assay

assay is a skill for Claude Code from V-Songbird/slag. It costs 161 tokens per session (5,268 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project audit tool for checking the instruction files, skills, and hooks that guide an agent. It reports instructions that are hidden, overridden, outdated, missing, or too large to load, and offers fixes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review AGENTS.md files and related agent configuration, then examine or apply suggested corrections.
Why use it?
It shows why project guidance may not be taking effect instead of leaving you to inspect many files by hand.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Codex.

Part of the assay plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review AGENTS.md files and related agent configuration, then examine or apply suggested corrections.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/v-songbird/slag/assay
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 V-Songbird/slag --skill assay
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/V-Songbird/slag

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install assay, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

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 assay

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/v-songbird/slag/assay/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/v-songbird/slag/assay)
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.

agentmods 80×15 button for assay

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 161 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,268 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 $0.00161 $0.05268
Opus 5 $0.00081 $0.02634
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.01054
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00527

Measured 9d ago against content hash d2ae3668046b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

assay 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 9d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • codex — 88% identical, 330 lines differ
assay/codex-skills/assay/SKILL.md · 407 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 407 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

assay

The engine ships with this skill: from the directory holding this SKILL.md, it is ../../scripts/assay.js. Resolve that to an absolute path once and use it in every command below. assay needs Node 18 or newer. If node is not on PATH, activate it the way the project's own setup notes say to, then rerun.

Every engine call that reads or writes the project's instruction files carries --host codex only where it runs discovery — scan, remeasure, ci and validate. Every other command reads the host off the saved records and refuses the flag outright. The profile decides which files are sources, which analyses apply, and what validate checks, so pass it wherever it is taken and nowhere else. rollback and clean work off the journal and take no host.

Flags the user's request may carry: --startup <path> (audit a session that begins in a subdirectory — the chain runs from the project root down to where the session starts; pass it to scan, which fixes it in the saved context report reads. The commands that re-scan inherit nothing from that context: remeasure and validate need --host codex and the same --startup passed again), --dry-run (audit and preview only — the menu is not asked, nothing is written), --verbose (the full report), --json (the machine-readable record), --top <n> (show more than the default 8 rows in the fix table), --no-verify (skip the second pass in step 2), --deterministic (skip every model step), --semantic (also propose duplicates and conflicts the script cannot see), --project-only (skip the user's own instruction files).

What this profile does not do. There is no letter grade and no wording score here: those weights carry no evidence for this host. Skills are checked against the metadata this host documents as required — name, description, the agents/openai.yaml sidecar, duplicate names, the collective listing budget. Say that plainly rather than implying anything here was scored, and never present a finding as a prediction that any instruction will be obeyed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 407 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. 9d ago First seen · 407 lines · 161 tokens per session scan A d2ae3668046b

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assay is a skill published in the GitHub repository V-Songbird/slag (1 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 161 tokens to every session and 5,268 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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