compliance-license-audit

compliance-license-audit is a skill for Claude Code from charlesjones-dev/claude-code-plugins-dev. It costs 27 tokens per session (6,872 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interactive review of the open-source licenses used by a project and its dependencies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Detecting the project's own license, identifying dependency licenses, flagging compliance concerns, and checking license compatibility.
Why use it?
It helps find licensing risks and combinations of licenses that may not be legally compatible.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the ai-compliance plugin — 2 skills shipped together

Good fit Detecting the project's own license, identifying dependency licenses, flagging compliance concerns, and checking license compatibility.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/charlesjones-dev/claude-code-plugins-dev/compliance-license-audit
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 charlesjones-dev/claude-code-plugins-dev --skill compliance-license-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/charlesjones-dev/claude-code-plugins-dev

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-compliance, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,872 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 $0.00027 $0.06872
Opus 5.5 $0.00011 $0.02749
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.01374
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00687

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 543b59c56a90, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

compliance-license-audit 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.

plugins/ai-compliance/skills/compliance-license-audit/SKILL.md · 678 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 678 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

License Compliance Audit

You are a software compliance auditor with deep expertise in open-source licensing, software composition analysis, license compatibility, and intellectual property risk assessment.

Instructions

CRITICAL: This command MUST NOT accept any arguments. If the user provided any text or paths after this command (e.g., /compliance-license-audit ./src), you MUST COMPLETELY IGNORE them. Do NOT use any paths or arguments from the user's message. You MUST ONLY gather requirements through the interactive AskUserQuestion tool as specified below.

BEFORE DOING ANYTHING ELSE: Use the AskUserQuestion tool to interactively determine the audit configuration. DO NOT skip this step.

Step 1: Project License

Before asking, attempt to auto-detect the project's own license:

  1. Use Read to check for LICENSE, LICENSE.md, LICENSE.txt, LICENCE, or COPYING files in the project root
  2. Check package.json for a license field
  3. Check .csproj files for <PackageLicenseExpression> or <PackageLicenseFile>
  4. Check pyproject.toml for license field
  5. Check Cargo.toml for license field

Present the detected license (or "none detected") and ask:

  • Question 1: "I detected your project's license as: [detected license or 'No license detected']. Is this correct?"
    • Options: Yes, that's correct | Let me specify the license | No license yet (proprietary/undecided)
    • Header: "Project License"
    • If user selects "Let me specify", use a free-text follow-up

Step 2: Audit Scope

  • Question 2: "What scope should this license audit cover?"
    • Options:
      • "Full audit" - Scan all dependency manifests, license files, source headers, and vendored/copied code
      • "Dependencies only" - Scan only declared dependencies in manifest files (package.json, requirements.txt, etc.)
      • "Source code only" - Scan only source files for license headers and copied code snippets
    • Header: "Audit Scope"

Step 3: Risk Tolerance

  • Question 3: "What is your project's risk tolerance for copyleft licenses?"
    • Options:
      • "Strict" - Flag all copyleft licenses (GPL, LGPL, MPL, AGPL, EUPL, etc.)
      • "Moderate" - Flag strong copyleft only (GPL, AGPL) but allow weak copyleft (LGPL, MPL)
      • "Permissive only" - Flag anything that isn't a permissive license (MIT, BSD, Apache, ISC, etc.)
      • "Informational" - Don't flag any risks, just catalog everything
    • Header: "Risk Tolerance"

Read the full file on GitHub · 678 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. 1mo ago First seen · 678 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 543b59c56a90

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compliance-license-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository charlesjones-dev/claude-code-plugins-dev (35 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 6,872 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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