harness-update

harness-update is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from anotherben/claude-harness. It costs 66 tokens per session (680 once invoked), scanned B, original, no licence file.

A synchronisation tool for copying the latest skills from the claude-harness repository into the local Claude and Codex skill folders. A repository is a shared project folder managed with version control.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you need to update or synchronise the project's installed skills with the latest harness version.
Why use it?
It avoids manually finding and copying updated skill files when the central harness changes.

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 you need to update or synchronise the project's installed skills with the latest harness version.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anotherben/claude-harness/harness-update
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-update
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-update

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-update

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 680 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00066 $0.00680
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00340
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00136
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00068

Measured 9d ago against content hash 952a906cc66a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

harness-update scanned grade B 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 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.

Enumerates other installed skillsmediumAgent snooping

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

echo "Claude skills: $(ls ~/.claude/skills/*/SKILL.md 2>/dev/null | wc -l)"
skills/harness-update/SKILL.md · 72 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 · 72 lines · 66 tokens per session scan B 952a906cc66a

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harness-update is a skill published in the GitHub repository anotherben/claude-harness (7 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 680 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (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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