exercise

A workflow for checking a completed change through real user actions after automated tests have run. It chooses suitable checks for web apps, desktop apps, command-line tools, installers, documentation, or static sites and reports pass or fail.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to exercise a changed product through terminal commands, HTTP requests, browser checks when available, or documented commands for generated output. It is an independent behavioral gate, not just a code review.
Why use it?
Passing tests does not always prove that a user can complete the intended task. This check verifies the complete workflow and records evidence for each claim.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/brolag/neural-claude-code/exercise
Any agent
npx skills add brolag/neural-claude-code --skill exercise
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brolag/neural-claude-code

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,005 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00066 $0.01005
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00502
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00201
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00101

Measured 2d ago against content hash b8b06cc6ec06, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

exercise scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 2d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

allowed-tools: Bash(npm *), Bash(npx *), Bash(pytest *), Bash(cargo *), Bash(go *), Bash(python *), Bash(node *), Bash(curl *), Read, Glob, Grep
skills/exercise/SKILL.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Exercise

Verify that the changed product works for a user. Tests answer whether code checks pass. Exercise answers whether the promised workflow is usable end to end.

This skill is the Claude Code port of the Neural Codex exercise gate. Same contract, slash invocation. Default backend is CLI/HTTP so the kit runs with no extra MCP.

1. Select the backend

Detect the changed surface:

  • CLI, TUI, installer, or scripts: terminal interaction
  • web application or HTTP service: curl against local endpoints by default. Isolated browser automation only if MCP tools are present and the assertion is visual
  • desktop application: computer-use automation if available
  • documentation-only workflow: follow the documented commands in an isolated fixture and inspect the rendered or generated result

If browser or computer-use MCP is NOT available, do not block. Fall back to the test suite + CLI/HTTP path and say so in the report.

Ask for launch details only when they cannot be derived safely from repository scripts or documentation.

2. Run automated tests first

Detect and run the repository's normal test command. Record pass/fail counts and warnings. A failing suite makes the exercise verdict FAIL. Do not hide it behind a successful manual scenario.

If no test suite exists, record Tests: none found as a caveat.

3. Derive concrete scenarios

When --spec <plan> is supplied, turn its when/requires/ensures acceptance into one to three user flows. Otherwise derive flows from the user request and changed documentation.

Before reading the plan or selecting an evidence directory, resolve the repository root, the repository's plans/ directory, and the candidate spec. Require os.path.commonpath([candidate, plans_root]) == plans_root and reject escaping symlinks. Reject ../../outside/plan.md, plans/../outside/plan.md, /tmp/external-plan.md, and equivalent traversal. Without --spec, resolve exercise-evidence/ beneath the repository root and apply the same containment check before writing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 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. 2d ago First seen · 96 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A b8b06cc6ec06

Subscribe to this mod's changes

exercise is a skill published in the GitHub repository brolag/neural-claude-code (11 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 1,005 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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