pre-round-scan

pre-round-scan is a skill for Claude Code from Arch1eSUN/Arcgentic. It costs 73 tokens per session (611 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A pre-work inventory for each role at the beginning of a development round. It lists available skills, plugins, external tool connections, sub-agents, project instructions, references, and technical-debt records, then maps them to the round's needs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before planning, implementation, auditing, or reference tracking to decide which tools and project resources belong in the round and document that choice in the handoff or verdict.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance that an agent overlooks an existing tool or ignores a project-specific instruction. It also records why available options were chosen or rejected.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Part of the arcgentic plugin — 18 skills, 9 agents, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it before planning, implementation, auditing, or reference tracking to decide which tools and project resources belong in the round and document that choice in the handoff or verdict.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/arch1esun/arcgentic/pre-round-scan
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 Arch1eSUN/Arcgentic --skill pre-round-scan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Arch1eSUN/Arcgentic

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install arcgentic, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills, 9 agents, 1 MCP server.

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 pre-round-scan

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 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 611 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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: 1 finding, up to medium

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 →

  • medium Agent Snooping · line 20
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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 $0.00073 $0.00611
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00305
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00122
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00061

Measured 9d ago against content hash 6871aacffb21, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pre-round-scan 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 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.

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.

skills/pre-round-scan/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pre-round scan

When to use

EVERY role skill (plan-round, execute-round, audit-round, track-refs) invokes this as its first action, before any other reasoning. Output goes into the role's handoff/verdict document as a "§ Toolkit use" section.

Rationale

R1.4 Moirai mandate (post-NEEDS_FIX): "default: multi-agent dispatch is the path, serial is the exception". Without a pre-round scan, agents repeatedly forget that MCP servers / agency-agents / skills exist and default to from-scratch implementation. The scan is mechanical insurance.

Procedure

  1. Read state.yaml to know which round + which role
  2. Inventory locally available:
    • Skills under ~/.claude/skills/ (user-level)
    • Plugins under ~/.claude/plugins/ (cached + installed)
    • MCP servers configured in ~/.claude.json
    • Sub-agents under ~/.claude/agents/
  3. Inventory project-local:
    • Project's CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md mandates
    • Project's references/INDEX.md (if exists) — categorized OSS clones
    • Project's tech-debt registry (if exists)
  4. Map to round needs:
    • For each round-relevant subsystem, identify candidates from inventory
    • State which will be used + why
    • State which were considered + rejected + why
  5. Document in audit/handoff § "Toolkit use"

See references/scan-checklist.md for the explicit checklist.

Mandatory output format

### Toolkit use (pre-round scan)

**Skills available + considered:**
- arcgentic:foo — used (reason)
- arcgentic:bar — rejected (reason)
- ...

**MCP servers available + considered:**
- context7 — used for {library} docs lookup
- ...

**Sub-agents available + considered:**
- backend-architect — used for BA design pass
- ...

**External references available + considered:**
- references/X — used (used-what-part)
- references/Y — rejected (reason)
- ...

Failures count

Tool failures are first-class. If context7 returns 500 and you fall back to web search, record both the attempt and the fallback. Silent degradation is a Rule 2 violation in arcgentic's discipline ledger.

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 9d ago First seen · 67 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 6871aacffb21

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pre-round-scan is a skill published in the GitHub repository Arch1eSUN/Arcgentic (293 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 611 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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