hardening-codebase

A staged codebase review and tightening process for architecture, lint rules, type checking, tests, documentation, and code review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when taking over a project, preparing for a release, or making validation checks less permissive.
Why use it?
It finds weak quality checks and raises them gradually, helping a project become stricter without changing application code during the configuration phase.

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/qte77/claude-code-plugins/hardening-codebase
Any agent
npx skills add qte77/claude-code-plugins --skill hardening-codebase
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/qte77/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,094 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 $0.00044 $0.01094
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00547
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00219
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00109

Measured yesterday against content hash 24cc41579608, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hardening-codebase 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 yesterday.

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/codebase-tools/skills/hardening-codebase/SKILL.md · 127 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 127 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Harden Codebase

Scope: $ARGUMENTS (default: full)

Systematic quality tightening. Nine phases, each with a clear gate. KISS: tighten one level at a time — never jump to max strictness.

Phase 1: ARCHITECTURE (read-only)

  1. Identify entry points, module boundaries, and dependency flow
  2. Map layering: which modules depend on which?
  3. Flag circular dependencies and boundary violations
  4. Output module map as indented text tree (plain markdown, no diagrams)
  5. Note undocumented coupling, god modules, misplaced responsibilities

Gate: Module map + issue list. Present to user before proceeding.

Phase 2: AUDIT (read-only)

  1. Does make setup_all (or equivalent) work from scratch?
  2. What lint rules are enabled? Gap vs recommended? See references/lint-tightening-checklist.md
  3. Type checker strictness level?
  4. Do tests pass? Are slow/hardware tests filtered?
  5. Is check-only gate separate from auto-fix?

Gate: Issue list ranked HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW. Present to user before proceeding.

Phase 3: TIGHTEN (config only — no code changes)

  1. Enable next-level lint rules (baseline → recommended, not strict)
  2. Bump type checker one level
  3. Split auto-fix from check-only gate if missing
  4. Add test marker filters for slow/hardware/network
  5. Count new violations — report before fixing

Gate: Config committed. Violation count known.

Phase 4: FIX (mechanical)

  1. Run auto-fix
  2. Fix remaining violations manually
  3. Update tests broken by signature changes
  4. make validate must pass

Gate: All checks green. Commit fixes.

Phase 5: DOCS QUALITY

  1. Does README exist and reflect current state?
  2. Are public APIs documented (docstrings, JSDoc, rustdoc)?
  3. Are architecture decisions recorded (ADRs or equivalent)?
  4. Do inline comments explain why, not what?
  5. Are there stale/misleading docs that contradict the code?
  6. Enforce KISS in docs — no walls of text, no redundant sections
  7. Enforce DRY — single source of truth, no copy-pasted explanations
  8. Enforce YAGNI — remove docs for features that don't exist

Read the full file on GitHub · 127 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. yesterday First seen · 127 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 24cc41579608

Subscribe to this mod's changes

hardening-codebase is a skill published in the GitHub repository qte77/claude-code-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 1,094 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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