characterize-with-contracts

characterize-with-contracts is a skill for Claude Code from SebastienDegodez/skraft-plugin. It costs 103 tokens per session (925 once invoked), scanned A, original, GPL-3.0.

A guide for discovering a service’s existing API contract and creating tests that preserve its current behaviour, including known bugs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to reconstruct API expectations, create golden-master or characterisation tests, identify the technology stack, and connect contract verification where supported.
Why use it?
It creates a safety net before refactoring a legacy service, so accidental changes to its existing API behaviour are easier to detect.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the skraft plugin — 36 skills, 15 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to reconstruct API expectations, create golden-master or characterisation tests, identify the technology stack, and connect contract verification where supported.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sebastiendegodez/skraft-plugin/characterize-with-contracts
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 SebastienDegodez/skraft-plugin --skill characterize-with-contracts
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SebastienDegodez/skraft-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skraft, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 36 skills, 15 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 925 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 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 $0.00103 $0.00925
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00463
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00185
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00093

Measured 10d ago against content hash f712d054332e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

characterize-with-contracts 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 10d 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/skraft-framework/skills/characterize-with-contracts/SKILL.md · 70 lines

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Licensed GPL-3.0

The repository is licensed GPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

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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. 10d ago First seen · 70 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A f712d054332e

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characterize-with-contracts is a skill published in the GitHub repository SebastienDegodez/skraft-plugin (8 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed GPL-3.0. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 925 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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