canary-savant

canary-savant is a skill for Claude Code from bop-clocktower/canary. It costs 114 tokens per session (3,115 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A test-suite scanner that finds shared state which can make tests depend on their execution order. It checks code without running the tests, with an optional mode that shuffles tests to confirm a suspected leak.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding mutable module globals, missing cleanup, changed shared singletons, and order-dependent test names; optionally confirming the source of the leak.
Why use it?
It helps identify tests that pass only because another test ran before them, which can make CI results unreliable.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the canary plugin — 23 skills, 13 commands, 8 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Finding mutable module globals, missing cleanup, changed shared singletons, and order-dependent test names; optionally confirming the source of the leak.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bop-clocktower/canary/canary-savant
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 bop-clocktower/canary --skill canary-savant
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bop-clocktower/canary

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install canary, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 23 skills, 13 commands, 8 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 114 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,115 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 $0.00114 $0.03115
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.01558
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00623
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00312

Measured 5d ago against content hash f102e8aa7eb2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

canary-savant 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 6 executable files (scripts/cli.mjs, scripts/restoration.mjs, scripts/rules.mjs, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/claude-code/canary-savant/SKILL.md · 234 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 234 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Canary Savant

A test that only passes because of the tests that ran before it is a lie that passes CI. Savant finds shared-state leakage and names the culprit. The static pass is the cheap half that runs on every PR and points at the suspects. The confirming pass (--confirm, opt-in) proves a leak by shuffling the suite under a pinned seed and bisecting the prefix to name the polluter — not just the victim.

Tier-0 by the definition in ADR 0015: deterministic, no network, no agent or LLM. Also no secrets and no dependency on any other skill. Both passes qualify — --confirm runs the suite locally, which needs no network and no model.

Rules (static pass — suspects)

Rule Severity Fires on
SV001-module-mutable-global medium A module-scope mutable (= {}, = [], set(), dict(), list(), or a top-level JS let/var/const object/array) that some line later mutates in place (.append/.add/[...] =/+=/.attr =). Fires on the declaration, the leak's source.
SV002-missing-teardown medium A class/all-scoped setup whose matching teardown is absent: pytest setup_class/setUpClass, or vitest/jest beforeAll. Per-test setup (setUp/setup_method/beforeEach) is excluded - it rebuilds state each test, so it does not leak.
SV003-shared-singleton-mutation low A process-global singleton assigned without restore: os.environ[...] =, sys.modules[...] =, process.env.X =. Reads and == comparisons never fire, and neither does a file that demonstrably restores the global — a same-key (or computed-loop) restore in afterEach/afterAll/teardown/post-yield fixture code or an in-test try/finally, or a write-back from a snapshot saved from that global.
SV004-order-coupled-name low A test name or comment that encodes ordering: test_1_…, a terminal ordinal (test_first(), test_last() - not test_first_match_wins), must run before …, it('… run first').

Read the full file on GitHub · 234 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files 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 Changed · +4 lines · -4 tokens per session f102e8aa7eb2
  2. 10d ago First seen · 230 lines · 118 tokens per session scan A ff87ec55aa94

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canary-savant is a skill published in the GitHub repository bop-clocktower/canary (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 114 tokens to every session and 3,115 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.

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