harness-doctor

harness-doctor is a skill for Claude Code from chrono-meta/forge-harness. It costs 83 tokens per session (9,217 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A diagnostic checker for an AI coding harness: the project’s instruction files, rules, agents, and related structure. It looks for missing files, unnecessary complexity, drift, and broken references.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check harness structure, find stale or duplicate definitions, inspect project-to-hub connections, or run a language-pattern lint check.
Why use it?
It shows where the harness no longer matches the project or has become harder to maintain.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the fh-meta plugin — 38 skills, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to check harness structure, find stale or duplicate definitions, inspect project-to-hub connections, or run a language-pattern lint check.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/chrono-meta/forge-harness/harness-doctor
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 chrono-meta/forge-harness --skill harness-doctor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chrono-meta/forge-harness

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install fh-meta, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 38 skills, 7 agents.

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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Your own site
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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 9,217 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00083 $0.09217
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.04609
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.01843
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00922

Measured 11d ago against content hash 933824cdd9f3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

harness-doctor scanned grade B 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 11d 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

done < <(find "$TARGET/.claude/rules" -name '*.md' 2>/dev/null)
plugins/fh-meta/skills/harness-doctor/SKILL.md · 514 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 514 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

harness-doctor — Harness Structure Diagnosis + Prescription

"A good harness gets simpler over time. If it's getting more complex, something is wrong."

Diagnoses harness structural health across 5 layers and proposes M/S/R prescriptions:

  1. L1 Structural completeness — required file existence (CLAUDE.md · .claudeignore · .claude/)
  2. L2 Complexity — current state vs. simplification principle (line count · unused files · duplicate definitions)
  3. L3 Drift — rule vs. actual pattern mismatch (broken references · stale files · conflicting rules)
  4. L4 Connection diagnosis (FH environment only) — meta hub ↔ field project reference consistency
  5. L5 Pattern analysis (FH environment only) — skill activity · call context appropriateness · effect metrics

Execution Steps

Step 1. Confirm Diagnostic Target

Check current cwd harness file structure and determine if FH environment (tracks/ + knowledge/ + plugins/ all present).

Step 2. L1 — Structural Completeness

File When Missing
CLAUDE.md M-tier — harness entry impossible
.claudeignore S-tier — context-doctor execution recommended
.claude/ directory M-tier (when rule files exist)

Step 2-E. L1-E — ETCLOVG Layer Coverage (functional-layer lens — orthogonal to the file-presence table above)

A harness is not only files; it is seven functional layers (ETCLOVG — arXiv:2606.06324, a component taxonomy orthogonal to FH's 6-axis process model; cross-audit tracks/_audit/session_2026_06_19_harnessfix-etclovg-cross-audit.md). FH adopts only the taxonomy as a coverage lens — not the paper's scoring model. A coverage checklist, not a mandate: not every harness needs all seven (a read-only doc harness needs no Execution or Governance). For each layer ask "is there an asset covering it?"; surface gaps, let the human judge if each is real for this harness.

Orthogonal-sister ledger (same adoption rule — anchor only, no scoring model imported): GRACE (arXiv:2607.09175, cross-audit tracks/_audit/session_2026_07_24_grace-context-rubric.md, operator-local record) — typed-semantic-graph scoped verification for the C (Context) layer's maintenance path: edits validated only within the modified node's local typed neighborhood. Cite when a C-layer gap involves how context updates are verified, not just whether context assets exist.

Read the full file on GitHub · 514 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 11d ago First seen · 514 lines · 83 tokens per session scan B 933824cdd9f3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

harness-doctor is a skill published in the GitHub repository chrono-meta/forge-harness (14 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 9,217 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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