kendex: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/harness-ci/SKILL.md

harness-ci is a skill for Claude Code from vanillagreencom/kendex. It costs 20 tokens per session (2,986 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A checker for deciding whether a code change contains only generated agent-configuration files, such as skills and hooks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it in pull-request checks to label a change as harness-only or not. It also documents how to connect the check to a repository workflow without editing that workflow.
Why use it?
It prevents project source files from being mistaken for generated output, and treats unreadable changes as unsafe to classify.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions AGENTS.md.

This is vanillagreencom/kendex's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on kendex itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything kendex configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to vanillagreencom/kendex. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vanillagreencom/kendex/main/.agents/skills/harness-ci/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vanillagreencom/kendex

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,986 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00020 $0.02986
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.01194
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00597
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00299

Measured 11d ago against content hash 02acf417e1fe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

harness-ci scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 2 executable files (scripts/lib/change-class.sh, scripts/lib/ci-lanes.sh), 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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

<!-- kendex:project-instructions:start -->
.agents/skills/harness-ci/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Instructions

Problems with a kendex-owned skill go through kendex report; check ownership in the file first.

Harness CI

Run the classifier to decide whether CI can skip product checks. Commit .kendex-generated.json with the renders after kendex refresh. The engine writes that inventory from rendered artifacts. In-place content and carrier package source remain outside it.

.agents/skills/harness-ci/scripts/harness-only \
  --event pull_request --base "$BASE" --head "$HEAD"

The endpoints: references/wiring.md § The endpoint expressions. Flags and exit codes: harness-only --help. Consumer setup: README.md. Workflow shapes to copy: references/wiring.md.

Use --mode render-candidate only to gate the engine installation and mirror refresh. It prints render_candidate=true|false and grants no CI skip. It permits new head-owned paths and the adopted caller under the caller ownership contract. change-class must prove render before CI skips product checks.

Use --mode docs for the docs-only path set that harness-only --help defines. It prints docs_only=true|false.

Use change-class --output FILE for local lane selection. It appends lanes and lanes_cause beside change_class and queue_only. Pass --lanes-from DIR with a separate trusted checkout to read its lane declaration. The default declares no lanes. Pass --queue-only-default true to answer as the CI template's classify step does. The action and command use scripts/lib/change-class.sh for the lane rules in references/wiring.md § Per-lane verdicts, the queue-only stand-down and the nightly full run included.

A verification refusal carrying the source refresh remedy reads cause=source-mirror-missing verb=source operation=refresh. The caller refreshes its sources before retrying the proof.

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 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.

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harness-ci is a skill published in the GitHub repository vanillagreencom/kendex (87 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 2,986 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.