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.
npx skills add chrono-meta/forge-harness --skill return-path-gategit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chrono-meta/forge-harnessWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/chrono-meta/forge-harness/return-path-gate)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/chrono-meta/forge-harness/return-path-gate"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/chrono-meta/forge-harness/return-path-gate/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/chrono-meta/forge-harness/return-path-gate"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/chrono-meta/forge-harness/return-path-gate.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- medium Excessive Agency · line 6 Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00091 | $0.03341 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00036 | $0.01336 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00018 | $0.00668 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00334 |
Grade A, and why
return-path-gate 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 287 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
return-path-gate — Skill Chain Closure Audit
A skill chain is CLOSED when the callee's verdict folds back into the caller's decision logic. A chain is OPEN (fire-and-forget) when the caller dispatches a downstream skill but proceeds independently of the result.
This skill audits §Chains and §Done When sections across SKILL.md files to detect OPEN chains and prescribe specific closures.
Role Separation from harness-doctor
| Dimension | harness-doctor | return-path-gate |
|---|---|---|
| What it checks | Structural completeness (files, references, line counts, drift) | Chain closure compliance (caller/callee verdict handoff) |
| Core question | "Are the required harness files present and consistent?" | "Does the caller wait for the callee's verdict?" |
| Failure mode detected | Missing CLAUDE.md, broken refs, complexity drift | Fire-and-forget chains, unverified CONDITIONAL_PASS conditions |
| Output | L1–L5 structural health report | CLOSED/OPEN chain table with fix prescriptions |
Trigger Phrases
| Phrase | Situation |
|---|---|
| "chain audit", "chain closure audit" | Full scan of all skill chains in plugins/ |
| "return-path check", "return-path gate" | Explicit compliance audit |
| "fire-and-forget detection", "fire-and-forget chain" | Targeting known anti-pattern |
| "skill chain compliance" | Pre-flight check before pipeline execution |
| "does this skill wait for verdict" | Single-skill targeted check |
| "check chains in [skill-name]" | Scoped audit on a named skill |
/return-path-gate |
Explicit call |
Audit Scope Options
| Flag | Scope | When to use |
|---|---|---|
--skill [name] |
Single named skill | Targeted check during development |
--all |
All SKILL.md files under plugins/ |
Full compliance sweep |
--pr |
Skills changed relative to origin/main |
Pre-PR gate mode (worktree-aware) |
| (default) | Modified + newly added SKILL.md files in working tree | Pre-commit gate mode |
Execution Steps
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 287 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A c7d8af4eb22c
return-path-gate is a skill published in the GitHub repository chrono-meta/forge-harness (30 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 3,341 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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