177
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00071
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00035

Measured 2d ago against content hash ee47757d1f7b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

03-assert 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.

plugins/aidd-dev/skills/03-assert/SKILL.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

Skill: assert

Validate that the work behaves as intended: run the project's assertions, iterating and fixing until they pass.

Actions

# Action Facet
01 assert Run the project's coding assertions, fixing until they pass
02 assert-architecture Report where the code breaks the documented architecture
03 assert-frontend Inspect the running UI, fixing until the behavior is right

Run every applicable facet by default, or one when named. Coding (01) always applies; add 03 when the work has a UI and a frontend is running, the facet resolving the URL itself; run 02 only when architecture conformance is asked for. Skip a facet whose precondition is absent, with a noted reason. Ask only when the intent is genuinely ambiguous. Before running an action, read its file in actions/, not only the table or assets.

Transversal rules

  • Gate: it returns a pass or fail verdict on the work.
  • Fix loop: the coding and frontend facets fix and re-run until they pass. The architecture facet only reports, never fixes.
  • Stop only when every selected assertion passes a final clean sweep.

Assets

  • assets/task-template.md: the tracking file the frontend facet fills across its fix loop.
Files

What ships with it

4 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. 2d ago First seen · 32 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A ee47757d1f7b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

03-assert is a skill published in the GitHub repository ai-driven-dev/framework (455 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 353 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 2026-09-03.

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