pairing

pairing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from testdouble/han. It costs 189 tokens per session (2,919 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A collaborative workflow for completing development work in small, reviewable pieces. It keeps the developer involved and hands control back before the next piece begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when pairing on a project, reviewing incremental implementation steps, or making choices that may be costly to change later.
Why use it?
It prevents a large finished change from arriving all at once and gives the developer regular chances to steer or correct the work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the han-core plugin — 1 skill, 22 agents shipped together

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/testdouble/han/pairing
Any agent
npx skills add testdouble/han --skill pairing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/testdouble/han

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install han-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 22 agents.

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 pairing

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 189 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,919 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 $0.00189 $0.02919
Opus 5 $0.00095 $0.01460
Sonnet 5 $0.00038 $0.00584
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00292

Measured 4d ago against content hash 44a6acd40b81, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pairing 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 4d 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.

han-core/skills/pairing/SKILL.md · 208 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 208 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Context

  • personal config directory: !bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/han-config-dir.sh" 2>/dev/null || echo "$HOME/.claude"
  • project .han/config.md: !cat .han/config.md 2>/dev/null || echo ""
  • CLAUDE.md: !find . -maxdepth 1 -name "CLAUDE.md" -type f

As your first action, use the Read tool on .han/config.md inside the personal config directory path above. A read that returns no file is no personal configuration: continue silently. When that file or the project .han/config.md probe supplies content, apply it per config-rule.md, which governs precedence between the two files, relative-path resolution, and what to do with a file that reads but cannot be used.

The contract this skill runs on

Read collaborative-stop-rule.md before Step 4. It defines what a stop presents, when the pre-build ask fires, what makes a choice expensive to walk back, and what to do with the answer. The skills this one hands work to follow the same file, which is what makes a stop feel the same whoever performed it.

Two constraints from that file govern every step below and are repeated here because they are the ones most easily lost:

  • The pacing is the deliverable. Ending the turn at each stop is the product, not an interruption in it. Never continue past a stop to be helpful.
  • A stop hands over something to check, never a case for the work. Lead with what the person can verify. The reasoning goes last or goes unsaid until asked, BECAUSE a fluent explanation raises agreement without raising scrutiny, which is the failure this whole loop exists to prevent.

Pairing

Step 1: Resolve the Record Location

Resolve where the running feedback record will be written, using the output base directory from the configuration probed above. Absent any configuration, write it beside the work under .han/pairing/.

Name the file for this run so a second run in the same repository does not overwrite the first. State the path to the person in Step 4's plan, in one clause, BECAUSE a record they cannot find is not a record.

Read the full file on GitHub · 208 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. 4d ago First seen · 208 lines · 189 tokens per session scan A 44a6acd40b81

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pairing is a skill published in the GitHub repository testdouble/han (255 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 189 tokens to every session and 2,919 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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