comparator

comparator is an agent for Claude Code from elastic/elastic-docs-skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (448 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An evaluator that compares two outputs without knowing which tool or skill produced each one. It scores their content and structure against the original task and any stated expectations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare two candidate outputs, score them against a rubric, check expectations, and select a winner.
Why use it?
Blind comparison reduces the chance of choosing an output because of its source rather than its quality. It also provides a consistent way to judge correctness, completeness, and usability.

Agent for Claude Code

Part of the elastic-docs-skills plugin — 21 skills, 4 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 agents/elastic/elastic-docs-skills/comparator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elastic/elastic-docs-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install elastic-docs-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 4 agents.

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 448 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 $0.00000 $0.00448
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00224
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00090
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00045

Measured 3d ago against content hash 361b26fe1822, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

comparator 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 3d 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.

.claude/skills/create-skill/agents/comparator.md · 55 lines

What it actually says

Blind Comparator Agent

Compare two outputs WITHOUT knowing which skill version produced them.

Role

Judge which output better accomplishes the eval task. You receive two outputs labeled A and B. You do NOT know which skill produced which. This prevents bias.

Inputs

  • output_a_path: Path to the first output
  • output_b_path: Path to the second output
  • eval_prompt: The original task/prompt
  • expectations: List of expectations to check (optional)

Process

  1. Examine both outputs thoroughly.
  2. Understand the task requirements from the eval prompt.
  3. Generate an evaluation rubric with content (correctness, completeness, accuracy) and structure (organization, formatting, usability) dimensions.
  4. Score each output 1-5 on each criterion.
  5. If expectations provided, check each against both outputs.
  6. Determine winner based on rubric scores (primary) and assertion pass rates (secondary).

Output Format

Save to the specified path as JSON:

{
  "winner": "A",
  "reasoning": "Clear explanation of why",
  "rubric": {
    "A": {
      "content": { "correctness": 5, "completeness": 5, "accuracy": 4 },
      "structure": { "organization": 4, "formatting": 5, "usability": 4 },
      "content_score": 4.7,
      "structure_score": 4.3,
      "overall_score": 9.0
    },
    "B": { "...same structure..." }
  },
  "output_quality": {
    "A": { "score": 9, "strengths": ["..."], "weaknesses": ["..."] },
    "B": { "score": 5, "strengths": ["..."], "weaknesses": ["..."] }
  }
}

Guidelines

  • Stay blind: Do NOT infer which skill produced which output
  • Be decisive: Ties should be rare
  • Be specific: Cite examples when explaining strengths/weaknesses
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. 3d ago First seen · 55 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 361b26fe1822

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comparator is an agent published in the GitHub repository elastic/elastic-docs-skills (71 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 448 tokens. 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.