governance

governance is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ASMN-96/ai-agents-skills-toolkit. It costs 60 tokens per session (1,163 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for managing serious software work through source-of-truth checks, planning, safety gates, validation, and release readiness.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for audits, migrations, security or backend work, releases, and other multi-step projects that need controlled coordination.
Why use it?
It helps keep decisions, permissions, project status, and validation claims consistent across complex work. It also limits unnecessary tools and changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it for audits, migrations, security or backend work, releases, and other multi-step projects that need controlled coordination.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/asmn-96/ai-agents-skills-toolkit/governance
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 ASMN-96/ai-agents-skills-toolkit --skill governance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ASMN-96/ai-agents-skills-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,163 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.
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 $0.00060 $0.01163
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00581
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00233
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00116

Measured 11d ago against content hash 723688ce1e86, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

governance 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 11d 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.

.agents/skills/governance/SKILL.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Governance

Use this as the canonical final governance entrypoint for serious toolkit or project work.

This skill authorizes routing, planning, read-only checks, capability selection, context-budget discipline, safety gates, and validation gates only. It does not authorize writes, migrations, package changes, CI changes, MCP setup, global config changes, external installs, product-repository writes, or broad plugin/tool activation.

Operating Rules

  • Verify repository source of truth before readiness, release, or implementation claims.
  • Select the smallest useful profile, agent, skill, support-tool, and method surface.
  • Classify GSD and Superpowers on every governance run as not needed, lens only, selected, invoked, or blocked-unavailable; include a one-line reason for each status.
  • Treat GSD as required for serious multi-step work, audits, migrations, backend/database/security/SRE work, source adoption, release programs, and cross-repo/toolkit sync unless an explicit manual GSD-equivalent phase/state fallback is declared.
  • Use GSD as not needed or lens only for tiny tasks where invoking it would create planning noise or unnecessary .planning/ churn.
  • Use compact context packs for large tasks instead of whole-repo or whole-registry dumps.
  • Keep selected agents separate from agents actually spawned.
  • Treat registries, source records, dry-runs, reports, and metadata as evidence, not execution.
  • Preserve WARN output in completion reports even when aggregate validation passes.
  • Stop before security-sensitive, destructive, global, package, CI, or product-repository changes unless separately approved.
  • Route normal-language tasks through .ai-toolkit/methods/governance/task-intake-routing-gate.md before coding. Canonical toolkit source: methods/governance/task-intake-routing-gate.md.
  • Use .ai-toolkit/methods/governance/governance-lite-router-mode.md as a concise method-only governance mode for small/medium tasks; do not create or activate a governance-lite or router-lite skill. Canonical toolkit source: methods/governance/governance-lite-router-mode.md.
  • Route serious implementation through .ai-toolkit/methods/reliability/coding-time-production-readiness.md when production-style coding-time gates are needed. Canonical toolkit source: methods/reliability/coding-time-production-readiness.md.
  • Route unsafe-command questions through .ai-toolkit/methods/governance/agent-command-safety.md. Canonical toolkit source: methods/governance/agent-command-safety.md.
  • Route package-manager or workspace migration questions through .ai-toolkit/methods/repo/package-manager-workspace-migration.md. Canonical toolkit source: methods/repo/package-manager-workspace-migration.md.
  • Use .ai-toolkit/docs/PROJECT_TOOLING_OPERATING_MODEL.md for v0.2 project tooling boundaries. Canonical toolkit source: docs/PROJECT_TOOLING_OPERATING_MODEL.md.
  • Use the v0.2.5 activation model: active-if-detected for existing project-owned tools, owner-approved-install for absent tools, ci-advisory before calibrated CI blocking, static-adopted for safe toolkit-owned static concepts, and forbidden-runtime for MCP/daemon/global/memory/watcher conflicts.
  • Use templates/commit-message-template.md for governed release or hardening commits that need consistent why/what/validation evidence.
  • Use .ai-toolkit/methods/internal/documentation-accuracy-guard.md when docs mention concrete symbols, commands, flags, routes, config keys, paths, examples, or behavior. Canonical toolkit source: methods/internal/documentation-accuracy-guard.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 lines

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. 11d ago First seen · 62 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 723688ce1e86

Subscribe to this mod's changes

governance is a skill published in the GitHub repository ASMN-96/ai-agents-skills-toolkit (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 1,163 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.