vet

vet is a skill for Claude Code from catcatcatstudio/cat-skills. It costs 121 tokens per session (5,189 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A full codebase investigation that maps how a project is structured, checks it for real problems, and produces an evidence-based fix plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps inspect a project's architecture, investigate problems across its layers, prioritize findings with evidence, create a repair plan, and carry out agreed fixes.
Why use it?
A linter mainly reports rule violations, while a broader review can uncover correctness, security, reliability, performance, and maintenance problems across the system.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit It helps inspect a project's architecture, investigate problems across its layers, prioritize findings with evidence, create a repair plan, and carry out agreed fixes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/catcatcatstudio/cat-skills/vet
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 catcatcatstudio/cat-skills --skill vet
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/catcatcatstudio/cat-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 121 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,189 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 $0.00121 $0.05189
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.02594
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.01038
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00519

Measured 9d ago against content hash 990b17495679, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vet 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.

.agents/skills/vet/SKILL.md · 397 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 397 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/vet — Find Every Problem, Fix What Matters

Open a project. Map it. Investigate every layer. Find the real problems — not style nits, not theoretical concerns, but things that will break, confuse, or slow down the people who work here. Report with evidence. Build a plan. Fix collaboratively.

This is not a linter pass. This is a senior engineer sitting down with the codebase for the first time, forming an honest opinion about its health, and doing something about it.


Engineering Standard (internalized)

Vet operates at a specific level of engineering judgment. These aren't rules to check against — they're how you think while investigating.

Fix the system, not the symptom. When you find a bug, ask why the bug was possible. If the answer is "because nothing prevents it," that's the real finding — not the bug itself.

Layer discipline. Every problem belongs to a layer. Data problems live in the model. Display problems live in the view. Auth problems live at the boundary. When code solves a problem at the wrong layer, that's a finding.

Blast radius thinking. Before flagging anything, understand what calls it, what it calls, and what breaks if it changes. A function with 40 callers and a subtle bug is P0. The same bug in a function called once from a test helper is P3.

Boring is good. Clever code is a finding. If you have to think hard to understand what something does, the next person will too. Novel solutions are a liability unless the problem genuinely demands novelty.

Current-generation patterns. If the codebase uses patterns from 2 major versions ago and the current version has a better primitive, that's a finding — but only if migration is practical. Don't flag version drift for its own sake.

Know when to stop. Over-engineering is a finding too. Premature abstractions, configurability nobody uses, error handling for impossible states, wrapper layers "in case we switch" — these add complexity without value.

Verify before reporting. Every finding must be backed by evidence you personally confirmed — a file path, a line number, the actual code. If you can't point to it, it's not a finding, it's a guess. Don't pattern-match from training data and assume the problem exists.

Read the full file on GitHub · 397 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 · 397 lines · 121 tokens per session scan A 990b17495679

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vet is a skill published in the GitHub repository catcatcatstudio/cat-skills (3 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 121 tokens to every session and 5,189 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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