evaluate-technology

evaluate-technology is a command for Claude Code from sethdford/claude-skills. It costs 11 tokens per session (84 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for assessing a technology and recording whether it belongs on a technology radar, a list used to track tools and their adoption status.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set evaluation criteria, compare building a solution with buying or adopting one, plan a proof of concept, and write an assessment report.
Why use it?
It gives teams a structured way to decide whether to adopt, test, build, or avoid a technology instead of relying on informal opinions.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the decision-making plugin — 8 skills, 3 commands 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 commands/sethdford/claude-skills/evaluate-technology
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sethdford/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install decision-making, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 3 commands.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 11 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 84 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 5.1 $0.00011 $0.00084
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00042
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00017
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00008

Measured 6d ago against content hash a69f71d230c9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

evaluate-technology 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 6d 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.

architect/decision-making/commands/evaluate-technology.md · 12 lines

What it actually says

Evaluate Technology

  1. Use technology-radar to define assessment criteria
  2. Use build-vs-buy to compare custom vs using technology
  3. Use proof-of-concept-plan to design POC if needed
  4. Position on radar and create report
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. 6d ago First seen · 12 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A a69f71d230c9

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evaluate-technology is a command published in the GitHub repository sethdford/claude-skills (38 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 84 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.