agent-ready

A setup tool that makes a codebase easier for AI agents to understand and modify. It creates project documentation, quality checks, and recommendations for skills matched to the project’s technology.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scaffold AGENTS.md, ARCHITECTURE.md, and docs, install quality gates, and choose a documentation or architecture setup mode.
Why use it?
It gives agents clearer project context and adds checks intended to catch regressions. It can also use an existing readiness assessment to suggest where to start.

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/dgalarza/claude-code-workflows/agent-ready
Any agent
npx skills add dgalarza/claude-code-workflows --skill agent-ready
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dgalarza/claude-code-workflows

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,843 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 $0.00100 $0.08843
Opus 5 $0.00050 $0.04422
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.01769
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00884

Measured 2d ago against content hash b2765f91924f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-ready 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (assets/quality-gate-test-template.sh, assets/quality-gate.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/agent-ready/skills/agent-ready/SKILL.md · 713 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 713 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent-Ready

Scaffold the documentation and structural artifacts that make a codebase legible to AI agents. This skill is the remediation companion to codebase-readiness -- it does not score, it builds.


Startup: Check for Prior Assessment

Before entering any mode, check if AGENT_READY_ASSESSMENT.md exists in the project root.

If it exists:

  1. Read it and extract dimension scores
  2. Auto-suggest a mode based on the weakest dimensions:
    • Documentation & Context < 50 -> suggest claude-md first
    • Architecture Clarity < 50 -> suggest architecture first
    • Both < 50 -> suggest scaffold (full setup)
    • Quality gates at L0-L2 in the snapshot (or Code Clarity / Change Safety < 50 with no debt gate in the evidence) -> suggest quality-gates
  3. Tell the user: "I found an existing assessment. Based on your scores, I recommend starting with [mode]. Want to proceed, or choose a different mode?"

If it does not exist, proceed with mode detection.


Mode Detection

Determine which mode to run based on user intent:

User Intent Mode Trigger Phrases
Full documentation setup scaffold "make this agent-ready", "full setup", "scaffold docs"
Generate architecture doc architecture "create ARCHITECTURE.md", "architecture doc", "codemap"
Create/refactor AGENTS.md agents-md "set up AGENTS.md", "create AGENTS.md", "refactor AGENTS.md"
Install regression-aware quality gates quality-gates "set up quality gates", "block new complexity", "baseline our tech debt", "stop agents adding dead code", "regression gate"
Check existing artifacts audit "audit docs", "are my docs up to date", "check agent readiness"

If intent is ambiguous, ask the user which mode they want.


Startup: Recommend Project Skills

After selecting a mode and before making project changes, read references/recommended-skills.md and inspect the repository for its documented framework signals.

Read the full file on GitHub · 713 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 · 713 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A b2765f91924f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agent-ready is a skill published in the GitHub repository dgalarza/claude-code-workflows (59 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 8,843 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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