validating-models-and-claims

validating-models-and-claims is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aiopshwang/data-analysis-ml-agent-skills. It costs 58 tokens per session (837 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for checking whether a trained model or analysis supports the claim being made about it. It compares the claim with evidence from the right population, conditions, time period, and human-reviewed answers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review model performance, analysis conclusions, launch claims, evaluation reports, subgroup results, and evidence for production decisions.
Why use it?
It helps avoid treating one good score, chart, or test as proof that an entire system works. It exposes claims that are too broad, weakly supported, or missing important failure costs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the data-analysis-ml-agent-skills plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review model performance, analysis conclusions, launch claims, evaluation reports, subgroup results, and evidence for production decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aiopshwang/data-analysis-ml-agent-skills/validating-models-and-claims
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.

Any agent
npx skills add aiopshwang/data-analysis-ml-agent-skills --skill validating-models-and-claims
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aiopshwang/data-analysis-ml-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install data-analysis-ml-agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 837 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 $0.00058 $0.00837
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00418
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00167
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00084

Measured 11d ago against content hash 12548bcea02f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

validating-models-and-claims 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 11d 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.

skills/validating-models-and-claims/SKILL.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Validating Models and Claims

Decide what the available evidence actually supports. Treat a metric, chart, or successful run as evidence for a bounded claim, not as proof that the full system works.

Start with the claim

Write each material claim in a falsifiable form before selecting evidence:

  • the decision or action the claim will influence;
  • the population, unit of analysis, prediction horizon, and operating conditions;
  • the comparator and practical improvement threshold;
  • the cost of false positives, false negatives, abstention, and delay;
  • the evidence that would refute or narrow the claim.

If these are unresolved and materially change the evaluation, surface the choice instead of silently selecting a convenient definition.

Build an evidence contract

For every claim, map the claim's scope to evidence of equal scope. A component test cannot establish end-to-end readiness; aggregate accuracy cannot establish subgroup safety; retrospective fit cannot establish future performance.

Separate at least these evidence sources when they exist:

  1. development evidence used to choose features, thresholds, or models;
  2. untouched or independently collected validation evidence;
  3. human-reviewed ground truth and its adjudication record;
  4. operational evidence produced under the real inference path.

Do not describe reused tuning data as independent validation. Record every contact with the evaluation set, including manual error review that influenced a subsequent model choice.

When label correctness depends on expertise or judgment, preserve the human ground-truth process: reviewer qualifications, instructions, blinding, disagreement rate, adjudication, unresolved cases, and sampling frame. Model agreement with noisy labels is not accuracy against reality.

Validate in layers

Use the smallest set of checks that covers the actual claim:

  • Semantic validity: target, timestamps, joins, exclusions, and units mean what the claim assumes.
  • Evaluation integrity: split boundaries, leakage controls, comparator, threshold selection, and metric implementation are valid.
  • Performance: report uncertainty and practical effect size, not only a point estimate.
  • Slices and errors: inspect decision-relevant subgroups, rare cases, temporal drift, missingness patterns, and high-cost errors.
  • Operational fidelity: when the claim includes deployment or operational behavior, exercise the same preprocessing, feature availability, threshold, and output interpretation used in practice. Otherwise record why this layer is not applicable.
  • Claim calibration: narrow the final language to what all completed evidence supports.

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 11d ago First seen · 72 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 12548bcea02f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

validating-models-and-claims is a skill published in the GitHub repository aiopshwang/data-analysis-ml-agent-skills (12 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 837 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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