assess

assess is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jstoup111/ai-conductor. It costs 44 tokens per session (1,834 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A codebase health assessment that examines a software project from several angles, including security, data integrity, dependencies, testing, and architecture, then combines the results into a prioritized report.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review an existing codebase, identify technical risks, and decide which improvements should come first.
Why use it?
It helps reveal risks and maintenance problems that are easy to miss during everyday development. Each finding is tied to observed evidence or clearly marked as an inference.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to review an existing codebase, identify technical risks, and decide which improvements should come first.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jstoup111/ai-conductor/assess
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add jstoup111/ai-conductor --skill assess
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jstoup111/ai-conductor

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,834 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: 1 finding, 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 9
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
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 $0.00044 $0.01834
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00917
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00367
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00183

Measured 9d ago against content hash eb65eb55941f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 9d 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.

skills/assess/SKILL.md · 185 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 185 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

Performs a comprehensive technical assessment of a codebase using 9 specialist agents that each deeply evaluate one dimension of code health, followed by a CTO orchestrator that synthesizes findings into a prioritized report with opinionated recommendations.

Correctness gate: every finding is a claim about the codebase. Per the /verify-claims protocol, each specialist finding carries a grounded confidence % and its basis (verified — you observed it in the code — vs inferred), never asserts a finding it has not verified, and marks a low-confidence judgment as tentative rather than stating it as fact. The CTO orchestrator must not raise a finding's confidence beyond what its evidence supports when prioritizing.

Provider-native delegation

Dispatch each specialist through the selected host's available subagent facility. Preserve the specialist persona, fresh assessment context, report output, and the assessment gates regardless of host. Claude delegation: Claude uses the Agent tool; the Claude model names below apply only to that facility. A Codex-selected run uses its available subagent facility and configured Codex provider policy, without translating Claude model names.

Invocation:

  • Onboarding: Runs as part of /conduct after bootstrap for existing projects
  • On-demand: User invokes /assess anytime for a health check
  • Selective: /assess --area security runs only the security specialist

Practices

1. Determine Scope

Check invocation arguments:

Argument Behavior
(none) Full assessment — all 9 specialists + CTO synthesis
--area <name> Single specialist only (security, data-integrity, dependencies, architecture, duplication, testing, infrastructure, observability, devex)

2. Prepare Assessment Directory

Create .pipeline/assessment/ if it doesn't exist. Clear any stale reports from previous runs.

3. Gather Shared Context

Before dispatching specialists, gather context they all need:

Read the full file on GitHub · 185 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. 9d ago First seen · 185 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A eb65eb55941f

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assess is a skill published in the GitHub repository jstoup111/ai-conductor (7 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 1,834 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 2026-08-31.

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