harness-init

harness-init is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from anotherben/claude-harness. It costs 73 tokens per session (4,768 once invoked), scanned C, original, no licence file.

A setup guide for installing a project governance system with hooks, instructions, settings, evidence tracking, and project discovery.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting a project or adding the governance system so its related commands and processes are configured.
Why use it?
It gathers the project's technical context and prepares the supporting controls needed for the governance workflow.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when starting a project or adding the governance system so its related commands and processes are configured.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anotherben/claude-harness/harness-init
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 anotherben/claude-harness --skill harness-init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anotherben/claude-harness

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 harness-init

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for harness-init

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,768 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 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 $0.00073 $0.04768
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.02384
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00954
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00477

Measured 9d ago against content hash d6aa5a19f32b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

harness-init scanned grade C with 2 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 9d 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 directoriesmediumAgent snooping

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

cat .claude/enterprise-state/stack-profile.json

Enumerates other installed skillsmediumAgent snooping

Other skills' SKILL.md files reveal prompts, capabilities and secrets that should be invisible to peers.

| Skill count | `ls -d .claude/skills/*/ \| wc -l` | 26+ |
skills/harness-init/SKILL.md · 483 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 9d ago First seen · 483 lines · 73 tokens per session scan C d6aa5a19f32b

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harness-init is a skill published in the GitHub repository anotherben/claude-harness (7 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 4,768 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (reads agent configuration directories, enumerates other installed skills). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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