governance-sync

governance-sync is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ariaxhan/kernel-claude. It costs 38 tokens per session (737 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A controlled method for checking and synchronizing repository instructions used by Claude and Codex, without replacing conflicting files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Auditing AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md governance files and, when explicitly requested, creating or updating a compatible instruction adapter.
Why use it?
It reveals whether instruction files are missing, outdated, duplicated, or in conflict before making changes. This prevents one tool's rules from silently overwriting another's.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the kernel plugin — 28 skills, 13 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ariaxhan/kernel-claude/governance-sync
Any agent
npx skills add ariaxhan/kernel-claude --skill governance-sync
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ariaxhan/kernel-claude

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install kernel, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 13 agents, 4 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 737 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00038 $0.00737
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00368
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00147
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00074

Measured 5d ago against content hash 653bfb0f1258, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

governance-sync 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 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.

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/governance-sync/SKILL.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Governance sync

This explicit-only operator audits native repository instructions and can create a missing Claude or Codex adapter from one declared source. It never edits a conflict.

Audit first

Resolve the installed script once. Claude Code and Codex compatibility loading provide CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT; otherwise use the direct relative path from the documented installed skills/governance-sync working directory:

if [ -n "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-}" ]; then
  KERNEL_GOVERNANCE_SYNC="$CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/governance-sync.py"
else
  KERNEL_GOVERNANCE_SYNC="../../scripts/governance-sync.py"
fi
test -f "$KERNEL_GOVERNANCE_SYNC"

Run python3 "$KERNEL_GOVERNANCE_SYNC" audit <root> --json. The audit discovers canonical Git roots, ignores caches, deduplicates linked worktrees, and reports: missing both, Claude-only, AGENTS-only, both identical, generated current, generated stale, incomplete generation, conflict, and scoped .claude states. Generated states are decided from manifest hashes and adapter provenance, not raw file equality. Missing-both is compliant and remains untouched unless init is explicit.

Writes require confirmation

Show the exact repository, source, target, and backup directory. Continue only after the user confirms one command:

python3 "$KERNEL_GOVERNANCE_SYNC" adopt REPO --source CLAUDE.md --backup-dir REPO/.kernel-governance-backups/adopt
python3 "$KERNEL_GOVERNANCE_SYNC" generate REPO --backup-dir REPO/.kernel-governance-backups/generate
python3 "$KERNEL_GOVERNANCE_SYNC" check REPO

AGENTS.md and .claude/CLAUDE.md are also valid sources. The manifest pins the source path, source hash, output, output hash, and generator version. Scoped sources stay where they are; only the missing root-native adapter is generated. A regular file conflict, unrecorded edit, stale hash, malformed manifest, symlink, or existing backup with different content stops the operation. Identical backups are idempotent. Backups stay inside the repository. Use separate BACKUPS/adopt and BACKUPS/generate phases so an approved source update preserves both the pre-adoption state and the adapter it replaces.

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 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. 5d ago First seen · 71 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 653bfb0f1258

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governance-sync is a skill published in the GitHub repository ariaxhan/kernel-claude (12 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 737 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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