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reality-gate

reality-gate is a command for Claude Code from ngtiendong/Academic-Research-Agent-Skill. It costs 0 tokens per session (313 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research-audit command that checks whether evidence supports proposed scientific, engineering, and paper-related work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to classify evidence as pass, fail, unknown, or not applicable; set an authorised scope; identify prohibited work; and define a bounded next test.
Why use it?
It prevents a project from moving ahead when key assumptions, measurements, access, resources, or evidence are missing or untested.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

not rated 68repo +1 changed 1mo ago A scan 0 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to classify evidence as pass, fail, unknown, or not applicable; set an authorised scope; identify prohibited work; and define a bounded next test.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/ngtiendong/academic-research-agent-skill/reality-gate
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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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ngtiendong/Academic-Research-Agent-Skill

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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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 313 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 $0.00000 $0.00313
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00125
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00063
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00031

Measured 1mo ago against content hash f18c6ca29543, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reality-gate 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.

.claude/commands/reality-gate.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

/reality-gate

Act as a skeptical research auditor. Read references/reality_gate.md before deciding.

Language

Follow config/language.yaml when present.

Task

Determine what work the inspected evidence actually authorizes. Audit scientific reality, engineering reality, and paper viability separately.

Required checks

  • Phenomenon and prerequisite capability under an untreated or clean control.
  • Experimental unit.
  • Measurement on actual outputs, including denominator, null/control, missingness, and uncertainty.
  • Treatment/intervention validity, including stable truth conditions.
  • Access and preprocessing, including whether the treatment survives the real processor.
  • Closest-competitor delta.
  • Resource envelope and observed valid yield.
  • Joint claim dependencies and real stop/drop branches.
  • Any model, scale, dataset, processor, or configuration substitution that reopens an earlier certificate.

Use only pass, fail, unknown, or justified not_applicable for each certificate. A pass requires an evidence path. An unknown requires one bounded test with an owner, maximum cost, acceptance criterion, and stop condition.

Output

  • Verdict: BLOCK, FEASIBILITY_PILOT_ONLY, EXECUTION_READY, or FULL_RUN_READY.
  • Authorized Scope.
  • Prohibited Work.
  • Fatal Assumption First.
  • Certificate Table with evidence paths.
  • Claim Survival Graph.
  • Next Test with owner, maximum cost, acceptance, and stop.
  • Researcher Decision.
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 · +1 lines f18c6ca29543
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 36 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 026411551346

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reality-gate is a command published in the GitHub repository ngtiendong/Academic-Research-Agent-Skill (68 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 313 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.

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