project-check

project-check is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AlexZio00/sovereign-skills. It costs 81 tokens per session (4,603 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only health check for an existing software project. It reviews infrastructure, security, code quality, and the setup used to work on and test the project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit an established project, find missing setup or security protections, and decide whether to use project initialization or setup guidance next.
Why use it?
It turns scattered setup problems into a prioritized report, with the most serious gaps shown first.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: user-invocable in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Part of the project-check plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit an established project, find missing setup or security protections, and decide whether to use project initialization or setup guidance next.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alexzio00/sovereign-skills/project-check
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 AlexZio00/sovereign-skills --skill project-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlexZio00/sovereign-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install project-check, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,603 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 40
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 213
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Agent Snooping · line 161
    Skill reads from agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). These directories may contain API keys, personal settings, and other credentials that the skill has no legitimate need to access.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that access agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). If configuration values are needed, pass them explicitly as parameters or environment variabl
How audits are shown
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 $0.00081 $0.04603
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.02302
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00921
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00460

Measured 5d ago against content hash 2e795fdb4714, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-check scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Reads agent configuration directorieslowAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

| `.claude/settings.json` or `~/.claude/settings.json` | hooks section present? | ⚠ if no hooks |

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

project-check/SKILL.md · 351 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 351 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Check — Existing Project Health Scan

Dominant Variable

Discovered gaps are sorted by severity so the user knows "what to fix first" — an unsorted gap list causes information overload. A report without priority is useless.

Purpose

Scan an existing project against setup best practices across 4 dimensions: Infrastructure, Security, Quality, and Harness. Surface all gaps ordered by severity so the user knows exactly what to fix and in what order.

Dominant variable: Are 🔴 Security issues (hardcoded secrets, .env missing) displayed before all other gaps?

  • Read-only skill: This skill does not modify project files. It generates a gap report only; fix recommendations are delegated to /project-init or /setup.

Discard if: Empty directory or a freshly initialized project (git init) — nothing to scan. Use /project-init directly instead.

Discard If

Empty directory or newly initialized project (git init with no code yet) — nothing to audit. Use /project-init. This skill audits code, infrastructure, security, and quality only. Need a persistent, weighted maturity score with cross-axis trend tracking instead of a one-time 4-dimension pass/fail scan — use /check-harness, not this skill.

Key Assumptions

  1. Project root contains CLAUDE.md or .claude/ directory — if missing: recommend /project-init.
  2. Git repository — if not a repo: skip some Infrastructure checks.

Trigger

  • /project-check
  • "project-check"
  • "what's wrong"

Workflow

Step 0: Scale Detection

Count source files to calibrate warning thresholds:

Scan: *.py, *.ts, *.tsx, *.js, *.go, *.rs, *.java, *.kt, *.swift, *.c, *.cpp, *.h

Classify:

  • script: < 10 source files or < 500 LOC → minimal structure expected, skip ROADMAP/ADR warnings
  • mini: 10–50 files or 500–5,000 LOC → CLAUDE.md + tests expected
  • full: > 50 files or > 5,000 LOC → full structure expected, ROADMAP + docs/decisions/ recommended

Detect project name from directory name or name field in package.json / pyproject.toml / Cargo.toml if present.

Read the full file on GitHub · 351 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 5d ago Changed · +20 lines 2e795fdb4714
  2. 13d ago First seen · 331 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A c30104dbed6a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

project-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlexZio00/sovereign-skills (129 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 4,603 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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