necessist-audit

necessist-audit is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from trailofbits/necessist. It costs 46 tokens per session (741 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A procedure for checking Necessist results. Necessist is a tool that finds code or tests that may be removable.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review Necessist's removal suggestions, investigate possible bugs, and check whether the test setup is hiding failures.
Why use it?
It helps determine whether a suggested removal is safe, including cases where tests pass without checking the behavior they are meant to verify.

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/trailofbits/necessist/necessist-audit
Any agent
npx skills add trailofbits/necessist --skill necessist-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/trailofbits/necessist

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 741 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00046 $0.00741
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00370
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00148
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00074

Measured 6d ago against content hash ba939c78186c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

necessist-audit 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 6d 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.

core/skills/necessist-audit/SKILL.md · 73 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

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

Read it on GitHub

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. 6d ago First seen · 73 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A ba939c78186c

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necessist-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository trailofbits/necessist (145 stars, last pushed today), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 741 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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