es5-compliance

es5-compliance is a skill for Claude Code from serac-labs/serac. It costs 49 tokens per session (870 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for writing ServiceNow server-side JavaScript using only ES5, the older JavaScript standard supported by ServiceNow's Rhino engine. It shows replacements for newer syntax such as const, arrow functions, template strings, and async/await.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to rewrite modern JavaScript into compatible ServiceNow scripts, including variable declarations, loops, functions, and asynchronous record-processing patterns.
Why use it?
It helps prevent syntax errors when code uses JavaScript features that the server environment cannot run.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the skills plugin — 56 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to rewrite modern JavaScript into compatible ServiceNow scripts, including variable declarations, loops, functions, and asynchronous record-processing patterns.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/serac-labs/serac/es5-compliance
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 serac-labs/serac --skill es5-compliance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/serac-labs/serac

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 56 skills.

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 870 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 $0.00049 $0.00870
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00435
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00174
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00087

Measured 10d ago against content hash aa3c10542bac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

es5-compliance 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.

packages/skills/es5-compliance/SKILL.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ES5 Compliance for ServiceNow

ServiceNow runs on Mozilla Rhino engine which only supports ES5 JavaScript (2009 standard). All server-side scripts MUST use ES5 syntax.

Forbidden Syntax (WILL CAUSE SyntaxError)

ES6+ Syntax ES5 Alternative
const x = 5 var x = 5
let items = [] var items = []
() => {} function() {}
`Hello ${name}` 'Hello ' + name
for (x of arr) for (var i = 0; i < arr.length; i++)
{a, b} = obj var a = obj.a; var b = obj.b;
[a, b] = arr var a = arr[0]; var b = arr[1];
...spread Use Array.prototype.slice.call()
class MyClass {} Use constructor functions
async/await Use GlideRecord callbacks
Promise Use GlideRecord with callbacks

Common Patterns

Variable Declarations

// WRONG - ES6
const MAX_RETRIES = 3
let currentUser = gs.getUser()

// CORRECT - ES5
var MAX_RETRIES = 3
var currentUser = gs.getUser()

Functions

// WRONG - Arrow functions
var active = incidents.filter((inc) => inc.active)
var process = () => {
  return "done"
}

// CORRECT - ES5 functions
var active = []
for (var i = 0; i < incidents.length; i++) {
  if (incidents[i].active) {
    active.push(incidents[i])
  }
}
var process = function () {
  return "done"
}

String Concatenation

// WRONG - Template literals
var message = `Incident ${number} assigned to ${user}`

// CORRECT - String concatenation
var message = "Incident " + number + " assigned to " + user

Loops

// WRONG - for...of
for (var item of items) {
  gs.info(item)
}

// CORRECT - Traditional for loop
for (var i = 0; i < items.length; i++) {
  gs.info(items[i])
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 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. 10d ago First seen · 124 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A aa3c10542bac

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es5-compliance is a skill published in the GitHub repository serac-labs/serac (78 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 870 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 2026-08-30.

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