behavior-contract

behavior-contract is a skill for Claude Code from a5c-ai/babysitter. It costs 25 tokens per session (535 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A way to describe a bug's triggering condition, expected result, and existing behavior that must remain unchanged as testable rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define bugfix tests, preservation tests, expected outputs, and error conditions.
Why use it?
It makes bug fixes precise and helps prevent a fix from breaking behavior that already works.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: positional $N argument.

About the project

Babysitter is a workflow engine for AI coding agents that enforces predefined steps, quality checks, human approvals, and decision records. It is used to coordinate complex, repeatable agent workflows across supported coding tools. The catalogue contains skills, agents, instructions, settings, a plugin, and an MCP integration for its workflow.

a5c-ai/babysitter · 1,770 stars · on GitHub · a5c.ai

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 skills/a5c-ai/babysitter/behavior-contract
Any agent
npx skills add a5c-ai/babysitter --skill behavior-contract
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 535 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 $0.00025 $0.00535
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00267
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00107
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00053

Measured 2d ago against content hash fbdb58309042, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

behavior-contract 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.

library/methodologies/pilot-shell/skills/behavior-contract/SKILL.md · 63 lines

What it actually says

  • "Positive amounts still process correctly"
  • "Negative amounts still throw InvalidAmountError"
  • "Receipt format remains unchanged for all amount types"

Contract Document Template

# Behavior Contract: [Bug Title]

## Bug Condition
[Precise description of triggering conditions]

## Postcondition
[Expected correct behavior after fix]

## Invariants
- [ ] Invariant 1: [existing behavior to preserve]
- [ ] Invariant 2: [existing behavior to preserve]

## Testable Assertions
1. `expect(processPayment(0)).toEqual({ amount: 0, status: 'completed' })`
2. `expect(processPayment(100)).toEqual({ amount: 100, status: 'completed' })`
3. `expect(() => processPayment(-1)).toThrow(InvalidAmountError)`

Usage in Bugfix Workflow

  1. Bug analysis identifies root cause at file:line
  2. This skill formalizes the contract from the analysis
  3. tdd-enforcer writes failing test from Bug Condition
  4. tdd-enforcer writes preservation tests from Invariants
  5. Minimal fix applied, contract audited
Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 63 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A fbdb58309042

Subscribe to this mod's changes

behavior-contract is a skill published in the GitHub repository a5c-ai/babysitter (1,770 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 535 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 2026-09-03.