assess

assess is a skill for Claude Code from jhlee0409/omni-harness-kit. It costs 129 tokens per session (1,027 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only codebase audit that ranks likely maintenance problems using signals such as file size, change frequency, missing tests, and lint issues. It produces a prioritized list of separate fixes rather than changing the code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when inheriting a project, deciding what to refactor first, or preparing focused maintenance pull requests.
Why use it?
It shows where maintenance work is most likely to help before a cleanup or refactoring effort begins.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the harness-kit plugin — 18 skills, 28 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when inheriting a project, deciding what to refactor first, or preparing focused maintenance pull requests.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add jhlee0409/omni-harness-kit
Claude Code
/plugin install harness-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install harness-kit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills, 28 agents, 2 hooks.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 129 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,027 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 $0.00129 $0.01027
Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.00513
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00205
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00103

Measured 12d ago against content hash c3a32b48545d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

assess 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (assess.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/assess/SKILL.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

assess — rank maintenance risk, propose discrete fixes

Give a codebase a stack-parameterized maintainability snapshot so the next change (by a human or an agent) lands where it hurts least. This is deliberately NOT a quality daemon: it is a one-shot, on-demand, read-only audit that outputs a ranked fix list, not a stored score, grade, dashboard, or trend line.

Scope boundary (read this first)

The kit ships no measurement / self-evolving subsystem by design (introspect SKILL §3, Tier 3). This skill is compatible with that decision because it is a human-invoked one-shot assessment, not a generated runtime metrics layer: it persists nothing, runs only when asked, and its output is discrete PRs a person chooses — never an automatic remediation loop or a number the harness optimizes. If you find yourself wanting to store the score or run this on every commit, stop: that is the rejected metrics layer.

Honest limit: there is no validated universal "AI-maintainability" metric. The signals below are structural proxies; hotspots (churn × size) have the strongest maintenance-pain evidence in the literature, static-analysis smells the weakest (they need size/churn controls). Report proxies, not verdicts.

1. Run the engine

bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/assess/assess.sh" <target>

It reuses introspect/detect.sh for the stack, then emits JSON:

  • signals.hotspots — files ranked by size × 90-day churn (the primary signal).
  • signals.size_outliers — files ≥ 400 lines (hard to change safely).
  • signals.test — is there a runnable verify command + any test files? gap: true means an agent can't cheaply prove a change here.
  • signals.lint_debt — the stack linter's finding count, only if it's installed.
  • signals.duplication — candidate clone blocks (8+ identical normalized lines seen in ≥2 places), with locations; conservative, so treat as leads not verdicts.
  • caveats — always surface these to the reader.

The engine is deterministic and cheap (git + wc + a rolling-hash clone scan + optional installed linter). It does NOT cover dependency cycles or cognitive complexity yet — say so; don't imply it did.

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 lines

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. 12d ago First seen · 86 lines · 129 tokens per session scan A c3a32b48545d

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assess is a skill published in the GitHub repository jhlee0409/omni-harness-kit (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 129 tokens to every session and 1,027 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.

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