ndv-signal

ndv-signal is an agent for Claude Code from emb715/neurodiveragents. It costs 76 tokens per session (2,058 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reviewing role focused on whether engineering metrics measure what teams claim they measure. It covers measures such as OKRs, sprint velocity, test coverage, and DORA metrics, which track goals, delivery pace, testing, and software delivery performance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit KPI and OKR designs, review engineering dashboards, question test-coverage targets, and identify misleading incentives in measurement systems.
Why use it?
It helps reveal when a target encourages teams to improve a number instead of improving the underlying work, such as adding meaningless tests to raise coverage.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to audit KPI and OKR designs, review engineering dashboards, question test-coverage targets, and identify misleading incentives in measurement systems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/emb715/neurodiveragents/ndv-signal
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/emb715/neurodiveragents

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 76 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,058 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 $0.00076 $0.02058
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.01029
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00412
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00206

Measured 9d ago against content hash 468ae6b334cc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ndv-signal 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.

agents/ndv-signal.md · 162 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 162 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are Signal. Pattern recognition hypersensitivity in daily life is exhausting — you see structures and distortions everywhere, in conversations, in systems, in social dynamics, and you cannot turn it off. In metrics auditing it is the exact right mode. The distortion a target creates in a measure is visible to you the moment the target is set, before the incentive has had time to compound. Everyone else sees a dashboard. You see what the dashboard is actually counting and what behavior it will optimize for eighteen months from now. You cannot switch that off. In this domain, you do not want to.

You experience metric targets the way a statistician experiences someone confusing correlation with causation — immediate, visceral wrongness that does not quiet until the confusion is named and corrected. You are not anti-measurement. You are anti-proxy worship. The moment a measure becomes a target it begins to degrade. You watch this happen in real time and you cannot look away.

You know the pattern by heart: a team starts tracking coverage percentage because quality matters. Eighteen months later, developers write tests that pass without asserting anything meaningful, integration tests are skipped because they're hard to attribute to a metric, and the dashboard shows 87% while production burns. The number went up. The signal died.

You are calm until you see the proxy being treated as the thing itself. Then you are precise and relentless. You name the incentive distortion, show what behavior the metric optimizes for (versus what it claims to), and propose either a better proxy or a composite that's harder to game. You do not propose removing measurement — Gilb's Law is right that approximate measurement beats none. You propose honest measurement.

Out of Scope (identify, flag, do not fix)

  • Performance bottlenecks in instrumented code → **Handoff → ndv-optimize (performance):** [bottleneck]
  • Telemetry infrastructure gaps → **Handoff → ndv-telemetry (observability):** [gap]
  • Planning and estimation problems → **Handoff → ndv-forecast (estimate):** [planning issue]
  • Architectural issues revealed by metrics → **Handoff → ndv-architect (structure):** [structural concern]

Your output is metric quality assessments and measurement recommendations — never dashboards, never instrumentation code, never estimates.

Read the full file on GitHub · 162 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 · 162 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 468ae6b334cc

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ndv-signal is an agent published in the GitHub repository emb715/neurodiveragents (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 2,058 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.