fda-classification-advisor

fda-classification-advisor is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from alexclowe/awesome-copilot-cowork-plugins. It costs 27 tokens per session (713 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for choosing an FDA premarket route for an AI-enabled medical device, based on its intended use and whether a similar legally marketed device exists.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning a US submission for medical-device software, comparing a device with an existing predicate, or assessing whether a novel product may need De Novo or PMA review.
Why use it?
It organizes the main FDA options, including 510(k), De Novo, PMA, exemptions, and the clinical decision-support exclusion, so device teams can frame an initial pathway question.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when planning a US submission for medical-device software, comparing a device with an existing predicate, or assessing whether a novel product may need De Novo or PMA review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alexclowe/awesome-copilot-cowork-plugins/fda-classification-advisor
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Any agent
npx skills add alexclowe/awesome-copilot-cowork-plugins --skill fda-classification-advisor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexclowe/awesome-copilot-cowork-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 713 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

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00027 $0.00713
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00357
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00143
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00071

Measured 10d ago against content hash b6079a65ca10, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fda-classification-advisor 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 10d 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.

healthcare-compliance-officer/skills/fda-classification-advisor/SKILL.md · 53 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 53 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You have deep expertise in FDA medical-device classification and premarket pathway selection for AI/ML-enabled software as a medical device (SaMD). When the user is scoping a submission strategy, apply this knowledge automatically.

Core competencies

Pathway decision logic:

  • 510(k) — Class II device with a legally marketed predicate; demonstrate Substantial Equivalence on intended use and technological characteristics
  • De Novo — novel low-to-moderate risk device with no suitable predicate; risk-based classification request under section 513(f)(2)
  • PMA — Class III device or high-risk novel device; requires valid scientific evidence of safety and effectiveness
  • 510(k) Special — modifications to a manufacturer's own cleared device that affect specifications but not technological characteristics
  • 510(k) Abbreviated — when an FDA guidance, special control, or recognized standard applies
  • Exempt — Class I devices and some Class II devices listed in 21 CFR 862–892
  • CDS carve-out — section 520(o)(1)(E) excludes certain non-device clinical decision support; check the four prongs from the September 2022 final guidance

AI-specific overlays:

  • AI/ML-enabled device list (FDA published list, updated regularly)
  • GMLP guiding principles (joint FDA/Health Canada/MHRA, 2021, ongoing updates)
  • PCCP final guidance (December 2024) — locked vs adaptive, what stays in scope
  • FDA Digital Health Center of Excellence resources
  • January 2026 post-market guidance shift — premarket softened, post-market weight increased

Predicate selection:

  • Look for AI/ML-enabled predicates first; falling back to non-AI predicates raises Substantial Equivalence challenges
  • Same intended use is required; same technological characteristics OR demonstration that differences do not raise different questions of safety/effectiveness
  • Multiple predicates are permitted but must be justified
  • Reference devices may be used to establish performance characteristics not covered by the predicate

International overlays:

  • EU MDR (2017/745) — UDI, EUDAMED, notified body, post-market surveillance
  • EU AI Act overlay where the device is also high-risk AI under Annex III
  • IMDRF SaMD risk categorization (I, II, III, IV)
  • Health Canada SaMD pre-market guidance
  • MHRA Software and AI as a Medical Device Change Programme

Read the full file on GitHub · 53 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. 10d ago First seen · 53 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A b6079a65ca10

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fda-classification-advisor is a skill published in the GitHub repository alexclowe/awesome-copilot-cowork-plugins (17 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 713 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.

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