hk-follow-breadcrumb

hk-follow-breadcrumb is a skill for Claude Code from deepklarity/harness-kit. It costs 172 tokens per session (1,211 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-exploration method that follows a documented path through a project before searching the codebase. The path explains how a feature or piece of data moves through the system and which files are involved.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to trace how a feature works, find where a behavior happens, identify involved files, understand data flow, or investigate a specific bug or test area.
Why use it?
It gives you an existing map of the relevant workflow before you investigate. This can make debugging, testing, and understanding unfamiliar code faster and more consistent.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to trace how a feature works, find where a behavior happens, identify involved files, understand data flow, or investigate a specific bug or test area.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/deepklarity/harness-kit/hk-follow-breadcrumb
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 deepklarity/harness-kit --skill hk-follow-breadcrumb
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/deepklarity/harness-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 172 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,211 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 $0.00172 $0.01211
Opus 5 $0.00086 $0.00606
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.00242
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00121

Measured 11d ago against content hash ca6553d2e8d4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hk-follow-breadcrumb 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 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.

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.

.claude/skills/hk-follow-breadcrumb/SKILL.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/hk-follow-breadcrumb — Breadcrumb-First Exploration

This skill is about reading before searching. The docs/breadcrumb_analysis/ directory contains end-to-end workflow traces that have already been carefully researched and documented. Loading a relevant breadcrumb takes seconds and costs a fraction of what spawning exploration subagents costs. The breadcrumb docs are maintained alongside code changes, so they're the most reliable "map" of how flows work.

Context

<exploration_context> $ARGUMENTS </exploration_context>

If the context above is empty, look at what the user is asking about in the conversation and infer the exploration target.

Step 1: Load the index

Read docs/breadcrumb_analysis/_INDEX.md. This is the single source of truth for what's been documented.

The index has two sections that matter:

  1. Flows table — lists every breadcrumb folder and what it traces. Scan this to find which breadcrumb(s) cover the user's question.
  2. Quick navigation — maps common symptoms (e.g., "task stuck in IN_PROGRESS", "screenshots not showing") directly to the right DEBUG.md. If the user describes a symptom, check here first.

Step 2: Match the question to breadcrumbs

Compare what the user is asking against the index entries. There are three outcomes:

A. Direct hit — a breadcrumb covers exactly this flow

Load the relevant docs in order of increasing detail:

  1. FLOW.md — Read this first. It's the high-level map (30-second read). Shows the path data takes, which files/functions are involved at each hop, and where branches occur. This alone often answers "where does X happen?" questions.

  2. DETAILS.md — Read this if the user needs function-level specifics: what data goes in/out, what conditionals change behavior, what side effects exist. This answers "how does X work?" questions.

  3. DEBUG.md — Read this if the user is debugging something broken, or wants to know how to test a flow. Contains log locations, grep patterns, quick commands, env vars, and common breakpoints. This answers "how do I debug/test X?" questions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 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. 11d ago First seen · 101 lines · 172 tokens per session scan A ca6553d2e8d4

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hk-follow-breadcrumb is a skill published in the GitHub repository deepklarity/harness-kit (97 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 172 tokens to every session and 1,211 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-08-30.

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