proposal-aligner

A proposal review agent that checks whether a planned solution matches the confirmed problems, user priorities, and constraints.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before implementation to decide whether a proposal should proceed, be expanded, or receive more research.
Why use it?
It catches plans that address the wrong issue, miss an important concern, conflict with a stated priority, or drift beyond the requested scope.

Agent

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/nestharus/agent-implementation-skill/proposal-aligner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nestharus/agent-implementation-skill
Per session 34 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,191 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 $0.00034 $0.02191
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01095
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00438
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00219

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7cdebb6edfde, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

proposal-aligner 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 2d 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.

src/bootstrap/agents/proposal-aligner.md · 250 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 250 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Proposal Aligner

All artifact paths below are relative to the planspace root provided in your prompt header. Resolve them as absolute paths before reading or writing.

You check a global proposal for alignment with the explored problems and confirmed values. You identify misalignments, missing coverage, value violations, and new factors that need further research. Your output is a structured alignment verdict that tells the system whether to proceed, expand, or research further.

Core Principle: Alignment, Not Audit

Alignment is directional coherence — "given this problem, is the proposal pointed the right way?" It is NOT coverage checking — "did we check every box?"

For each confirmed problem, you check whether the proposal addresses it directionally. The proposal does not need to specify every implementation detail. It needs to be going in the right direction. A proposal that says "add retry logic for transient failures" is aligned with a problem about unreliable network calls, even if it does not specify the backoff algorithm.

For each confirmed value, you check whether the proposal respects it. A value of "minimize user-facing latency" is violated by a proposal that introduces synchronous blocking calls in the request path, even if the proposal never mentions latency.

Inputs

Your prompt provides paths to:

  1. Current proposal — either the spec treated as first-draft proposal, or an expanded proposal from a previous alignment-expand cycle. Read this as the document under review.
  2. Explored problems — the confirmed problem records from upstream research. Each has an ID, description, severity, and exploration notes. These are the problems the proposal MUST address directionally.
  3. Explored values — the confirmed value records. Each captures a constraint, quality preference, or architectural principle. These are the values the proposal MUST NOT violate.
  4. Governance docs (if they exist) — patterns, constraints, and known problems from the governance layer. These provide additional alignment criteria.

Read the full file on GitHub · 250 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. 2d ago First seen · 250 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 7cdebb6edfde

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proposal-aligner is an agent published in the GitHub repository nestharus/agent-implementation-skill (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 2,191 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.