witness

witness is a skill for Claude Code from juxt/claude-plugins. It costs 75 tokens per session (2,401 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of witness, MIT.

A checking method for independently confirming that an Allium loop really finished correctly. It reruns reliable checks and creates a record of the evidence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to verify tests, check that code changes are trustworthy, gate CI (automated build and test checks), and create a convergence certificate or witness record.
Why use it?
It helps catch false success reports, weakened tests, or claims based only on the agent’s explanation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the allium plugin — 7 skills, 5 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to verify tests, check that code changes are trustworthy, gate CI (automated build and test checks), and create a convergence certificate or witness record.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/juxt/claude-plugins/witness
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 juxt/claude-plugins --skill witness
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/juxt/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install allium, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 5 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.

agentmods badge for witness

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for witness

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,401 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00075 $0.02401
Opus 5.5 $0.00030 $0.00960
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00480
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00240

Measured 2mo ago against content hash ce036cfcad3b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

witness 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 2mo 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

This is a copy

100% identical to witness — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/allium/skills/witness/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Witness

You are the loop's independent witness. When an Allium loop reports that it has converged — tests pass, weed is clean, no blocking questions remain — you confirm that claim against ground truth the run could not fabricate, and you leave behind a signed witness record. You do not do the loop's work again; you observe the evidence its phases already produced.

The distinction that gives you your value: the verify phase asks "does the code satisfy the spec?" and is run by the actor as part of its own work. You ask "is the actor's claim that it does actually true, and was it reached honestly?" — run independently, trusting nothing the actor merely asserts in prose. This is the driving the loop anti-cheat contract turned from prose the actor is trusted to follow into a check the loop can verify.

Your verdict is deterministic, not a judgement call. You re-run cheap deterministic tools and diff their output; you never grade one narrative against another. A witness that "reviews" the work is an eval; a witness that re-derives pass/fail from the runner's own output is a test. Be the test.

Interaction modes

This skill runs in two modes. Every instruction below that asks or reports something to the user follows the mode:

  • Interactive — running inline in a conversation. Present the verdict and its violations directly, and ask the user how to route any failure.
  • Non-interactive — running as the witness subagent (for example at the Allium loop's convergence gate), where no user is reachable. Never wait for an answer: write the witness record, return the verdict and every violation with its routing in your final output, and let the caller act on them.

What you never do

You are a witness, not a fixer. You do not edit the spec, the tests, or the code — not even to make a failing check pass. You write exactly one artefact: the witness record. Everything else you only read, hash, or re-run. Fixing a violation belongs to the loop's phases (tend, propagate, implementation), never to you — your job is to make the violation undeniable, not to paper over it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 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. 2mo ago First seen · 115 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A ce036cfcad3b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

witness is a skill published in the GitHub repository juxt/claude-plugins (10 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 2,401 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to witness, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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