harness-review

harness-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from harnessworks/harness-starter-kit. It costs 42 tokens per session (246 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only review skill that examines current code changes from a critical harness-engineering perspective.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reviewing a change set and reporting findings by severity without editing files.
Why use it?
It helps catch bugs, unsafe source-of-truth changes, unnecessary scope, missing checks, stale documentation, and missing durable notes before completion.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: argument-hint in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the agent-skills plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for reviewing a change set and reporting findings by severity without editing files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/harnessworks/harness-starter-kit/harness-review
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 harnessworks/harness-starter-kit --skill harness-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/harnessworks/harness-starter-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for harness-review

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/harnessworks/harness-starter-kit/harness-review/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/harnessworks/harness-starter-kit/harness-review)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/harnessworks/harness-starter-kit/harness-review"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/harnessworks/harness-starter-kit/harness-review/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for harness-review

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/harnessworks/harness-starter-kit/harness-review"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/harnessworks/harness-starter-kit/harness-review.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 246 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 $0.00042 $0.00246
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00123
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00049
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00025

Measured 10d ago against content hash 54241070d125, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

harness-review 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 10d 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.

agent-skills/skills/harness-review/SKILL.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

Harness Review

Challenge the current change set before completion.

Steps

  1. Read ../../references/package-contract.md.
  2. Read ../../references/review-workflow.md.
  3. If ./harness-starter-kit/commands/harness-review.md exists in the target, prefer that canonical workflow.
  4. Inspect the current diff and relevant harness guidance.
  5. If the request includes sub-agent, use a read-only reviewer subagent only when the active runtime permits it. Otherwise fall back and report why.
  6. Lead with findings by severity. If there are no actionable findings, say so clearly and name residual test gaps or risks.

Boundaries

  • Do not modify files unless the user explicitly asks to apply fixes after the review.
  • Prioritize bugs, source-of-truth risks, overreach, missing checks, stale docs, and durable-memory gaps.
Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 29 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 54241070d125

Subscribe to this mod's changes

harness-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository harnessworks/harness-starter-kit (113 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 246 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.