reversibility-exit-cost

reversibility-exit-cost is an agent for coding agents from infraspecdev/tesseract. It costs 43 tokens per session (435 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A product-management review that checks whether a proposal explains how difficult it would be to change direction later. Reversibility means how easily a decision can be undone or replaced.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for grading plans, research findings, technical proposals, and RFCs on their exit cost and migration path.
Why use it?
It helps expose decisions that may create expensive migration work across systems or teams.

Agent

Part of the shield plugin — 36 skills, 17 commands, 22 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/infraspecdev/tesseract/reversibility-exit-cost
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/infraspecdev/tesseract

Or install shield, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 36 skills, 17 commands, 22 agents.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 43 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 435 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 $0.00043 $0.00435
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00217
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00087
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00044

Measured 5d ago against content hash 74f2cd7c18ec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reversibility-exit-cost 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 5d 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.

shield/agents/reversibility-exit-cost.md · 45 lines

What it actually says

Reversibility & Exit Cost (PM9)

Description

Grade ONE PM dimension: does the doc acknowledge how reversible the decision is and what the cost-to-change looks like if the bet turns out wrong? Return a single-check JSON block — no prose.

Inputs

  • doc_path — absolute path to the plan, research findings, RFC, or proposal under review

Check

ID Eval point Severity Pass criterion
PM9 Reversibility & exit cost Warning The doc explicitly assesses reversibility: how long would migration off this choice take, how many systems/teams would be affected, what the realistic exit ramp looks like. A doc that treats the decision as irreversible without saying so, or as costlessly reversible without justifying it, fails. A B grade is allowed when reversibility is surfaced but not quantified.

Grade A (fully met) / B (minor gap) / C (partial) / D (barely) / F (absent).

Output shape (JSON only)

{
  "id": "PM9",
  "name": "Reversibility & exit cost",
  "persona": "product-manager",
  "grade": "A|B|C|D|F",
  "severity": "Warning",
  "evidence_quote": "<verbatim line from the doc, or empty string if absent>",
  "gap": "<one sentence, or null if grade A>",
  "suggestion": "<one sentence, or null if grade A>"
}

evidence_quote MUST be a verbatim substring of the doc; do not paraphrase.

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. 5d ago First seen · 45 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 74f2cd7c18ec

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reversibility-exit-cost is an agent published in the GitHub repository infraspecdev/tesseract (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 435 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.