mewbo-harness

mewbo-harness is a skill for Claude Code from bearlike/Assistant. It costs 93 tokens per session (1,202 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to the runtime behavior of the Mewbo agent harness, the system that runs tools and sessions.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps agents interpret paged or incomplete output, understand tool availability, resolve directories, and work with spawned agents.
Why use it?
It explains limits and failure behavior that tool descriptions may not show, such as truncated results, timeouts, and relative paths.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the harness plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit It helps agents interpret paged or incomplete output, understand tool availability, resolve directories, and work with spawned agents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bearlike/assistant/mewbo-harness
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 bearlike/Assistant --skill mewbo-harness
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bearlike/Assistant

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install harness, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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Per session 93 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,202 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00093 $0.01202
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00601
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00240
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00120

Measured 9d ago against content hash 6e9aef2d9caa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mewbo-harness 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.

packages/mewbo_core/src/mewbo_core/builtin_plugins/harness/skills/mewbo-harness/SKILL.md · 98 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

How this harness behaves

Runtime semantics that no tool schema can carry. Everything here is a property of the ENGINE; anything specific to your session or your project is not stated here because it would be a guess — get those from the tool that owns them.

Tool results are capped, and a capped result is windowed

Every tool result is fitted to a per-tool character cap before you see it.

Population Cap when the tool declares none
registry tools (ToolSpec.max_result_chars) 2000 characters
session tools (plugin/per-session tools) 200000 characters
directly-bound tools (activate_skill, the spawn family) 2000 characters, except activate_skill at 200000
shell tools 30000 characters (declared, not the default)

When a result exceeds its cap it is windowed, not head-truncated: the head and the tail are both kept and the middle is replaced by a marker of the form [... N characters omitted ...]. So:

  • A marker means you are missing the middle — not the end. The verdict of a command (traceback, exit banner, failure summary) survives.
  • Do not treat a windowed result as complete. Narrow the read instead of re-issuing the same call: grep for the line you need, or page.

A capped result is capped for YOU only. The transcript keeps its own, far larger snapshot, so a result you read in part is stored whole — which means the session page, the console and anyone reading the store see the complete text and have no way to tell that you did not. Nothing warns either side. If a decision turns on a result that carries a marker, say so rather than assuming the reader can see what you were missing.

Paging. read_file is line-windowed — pass offset (0-based start line) and limit (max lines, default 2000) to walk a large file instead of re-reading it. A tool that pages says so in its own schema; when it does not, narrow the query.

A timeout bounds the WAIT, not the work

Tool execution sits under a ceiling — 120 seconds unless the tool declares its own. A tool that hits it comes back as a timed-out call.

Read the full file on GitHub · 98 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. 9d ago First seen · 98 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A 6e9aef2d9caa

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mewbo-harness is a skill published in the GitHub repository bearlike/Assistant (42 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 1,202 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.