exempt-vuln

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

A tool for creating security exemptions in Harness for reported vulnerabilities. A security exemption, also called a waiver, records an approved reason for allowing a finding from code, dependency, web, secret, container, or infrastructure scans.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to request exemptions for one or more findings from a pipeline execution or from a project-wide issues view, with the scope supported by that view.
Why use it?
It provides a documented way to handle vulnerabilities that cannot be fixed immediately instead of leaving the scan result unexplained.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to request exemptions for one or more findings from a pipeline execution or from a project-wide issues view, with the scope supported by that view.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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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. 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 245
    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 315
    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 $0.00184 $0.06799
Opus 5 $0.00092 $0.03400
Sonnet 5 $0.00037 $0.01360
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00680

Measured 12d ago against content hash 51b5f8df9b3d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 12d 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/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. 12d 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-skills (106 stars, last pushed 3d 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. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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