approve-exempt

approve-exempt is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from harness/harness-skills. It costs 168 tokens per session (5,951 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for approving pending Harness STO security exemptions, also called waivers, for a project, pipeline, or target. Harness STO is a security-testing system, and an exemption allows a selected security issue to be accepted at a defined scope.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to approve pending security exemptions and, when required, elevate their effective scope to the project, organization, or account level.
Why use it?
It explains how to approve one or several pending exemptions while keeping the listing scope separate from the scope where the approval will apply. An approval can remain local or be widened to an organization or account.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to approve pending security exemptions and, when required, elevate their effective scope to the project, organization, or account level.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 168 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,951 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 264
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 47
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00168 $0.05951
Opus 5 $0.00084 $0.02975
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.01190
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00595

Measured 11d ago against content hash 3ad2b844f6c6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

approve-exempt 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/approve-exempt/SKILL.md · 432 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 432 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Approve Exemption

Approve one or more Pending STO security exemptions. This skill covers the approval workflow after someone has requested an exemption (see /exempt-vuln for creation).

Pending scope is only PROJECT, PIPELINE, or TARGET. Exemptions are requested at project, pipeline, or target scope only (All Issues → project; Vulnerabilities tab → project, pipeline, or target). STO does not create pending requests at org or account scope — those wider scopes exist only after elevation on approve (body.scope ORG or ACCOUNT). You will not see scope: ORG or scope: ACCOUNT on rows from status: Pending in normal flows. If a list row shows ORG/ACCOUNT, it is already approved/widened (re-approve or a different workflow), not a fresh pending request this skill targets.

Harness exposes two different "scope" ideas — do not mix them up:

Concept What it controls How you use it
Listing scope Which project's exemption queue you read Always list at project scope. Never pass resource_scope='account' or 'org' to harness_list.
Approval scope Where the exemption becomes effective after approval Passed as body.scope on harness_executeCURRENT, PROJECT, ORG, or ACCOUNT.

Users almost always say approve, even when they want org- or account-wide coverage. Treat "approve for org", "org-wide", and "at account level" as approve with elevation — the MCP server routes those to the promote endpoint internally. You never need a separate action='promote' call; always use action='approve' with the right body.scope.

Keep the Harness UI out of the loop. Do not ask the user to copy issue titles, CVEs, or exemption IDs from the platform. Your default opening move is to list pending exemptions in chat, show a numbered table, report total, and let them pick by row number (or narrow with search if they volunteer a keyword). Pagination surfaces more rows on request — you never dump the full queue at once.

Read the full file on GitHub · 432 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 · 432 lines · 168 tokens per session scan A 3ad2b844f6c6

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approve-exempt is a skill published in the GitHub repository harness/harness-skills (105 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 168 tokens to every session and 5,951 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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