before-you-claim

before-you-claim is a skill for Claude Code from AleksandarBisevac/claude-plugins. It costs 276 tokens per session (2,084 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A change-checking guide that asks seven evidence-based questions before code work is described as complete.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before editing and before declaring a change done, recording which questions apply and what evidence answers them.
Why use it?
It helps catch claims that the code does not support, checks that cannot fail, and fixes that leave the wider problem open.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Good fit Use it before editing and before declaring a change done, recording which questions apply and what evidence answers them.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aleksandarbisevac/claude-plugins/before-you-claim
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 AleksandarBisevac/claude-plugins --skill before-you-claim
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AleksandarBisevac/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 276 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,084 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 $0.00276 $0.02084
Opus 5.5 $0.00110 $0.00834
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00055 $0.00417
Haiku 4.5 $0.00028 $0.00208

Measured 26d ago against content hash 3dd382de5f1b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

before-you-claim 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 26d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/claim-lines.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/skills/before-you-claim/SKILL.md · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Before you claim

Every defect class below was written by an agent that had read the rules and was following them; the moment of writing had no question. This skill is the question — seven of them, each answered with something that can be shown. It holds no rule of its own: no-silent-pass, writing-python and CLAUDE.md say how; this asks did you, on this change, and where is the evidence?

Questions 1, 2, 5 and 7 are one line each because the evals said so. Run against a baseline with no skill on 2026-09-12, twice and on two models, the arms tied on those four at full marks and separated on question 4 both times. They still get asked; they no longer get a paragraph. The runs and their grading are in ../before-you-claim-workspace/iteration-4/benchmark.json.

Two touches

Before the first edit, one line: which questions this change will have to answer (touches: 1, 3, 4). The sweep, the mutation and the second measurement are cheap before the edit and expensive after; naming the question is what gets them done while they are cheap.

Before you say done, the claims: block (shape at the end) — one line per question, each carrying the evidence you gathered or n/a — <reason>. It ends whatever leaves your hands: the commit message when you commit; otherwise your notes, the PR description, or the message back to the orchestrator. There is no "done except the block". A line that asserts where evidence should be ("yes, it fails", no red output shown) is the skill not being used.

The hook that asks for the block sees git commit only after &&, after ;, or at the start of the command — not one that begins its own line under a heredoc, and not -F -. Its silence is not a verdict.

The seven questions

1. What does this sentence claim the code does — and where is the line that does it? The file:line, or the sentence rewritten to say only what the code does. scripts/claim-lines.py <diff> --tree <checkout> lists the added prose that claims behaviour.

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 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. 26d ago First seen · 119 lines · 276 tokens per session scan A 3dd382de5f1b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

before-you-claim is a skill published in the GitHub repository AleksandarBisevac/claude-plugins (4 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 276 tokens to every session and 2,084 once invoked, about $0.0011 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-18.

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