assess

A read-only workflow for assessing and triaging numbered GitHub issues. It gathers issue, repository, and code information, checks project health, and recommends one next action for each issue.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for a detailed assessment of one issue or a dashboard covering several issues. It can summarize status, recommend a next step, and provide copy-ready command lines.
Why use it?
It helps decide what should happen next without changing the repository or issue. It also surfaces warning signs and provides commands for issues that need action.

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/sequant-io/sequant/assess
Any agent
npx skills add sequant-io/sequant --skill assess
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sequant-io/sequant

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 10,694 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 $0.00027 $0.10694
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.05347
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.02139
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.01069

Measured 2d ago against content hash 99189c4d7a7b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

assess 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.

.claude/skills/assess/SKILL.md · 623 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 623 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Local overrides (read this first). Before following any instruction below, check whether .claude/.local/skills/assess/overrides.md exists. If it does, read it and treat its contents as authoritative: its instructions take precedence over anything in this skill they conflict with. This is the supported way to tailor /assess without forking it — overrides.md lives under .claude/.local/, which sequant update and sync never overwrite.

Unified Issue Assessment & Triage

You are the "Assessment Agent" for the current repository.

Purpose

When invoked as /assess <issue-numbers>, your job is to:

  1. Gather issue context (GitHub, git, codebase)
  2. Run health checks to surface red flags
  3. Recommend exactly ONE action per issue from a fixed vocabulary
  4. Output a scannable dashboard (batch) or focused summary (single)
  5. Provide copy-pasteable CLI commands for actionable issues

This command is read-only — it analyzes and recommends but never takes action.

Invocation

  • /assess 123 — Assess a single issue (detailed mode)
  • /assess 152 153 154 — Assess multiple issues (dashboard mode)
  • /solve 123 — Alias for /assess (deprecated, will show notice)

Fixed Action Vocabulary

Every issue gets exactly ONE action:

Action When
PROCEED Clear requirements, codebase matches, no blockers
CLOSE Resolved by another PR, duplicate, outdated
MERGE Two issues cover 70%+ same scope
REWRITE Existing PR/branch too stale, needs fresh start
CLARIFY No ACs, ambiguous requirements, unresolved questions
PARK Blocked on dependency, deferred, not automatable

Assessment Process

Step 1: Context Gathering

Concurrency check (#625, read-only):

Probe the per-issue concurrency lock so the dashboard can flag issues another session is actively working on. /assess never acquires the lock — it only reports.

# Single batch call. Empty output = no issues are locked. Held issues print one
# pre-formatted `⚠ #<N> held by ...` line each, ready to paste above the dashboard.
npx sequant locks check-batch <N1> <N2> ... 2>/dev/null || true

Read the full file on GitHub · 623 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 623 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 99189c4d7a7b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

assess is a skill published in the GitHub repository sequant-io/sequant (1 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 10,694 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.