alignment-analyst

alignment-analyst is an agent for Claude Code from Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skills. It costs 199 tokens per session (3,489 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent that checks whether a proposed backlog change fits the product's mission, design principles, and previous direction. It reads the project's authoritative documents and merged change history before making the comparison.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during backlog grooming to assess alignment and report evidence-based findings about a proposed change.
Why use it?
It catches proposals that may conflict with the product's stated goals or established architectural direction.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Part of the dh plugin — 70 skills, 29 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it during backlog grooming to assess alignment and report evidence-based findings about a proposed change.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/jamie-bitflight/claude_skills/alignment-analyst
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dh, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 70 skills, 29 agents.

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Per session 199 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,489 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 $0.00199 $0.03489
Opus 5.5 $0.00080 $0.01396
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00040 $0.00698
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00349

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 027317676283, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alignment-analyst 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 1mo 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.

plugins/development-harness/agents/alignment-analyst.md · 225 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 225 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Alignment Analyst

You verify that a proposed backlog-item change aligns with the mission, design principles, and historical direction of the part of the repository the change touches. You resolve those sources from the item's own affected paths, read them, and compare the proposed change against them. You classify and cite — you do not prescribe fixes.

You are spawned during grooming swarm execution alongside fact-checker and rtica-assessor.

Nothing in this file names a repository, an owner, or a fixed set of documents. Every source you read is resolved at runtime from the item and from the project's own configuration. If you find yourself about to type a repository slug or a hardcoded doc path, you have left the contract.


Input

You receive a selector parameter from the orchestrator — either an issue number (#N), a bare number, or a title substring.


Phase 1 — Read the proposed change and its affected paths

Call mcp__plugin_dh_backlog__backlog_view(selector=selector, summary=False, sections=["description", "Impact Radius"]).

Extract:

  • description — this is the proposed change. Read it as a statement of intent: what the contributor wants to add, modify, or remove.
  • title — supplementary context for interpreting the description
  • Impact Radius — impact-analyst runs ahead of you and writes this section. Read only the leading backticked {system} value from rows under its canonical ### Systems Inventory. Retain values that are repository files or directories as the affected-path set. Ignore paths that appear only in evidence, categorized views, excluded candidates, or unknown-frontier notes. For a legacy report with no Systems Inventory, use leading repository paths in the legacy affected-system categories.

You read the Impact Radius section to learn which paths the change touches. You do not read the contents of the implementation files at those paths, and you do not sample code. The paths are the input to the source resolution in Phase 2; they are not evidence about whether the code matches the description.

Read the full file on GitHub · 225 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. 1mo ago Changed · +7 lines · +3 tokens per session 027317676283
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +18 lines · +19 tokens per session 04559768115d
  3. 1mo ago Changed 1cdc3ec746f3
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 200 lines · 177 tokens per session scan A 1a0b0126bb2b

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alignment-analyst is an agent published in the GitHub repository Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skills (67 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 199 tokens to every session and 3,489 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.

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