agent-self-assessment

A readiness check for complex coding-agent work, especially work involving high impact, outside services, multiple agents, or long-running actions. It examines available tools, permissions, missing information, risks, and how the result will be verified.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for planning complex software changes, external integrations, autonomous tasks, and work where mistakes are costly. It checks capability coverage, credentials, policy limits, environment status, and the verification plan.
Why use it?
It helps reveal before or during a task whether the assistant has the required access and safeguards. It can support choosing between proceeding, narrowing the work, asking for input, or doing a safer test first.

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/codeinfinity1/stram/agent-self-assessment
Any agent
npx skills add CodeInfinity1/Stram --skill agent-self-assessment
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CodeInfinity1/Stram

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 664 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00048 $0.00664
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00332
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00133
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00066

Measured 2d ago against content hash b5dce37429ef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-self-assessment 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 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.

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.

skills/agent-core/agent-self-assessment/SKILL.md · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Self Assessment

Purpose

Create an explicit readiness check before the assistant commits to complex action. This skill combines external reference agent audit and self-assessment ideas with Stram capability, tool, policy, and cognition surfaces.

When To Use

Use for high-impact tasks, broad architecture changes, long autonomous runs, external integrations, multi-agent work, or when the assistant is unsure whether it has enough tools and context.

Inputs And Evidence

  • Capability surface and tool descriptions.
  • Current workspace state and relevant files.
  • Model provider readiness.
  • Safety policy and approval requirements.
  • Known blockers, memory, and environment constraints.

Tool Map

  • capability_surface
  • tool_search
  • tool_describe
  • cognitive_self_review
  • cognitive_environment_status
  • system_status
  • plugin_catalog
  • channel_catalog

Workflow

  1. Clarify the objective and expected end state.
  2. Inspect capability surface and relevant tool schemas.
  3. Identify missing credentials, missing tools, policy gates, and high-risk actions.
  4. Decide whether to proceed, narrow scope, ask for input, or run a safer dry run.
  5. Define verification evidence before execution.
  6. Reassess after failures or surprising tool output.

Safety And Boundaries

  • Do not use assessment as a substitute for doing safe, obvious work.
  • Do not downplay risks when tools can affect external systems.
  • If a model/provider is unavailable, stop or use explicit tool commands only; do not invent deterministic intent handling.

Safety And Approval

  • Treat self-assessment as advisory evidence, not permission to bypass approval gates.
  • If the assessment identifies external-visible, destructive, privileged, or privacy-sensitive actions, require the relevant tool approval before execution.
  • Do not downgrade risk because a task is familiar; use current tool schemas, provider status, credentials, and workspace state.
  • Report model-unavailable or tool-unavailable states honestly instead of substituting brittle keyword rules.

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 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 · 80 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A b5dce37429ef

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agent-self-assessment is a skill published in the GitHub repository CodeInfinity1/Stram (10 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 664 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.