exempt-vuln

exempt-vuln is a skill for Claude Code from harness/harness-ai. It costs 184 tokens per session (6,799 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of exempt-vuln, Apache-2.0.

A skill for creating Harness security exemptions, also called waivers, for reported vulnerabilities. Harness STO is Harness’s security-testing system for code, dependencies, running applications, secrets, containers, and infrastructure settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it from a pipeline execution’s Vulnerabilities tab or from the project-wide All Issues page. It helps exempt one or more findings with the scope allowed by that view.
Why use it?
It gives teams a documented way to accept a vulnerability temporarily or under a defined project, pipeline, or target scope.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the harness plugin — 55 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it from a pipeline execution’s Vulnerabilities tab or from the project-wide All Issues page. It helps exempt one or more findings with the scope allowed by that view.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/harness/harness-ai/exempt-vuln
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 harness/harness-ai --skill exempt-vuln
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/harness/harness-ai

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install harness, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 55 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 184 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,799 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00184 $0.06799
Opus 5 $0.00092 $0.03400
Sonnet 5 $0.00037 $0.01360
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00680

Measured 9d ago against content hash 51b5f8df9b3d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

exempt-vuln 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 9d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to exempt-vuln — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/claude/skills/exempt-vuln/SKILL.md · 518 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 518 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Exempt Vulnerability

Create a security exemption (waiver) for one or more Harness STO vulnerabilities. STO has two places a user can request an exemption from, and each one allows a different set of scopes:

Where the user is in the Harness UI Scopes they can request
Vulnerabilities tab of a specific pipeline execution This Project, This Pipeline, This Target
All Issues page (the project-wide baseline) This Project only

The reason for the difference is simple: rows on the All Issues page are aggregated across executions and don't carry an execution_id, so the backend has no pipeline or target context to attach a narrower scope to. Org- and Account-scoped exemptions are not created here at all; they're produced later by approving an existing exemption at a higher scope (via harness_execute resource_type=security_exemption action=approve body={scope:'ORG'|'ACCOUNT'}), which is outside the scope of this skill.

Instructions

Step 1 — Find out where the user is starting from

Ask the user, in plain language:

Which view are you in?

  1. The Vulnerabilities tab for a specific pipeline execution, or
  2. The All Issues page (the project-wide baseline view).

If you have the URL handy, just paste it — I'll pull out the org, project, and execution from it automatically.

You also need:

  • The org and project, unless they're already in session defaults or you can read them from a pasted URL.
  • For the Vulnerabilities tab path: the execution ID, or any Harness URL that contains one.

A pasted Harness UI URL is always the fastest route. The MCP url parameter auto-extracts every identifier in the path, so the user does not have to type anything else. The shapes to recognise:

URL the user pastes What it tells you Which path
…/sto/executions/{executionId}/pipeline The Vulnerabilities tab of one execution Vulnerabilities path — extracts org_id, project_id, execution_id
…/pipeline/orgs/{org}/projects/{project}/pipelines/{pipelineId}/executions/{executionId}/… A pipeline execution detail page Vulnerabilities path — also extracts pipeline_id
…/sto/issues or …/sto/issues/{issueId} The All Issues page All Issues path — extracts org_id, project_id only

Read the full file on GitHub · 518 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. 9d ago First seen · 518 lines · 184 tokens per session scan A 51b5f8df9b3d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

exempt-vuln is a skill published in the GitHub repository harness/harness-ai (19 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 184 tokens to every session and 6,799 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to exempt-vuln, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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