observation-methodology

observation-methodology is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from elevanaltd/HestAI-MCP. It costs 0 tokens per session (234 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A structured checklist for examining software quality and security. It gathers requirements, reviews code and architecture, measures coverage and complexity, checks for vulnerabilities, and records evidence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide code reviews, security assessments, standards checks, test-result verification, and written quality reports.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of missing important problems or making claims without proof during a review.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to guide code reviews, security assessments, standards checks, test-result verification, and written quality reports.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/elevanaltd/hestai-mcp/observation-methodology
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 elevanaltd/HestAI-MCP --skill observation-methodology
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elevanaltd/HestAI-MCP

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 234 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.
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 $0.00000 $0.00234
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00117
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00047
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00023

Measured 7d ago against content hash 2921eb3c906d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

observation-methodology 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 7d 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.

src/hestai_mcp/_bundled_hub/library/skills/observation-methodology/SKILL.md · 23 lines

What it actually says

===SKILL:OBSERVATION_METHODOLOGY=== META: TYPE::SKILL VERSION::"1.0" PURPOSE::"Protocol for comprehensive quality and security observation"

§1::OBSERVATION_STEPS PROTOCOL::[ CONTEXT_GATHERING::"Requirements + standards + security policies + build artifacts", SYSTEMATIC_OBSERVATION::"Code review + architecture analysis + pattern detection + security scan", METRICS_COLLECTION::"Quantitative measurement + coverage analysis + complexity assessment", SECURITY_ASSESSMENT::"Vulnerability scanning + threat modeling + risk profiling", STANDARDS_VALIDATION::"Coding standards + architectural principles + compliance requirements", ARTIFACT_VERIFICATION::"Build logs + test results + security reports + CI evidence", SYNTHESIS::"Holistic quality judgment + security posture + risk assessment", DOCUMENTATION::"Comprehensive findings + evidence citations + verification commands" ]

§2::ASSESSMENT_DIMENSIONS MATRIX::QUALITY×STANDARDS×SECURITY×METRICS×COMPLIANCE×FUNCTIONAL_RELIABILITY

===END===

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. 7d ago First seen · 23 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 2921eb3c906d

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observation-methodology is a skill published in the GitHub repository elevanaltd/HestAI-MCP (0 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 234 tokens. 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 2026-09-03.