score-harness

score-harness is a skill for Claude Code from ruvnet/metaharness. It costs 0 tokens per session (740 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A scorecard for judging a generated coding harness across five areas: repository understanding, agent usefulness, MCP safety, test coverage, and publishing readiness. A coding harness is the project setup that lets agents work with a codebase and its tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess a harness, detect missing tests or release files, check tool-safety settings, and report whether it reaches the defined release grade.
Why use it?
It turns several quality checks into one score, grade, and status block for a README. MCP refers to the tool-connection system used by agents, and the scorecard checks whether its access is controlled.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code plugin manifest. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Codex.

Part of the agent-harness-generator plugin — 14 skills, 1 plugin shipped together

Good fit Use it to assess a harness, detect missing tests or release files, check tool-safety settings, and report whether it reaches the defined release grade.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ruvnet/metaharness/score-harness
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 ruvnet/metaharness --skill score-harness
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ruvnet/metaharness

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-harness-generator, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 1 plugin.

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 score-harness

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ruvnet/metaharness/score-harness/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ruvnet/metaharness/score-harness)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ruvnet/metaharness/score-harness"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ruvnet/metaharness/score-harness/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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 score-harness

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ruvnet/metaharness/score-harness"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ruvnet/metaharness/score-harness.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 740 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00000 $0.00740
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00296
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00148
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00074

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 4093fd09e4c4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

score-harness 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 1mo 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.

.claude-plugin/skills/score-harness/SKILL.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

score-harness

Codex skill: 5-dimension harness scorecard with README-ready badges (iter 111 → iter 114).

What it does

Every generated harness gets a single 0-100 score and a 6-field badge block. The user roadmap target: A grade (>=85) without manual edits.

Dimension Weight Reads
Repo understanding 25% .harness/manifest.json (surface + kernel_version + host)
Agent usefulness 25% src/agents/*.ts + .claude/skills/* + .claude/commands/* counts
MCP safety 20% .harness/mcp-policy.json (default-deny + audit + perm gates)
Test coverage 15% __tests__/ + npm test + .github/workflows/
Publish readiness 15% witness.json + sbom.json + package.json#bin

Grade + exit code:

Grade Range Exit
A 85-100 0 — the user's target
B 70-84 0
C 50-69 1 (needs work)
F 0-49 2 (blocked)

Badge block (the 6-field shape)

{
  "score": 87,
  "mcpRisk": "Low",
  "releaseReady": true,
  "testsDetected": true,
  "sbom": true,
  "witnessSigned": true
}

mcpRisk is one of None / Low / Medium / High. Drop this block into the generated harness README as visible badges — see ADR-030 for the propagation discipline.

Usage from Codex

/score-harness path=./my-harness
/score-harness path=./my-harness bundle=true

Equivalent CLI

harness score ./my-harness                # text + bars + dimension breakdown
harness score ./my-harness --json         # 6-field badges JSON
harness score ./my-harness --bundle       # ADR-031 schema-1 envelope
harness score ./my-harness --out badges.json
  • validate-harness (iter 22) — release-readiness umbrella that the score subcommand inherits signals from
  • diag-harness (iter 70) — kernel-version skew (one of the Repo-understanding signals)
  • threat-model (iter 114) — focused MCP threat artifact

See also

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 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. 1mo ago First seen · 77 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 4093fd09e4c4

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score-harness is a skill published in the GitHub repository ruvnet/metaharness (713 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 740 tokens. 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.