strengthen

strengthen is a skill for Claude Code from zernie/vigiles. It costs 88 tokens per session (1,699 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for turning guidance rules in CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md into enforceable checks backed by existing code linters. Linters are tools that automatically detect selected code problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing rules against ESLint, Ruff, Clippy, Pylint, RuboCop, or Stylelint and suggesting safe ways to enforce them.
Why use it?
It helps replace instructions that people may overlook with checks that can flag violations, while identifying changes that need extra configuration or plugins.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the vigiles plugin — 26 skills, 4 hooks, 2 plugins shipped together

not rated 15repo today A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: warn 88 tokens original MIT

Good fit Reviewing rules against ESLint, Ruff, Clippy, Pylint, RuboCop, or Stylelint and suggesting safe ways to enforce them.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zernie/vigiles/strengthen
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 zernie/vigiles --skill strengthen
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zernie/vigiles

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install vigiles, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 26 skills, 4 hooks, 2 plugins.

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README.md
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,699 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 7 Aug 2026
  • Snyk pass 7 Aug 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 28
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 159
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 169
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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 $0.00088 $0.01699
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00849
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00340
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00170

Measured 11d ago against content hash 235677c111dd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

strengthen scanned grade A 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.

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.

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

# "Don't use os.system"
skills/strengthen/SKILL.md · 173 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 173 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scan spec files for guidance() rules and suggest enforce() replacements backed by real linter rules.

Principle: auto the free wins, nudge for the costs

The dividing line is cost, not strictness. A guidance()enforce() swap where the linter rule already exists and is enabled is a pure win — free, reversible, no false-positive risk — so apply it (Tier 1 below). Anything that costs something — editing linter config, installing a plugin, or a change that could fail a clean CI — is the user's call: present it with the tradeoff spelled out and let them choose (Tiers 2–4). Never silently edit config, install a dependency, or escalate the repo into strict gating. This is the init enforcement model (structural = on by default, workflow/strict = opt-in) applied at edit time.

Instructions

Step 0: Choose Mode

Ask the user:

Auto or interactive?

  • Auto — I'll apply all safe changes (direct replacements where the rule is already enabled), commit, and show you the diff. Risky changes (require config edits or plugin installs) go in a summary for you to review.
  • Interactive — I'll present each suggestion and you pick which ones to apply.

Default to interactive if the user doesn't specify.

Step 1: Discover What's Installed

Run npx vigiles generate types to get the full list of enabled linter rules in the project. Read .vigiles/generated.d.ts to see every rule available across all detected linters.

Note which linter prefixes appear in the generated types (e.g., EslintRule, RuffRule). You'll only need reference docs for detected linters.

Step 2: Find All Guidance Rules

Find all .spec.ts files in the project (**/*.md.spec.ts). For each file, identify every guidance() rule.

Step 3: Match Against Generated Types (Fast Path)

For each guidance rule, check if an enabled rule in .vigiles/generated.d.ts directly matches. This is the fast, deterministic path — no doc reading needed.

Look for:

  • Exact rule name in text — guidance says "no-console" and no-console is in EslintRule
  • Semantic match — guidance says "don't use console.log" and no-console is available
  • Rule description match — guidance says "unused variables" and no-unused-vars or @typescript-eslint/no-unused-vars is available

Read the full file on GitHub · 173 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. 11d ago First seen · 173 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A 235677c111dd

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strengthen is a skill published in the GitHub repository zernie/vigiles (15 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 1,699 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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