skill-health

skill-health is a skill for Claude Code from shimo4228/claude-harness. It costs 168 tokens per session (3,095 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checker for a library of skills, where each skill is a reusable instruction set for a coding agent. It finds references to files, scripts, agents, or related skills that are missing, and reports some names it cannot resolve.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan skill folders for dangling references and separate definite missing files from names that simply lack a filesystem path.
Why use it?
It detects broken links inside the skill library that could silently stop instructions from working after files are renamed or removed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Use it to scan skill folders for dangling references and separate definite missing files from names that simply lack a filesystem path.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shimo4228/claude-harness/skill-health
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 shimo4228/claude-harness --skill skill-health
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shimo4228/claude-harness

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 168 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,095 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 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 $0.00168 $0.03095
Opus 5 $0.00084 $0.01548
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.00619
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00310

Measured 11d ago against content hash d67cf5999a8e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-health 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 6 executable files (scripts/__init__.py, scripts/scan_refs.py, scripts/url_liveness.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/skill-health/SKILL.md · 206 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 206 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

skill-health — Skill-Library Structural Debt Scan

Detect skill technical debt — library-level defects that do not break a single skill in isolation but degrade the library over time (SkillOps, Pu/Song/ Zhao 2026, arXiv:2605.13716). This skill owns the one debt pattern no other harness skill checks: missing artifacts — a SKILL.md that references a scripts/ module, a bash script, an agent, or a sibling skill that no longer exists on disk (it silently dangles after a rename or delete).

This is a structural property — decidable from the literal text plus a filesystem exists() check — so it is owned by deterministic code at 100% accuracy (AKC ADR-0008 Code-LLM Layering). The semantic, risk, and validation dimensions are delegated, never re-implemented here.

Three output categories — only one is a defect claim

The scanner reports three lists, and conflating them is the mistake this section exists to prevent:

  • Dangling references (dangling, exit code 1) — the skill wrote a path, and that path does not exist. exists() is authoritative here.
  • Unresolved names (unresolved_names, exit code unaffected) — the skill named a skill/command without a path (See skill: X, `X` skill, `/X`) and no file matches under the skills root. This is an enumeration handed to judgment, not a finding. The name may still be a CLI builtin, a bundled skill, a plugin command, or a project-scoped skill in another repo — none of which live here.
  • External skills (external, exit code unaffected) — the skill's directory is a symlink out of the skills root, so this harness does not own the file. Also an enumeration, and it answers a different question from the other two: not "is this skill correct?" but "would a fix applied here survive?" It would not — the owning tree overwrites it on its next upgrade, and the change never reaches version control. Route these upstream (issue / PR); do not hand them a local verdict.

Read the full file on GitHub · 206 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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. 11d ago First seen · 206 lines · 168 tokens per session scan A d67cf5999a8e

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skill-health is a skill published in the GitHub repository shimo4228/claude-harness (3 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 168 tokens to every session and 3,095 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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