ave: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/diagnose/SKILL.md

diagnose is a skill for Claude Code from aveproject/ave. It costs 0 tokens per session (160 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A troubleshooting workflow for AVE vulnerability rules and records. It covers false positives, validation failures, and cases where a scanner misses a new record.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to reduce a false positive, validate a record's JSON, or investigate why a scanner does not detect a newly added vulnerability record.
Why use it?
It turns common scanning and record problems into focused checks instead of trial and error.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is aveproject/ave's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on ave itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything ave configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to aveproject/ave. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aveproject/ave/main/.claude/skills/diagnose/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aveproject/ave

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 160 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 $0.00000 $0.00160
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00064
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00032
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00016

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 4785026d5e21, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

diagnose 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 1mo 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.

.claude/skills/diagnose/SKILL.md · 19 lines

What it actually says

diagnose — ave

Rule misfires (false positive on negative fixture)

Repro: run the rule against the negative fixture in isolation. Minimize: trim the negative fixture to the smallest triggering line. Hypothesize: which pattern/condition is too broad? Fix: tighten the rule. Re-run both fixtures.

Record fails validation

Repro: python scripts/validate_records.py Read the jsonschema error — it names the failing field. Common: severity/aivss_score mismatch, missing required field, ave_id format wrong.

Scanner does not pick up a new record

Check: is the record in records/ with valid JSON? Check: does evidence_basis_engines list an engine that has a rule? Check: does the rule reference the correct ave_id?

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. 1mo ago First seen · 19 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 4785026d5e21

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diagnose is a skill published in the GitHub repository aveproject/ave (24 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 160 tokens. 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.