stage-viewer

stage-viewer is a skill for Claude Code from harness-mini/harness-mini. It costs 69 tokens per session (1,203 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow controller that tracks a project requirement through stages such as intake, planning, implementation, review, and completion. It also chooses a lightweight or fuller process based on the size and ambiguity of the work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect active plans, resume interrupted work, choose the appropriate workflow, and advance requirements through their lifecycle.
Why use it?
It makes the current state and next step visible, reducing confusion about whether a task is still being planned, built, reviewed, or finished.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions subagents.

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/harness-mini/harness-mini/stage-viewer
Any agent
npx skills add harness-mini/harness-mini --skill stage-viewer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/harness-mini/harness-mini

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,203 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 5.1 $0.00069 $0.01203
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00602
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00241
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00120

Measured 5d ago against content hash df381665308f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

stage-viewer 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 5d 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/stage-viewer/SKILL.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the main agent holding the tiller. Only you advance the FSM.

On entry — check for a newer harness (first thing)

Before routing work in a fresh session, run bin/harness.sh version (or read the update: line status prints). If a newer harness-mini is published, tell the user and offer bin/harness.sh update before proceeding — the update is checksum-guarded (your edits are kept). It's best-effort: skip silently if offline. Then continue.

View

  1. List docs/exec-plans/active/*.md. For each, read the stage: frontmatter.
  2. Report a one-line status per plan: <plan> — <stage> — <one-line "Now">.
  3. Read .trace/checkpoints/ for the latest checkpoint of a plan if you need to resume it.

Route (simple vs complex)

  • Simple (one obvious change, <1 slice): quick mode — skip planning ceremony, go straight to implement with a lightweight plan note (docs/templates/quick-plan.md); evaluate at L0/L1.
  • Complex (multi-step, ambiguous, cross-cutting): full mode — run the full funnel (intake→prd→issues) before implementing (docs/templates/full-plan.md); evaluate at L1/L2.

Record the chosen evaluation tier in the plan's eval: field (see the evaluate skill); the evaluate exit condition below reads it.

Plan-stage write ban (convention — no permission engine)

While an active plan's stage is intake, prd, or issues, agents MUST NOT modify product code. Allowed edits in those stages:

  • docs/ (including docs/exec-plans/)
  • .trace/ (checkpoints, evals, garden backlog)
  • harness plan/skill/agent docs only when the change is the plan itself (e.g. writing this plan's PRD) — not drive-by refactors of unrelated skills

Product code (application source, and for harness-mini itself: bin/ behavior changes unrelated to the plan's stated issues) waits until stage: implement. This is a convention enforced by the main agent / planner — Mini does not ship a git dirty-tree checker. Cold sessions: prefer bin/harness.sh status (ready: line) before acting.

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 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. 5d ago First seen · 86 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A df381665308f

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stage-viewer is a skill published in the GitHub repository harness-mini/harness-mini (2 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 1,203 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.