centaur: Skill for Codex

.agents/skills/harness-development/SKILL.md

harness-development is a skill for Codex from paradigmxyz/centaur. It costs 70 tokens per session (1,666 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

Development guidance for adding, changing, or debugging Centaur’s server backends, which connect the system to coding-agent command-line tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for adding harness command-line support, changing Codex App Server V2 message handling, investigating Claude Code, Amp, or Codex behavior, removing Python or TypeScript normalizers, and comparing real-agent behavior.
Why use it?
It helps keep different coding agents’ messages, streaming output, and steering controls working consistently through one server layer.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is paradigmxyz/centaur's own configuration. It tells Codex how to work on centaur itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything centaur configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to paradigmxyz/centaur. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/paradigmxyz/centaur/main/.agents/skills/harness-development/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paradigmxyz/centaur

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,666 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 high

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 →

  • high Excessive Agency · line 40
    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 unknown 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 $0.00070 $0.01666
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00666
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00333
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00167

Measured 7d ago against content hash beecbcfd7032, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

harness-development 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 7d 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.

.agents/skills/harness-development/SKILL.md · 128 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 7d ago Changed · +2 lines beecbcfd7032
  2. 23d ago Changed · +12 lines · -9 tokens per session 3ebfdbd1867d
  3. 2mo ago First seen · 114 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 507e017b6376

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harness-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository paradigmxyz/centaur (1,410 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 1,666 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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