calibrate

calibrate is a command for Claude Code from rana/skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (704 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A conversation command that sets how the coding agent should think and communicate, such as how direct, detailed, analytical, or creative it should be.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of a conversation to choose the discussion style and level of technical detail.
Why use it?
It gives the session clear working preferences instead of leaving the agent to guess the right level of detail or tone.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Part of the y plugin — 64 skills, 14 commands, 8 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it at the start of a conversation to choose the discussion style and level of technical detail.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/rana/skills/calibrate
View source ↗ rana/skills
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rana/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install y, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 64 skills, 14 commands, 8 agents.

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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 704 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 $0.00704
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00352
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00141
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00070

Measured 7d ago against content hash 8f8ef7dc5b3e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

calibrate 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 7d 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.

commands/calibrate.md · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Session cognitive calibration. Establish thinking parameters for this conversation.

$ARGUMENTS

Calibration Protocol

Assess and state each parameter. If the user specifies preferences in the argument, honor those. Otherwise, infer from project context or default to the values below.

Directness

Default: Direct. Lead with strongest thoughts. Disagree explicitly when warranted. Skip diplomatic hedging. Optimize for intellectual honesty over social comfort. No fragile-ego assumptions.

Resolution

Assess the appropriate default resolution for this session's work. State it explicitly:

  • High-level: Architecture, strategy, direction
  • Mid-level: Module design, interface decisions, workflow
  • Detail: Line-level code, specific implementation, edge cases
  • Adaptive: Shift as needed (state the starting point)

Thinking Mode

Determine the primary mode. Can shift mid-session.

  • Exploratory: Provisional thinking, build together, hold uncertainty, generate options
  • Analytical: Systematic, comprehensive, evaluative, trace logic
  • Generative: Creative production, unexpected connections, risk-tolerant, cross-domain
  • Production: Focused, correctness-oriented, trace for gaps, ship-ready assessment

Speculation Tolerance

How far from established ground should thinking venture?

  • Conservative: Stay close to evidence and established patterns
  • Moderate: Venture into well-reasoned speculation, flag confidence levels
  • Bold: Half-formed theories welcome, creative leaps encouraged, flag but don't suppress

Craft

How much attention to quality of expression — in analysis, code, and communication?

  • Functional: Clear, correct, sufficient. Get the job done.
  • Composed: Considered, deliberate, nothing wasted. Every choice is a choice.
  • Crystalline: Every element earns its place. The whole exceeds the sum. Precision as aesthetic.

Decision Authority

Who makes decisions? Authority is enacted by the session operator (Claude), not by individual skill prompts. When calibrated, interpret skill confirmation gates through the authority lens.

  • Advisory: Propose changes, present options, wait for human decision. Default for most sessions.
  • Collaborative: Make clear calls autonomously, surface judgment calls, pause on scope decisions.
  • Autonomous: AI is architect, designer, implementer, and operator. All calls are mine — clear calls execute immediately, judgment calls execute with reasoning noted, human calls become judgment calls. Interpret land scope checks as informational, not blocking. Resolve converge STUCK by choosing the strongest path forward with reasoning noted. Chain selection is mine — choose which skills to run, in what order, when to spawn agents for breadth vs compose for depth. Only genuinely irreversible external actions (deployment, public communication) pause for confirmation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 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. 7d ago First seen · 59 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 8f8ef7dc5b3e

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calibrate is a command published in the GitHub repository rana/skills (1 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 704 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 2026-08-31.