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.
npx agentmods add skills/appsvortex/arness/arn-assessingnpx skills add AppsVortex/arness --skill arn-assessinggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AppsVortex/arnessWhat 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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00132 | $0.00804 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00066 | $0.00402 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00026 | $0.00161 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00013 | $0.00080 |
Grade A, and why
arn-assessing 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 yesterday.
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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Arness Assessing
Comprehensive technical assessment of the codebase against stored patterns, followed by prioritized improvement identification. This is a first-citizen entry point that wraps arn-code-assess with a pre-flight check and provides chaining context to arn-implementing.
This skill is a medium orchestration wrapper. It MUST NOT duplicate arn-code-assess logic. All assessment work is done by the invoked skill (which has its own 7 internal gates). Arness-assessing handles: prerequisite checks, pre-flight validation, invoking the assess skill, and offering the chain exit.
Step 0: Ensure Configuration
Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/arn-code-ensure-config/references/step-0-fast-path.md and follow its instructions. This guarantees a user profile exists and ## Arness is configured with Arness Code fields before proceeding.
After Step 0 completes, extract the following from ## Arness:
- Code patterns — path to the directory containing stored pattern documentation
Workflow
Step 1: Pre-flight Check
Verify that pattern documentation exists at the configured Code patterns path:
<code-patterns-dir>/code-patterns.md<code-patterns-dir>/testing-patterns.md<code-patterns-dir>/architecture.md
If any are missing: inform the user: "Pattern documentation is incomplete. The assessment needs stored patterns to compare against. Run /arn-planning first — it will generate pattern docs on first use." Do not proceed.
If all exist: inform the user briefly: "Pattern documentation found. Starting assessment..."
Step 2: Invoke Assess
Show progress:
Assessing: PRE-FLIGHT -> ASSESSMENT (scope -> analyze -> prioritize -> spec -> plan -> execute -> ship -> update-patterns)
^^^^^^^^^^
Invoke the assess skill:
Skill: arn-code:arn-code-assess
The assess skill has its own 7 internal decision gates (scope selection, improvement selection, spec review, execution mode, etc.) and manages its own complete pipeline internally. Wait for it to complete.
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.
- yesterday First seen · 83 lines · 132 tokens per session scan A 107af5bf9e7b
arn-assessing is a skill published in the GitHub repository AppsVortex/arness (33 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 132 tokens to every session and 804 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-30.
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