explain-flag

explain-flag is a skill for Claude Code from harness/harness-skills. It costs 136 tokens per session (2,596 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A read-only explanation tool for one Harness FME feature flag. It describes the flag's purpose, default behavior, and targeting in each environment, where an environment is a deployment context such as testing or production.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to answer what a named flag does, check its default rule, compare environment settings, and resolve an unclear flag name.
Why use it?
It removes the need to inspect several flag definitions to understand what users receive right now. It also highlights differences between environments without changing the flag.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the harness-fme plugin — 16 skills shipped together , and of harness-skills

Good fit Use it to answer what a named flag does, check its default rule, compare environment settings, and resolve an unclear flag name.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install harness-fme, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 136 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,596 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 $0.00136 $0.02596
Opus 5.5 $0.00054 $0.01038
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00027 $0.00519
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00260

Measured yesterday against content hash 2fb85e1caa30, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

explain-flag 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 yesterday.

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.

skills/fme/explain-flag/SKILL.md · 144 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 144 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Explain Flag

Answer "what does this flag do right now" for one named flag: its purpose, what serves by default, and how targeting differs (or doesn't) across environments - without touching anything.

Tools

Works through the Harness MCP server or the Harness CLI; names are from tool-map.md.

Operation MCP CLI
List environments harness_list · fme_environment · filters: { offset: 0, limit: 100 } · compact: false harness list fme_environment --json
List flags harness_list · fme_feature_flag · size: 50 · filters: { name, offset: 0 } · compact: false harness list feature_flag --search <substring> --json
Get flag harness_get · fme_feature_flag · params: { feature_flag_name } harness get feature_flag <name> --json
Get definition harness_get · fme_feature_flag_definition · params: { feature_flag_name, environment_id } harness get feature_flag:definition <flag> --env <env-id> --json
List definitions harness_list · fme_feature_flag_definition · params: { feature_flag_name } · filters: { offset: 0, limit: 100 } · compact: false harness list feature_flag:definition <flag> --json

Instructions

Step 1: Resolve scope

Get org_id + project_id if not already known. Don't use the deprecated workspace_id: the Step 4 definition list is Harness-native only.

List environments up front, since Step 4 needs every environment. Complete the inventory per pagination, using explicit MCP filters.limit: 100; a full page whose total equals its length can be a fallback, so fetch another page — one call is not guaranteed to return all environments, and an environment you never fetched is unseen, not confirmed nonexistent; don't diff Step 4 against a partial list. Keep the full list with each environment's isProduction: Step 4 diffs against it for missing definitions, and Step 6 labels production environments ("is X on" questions almost always mean "in production").

Read the full file on GitHub · 144 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. yesterday Changed · +1 lines 2fb85e1caa30
  2. 9d ago First seen · 143 lines · 136 tokens per session scan A 635e1c9ea726

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explain-flag is a skill published in the GitHub repository harness/harness-skills (117 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 136 tokens to every session and 2,596 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-07.

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