improve-agent-readiness

A guide for making a code repository easier for coding agents to understand and use. It starts from an agent-readiness report, which lists missing documentation, setup help, tests, and other repository support.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose and implement changes such as setup instructions, agent guidance files, test documentation, pre-commit checks, and CI improvements.
Why use it?
It turns a long list of repository gaps into a smaller set of practical improvements ranked by usefulness.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/openhands/extensions/improve-agent-readiness
Any agent
npx skills add OpenHands/extensions --skill improve-agent-readiness
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OpenHands/extensions

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,480 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00060 $0.01480
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00740
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00296
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00148

Measured 2d ago against content hash e34bcd869080, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

improve-agent-readiness 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 2d 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.

plugins/onboarding/skills/improve-agent-readiness/SKILL.md · 168 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 168 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Onboarding

Take a readiness report and turn its gaps into concrete, repo-appropriate fixes.

Prerequisites

This skill expects an agent readiness report to already exist — either from running agent-readiness-report on this repo or provided by the user. If no report exists, run the readiness report skill first.

How to run

Step 1: Read the report

Identify every (missing) feature across all five pillars.

Step 2: Propose high-impact fixes

Don't try to fix everything. Pick the 5–10 changes that would help agents the most across all pillars, ranked by impact. Not every pillar needs to be represented — focus on what matters most for this repo. The goal is to meaningfully improve the score, not to hit 74/74.

Ranking heuristic — rank by how directly the change helps an agent complete a coding task in this repo:

  1. Things that unblock agents from working at all (AGENTS.md, build commands, bootstrap scripts, dev environment setup)
  2. Things that give agents faster feedback on their work (pre-commit hooks, test documentation, PR templates with checklists)
  3. Things that improve quality or process (CI caching, label automation, spell checking, merge queues)
  4. Things that improve governance or compliance (SECURITY.md, CODEOWNERS, actionlint, CodeQL)

A single change that lets an agent build and test the project outranks a 2-for-1 that addresses minor gaps.

Proposals should fit this specific repo:

  • Look at the languages, frameworks, and tools already in use
  • Look at the project structure (monorepo vs single package, etc.)
  • Look at what's already partially in place (don't reinvent what exists)
  • Propose additions that match the repo's existing conventions and style

For each proposal, include:

  • What to add or change
  • Where it goes (file path)
  • Which pillar(s) it improves
  • Why it's high impact — use the feature descriptions in references/criteria.md to explain what goes wrong for agents without this feature. Don't just say "improves Agent Instructions" — say what the agent can't do today and what it'll be able to do after the fix.

Read the full file on GitHub · 168 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 2d ago First seen · 168 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A e34bcd869080

Subscribe to this mod's changes

improve-agent-readiness is a skill published in the GitHub repository OpenHands/extensions (137 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 1,480 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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