grade-iterate

grade-iterate is a skill for Claude Code from alirezarezvani/claude-skills. It costs 194 tokens per session (1,060 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A bounded grade-and-iterate workflow checks an agent's work against a written rubric and decides whether to revise, rerun, ship, or escalate. A rubric is a list of criteria used to judge whether work meets the required standard.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for defining agent outcomes, reading isolated grading results, applying targeted fixes, and running held-back evaluation cases after a version passes.
Why use it?
It prevents open-ended attempts to improve an agent and makes failures lead to a defined next step.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Codex; mentions Gemini CLI; mentions OpenCode.

Part of the agent-launcher-skills plugin — 6 skills, 8 commands, 4 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit It is for defining agent outcomes, reading isolated grading results, applying targeted fixes, and running held-back evaluation cases after a version passes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alirezarezvani/claude-skills/grade-iterate
About the project

claude-skills is a large collection of reusable skills, commands, plugins, and supporting resources for coding agents across engineering, business, research, compliance, and productivity work. It is used by people who want agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, or Cursor to follow specialized workflows. The catalogue contains selected skills and settings from the collection.

alirezarezvani/claude-skills · 28,607 stars · on GitHub · alirezarezvani.medium.com

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 alirezarezvani/claude-skills --skill grade-iterate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-launcher-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 8 commands, 4 agents, 2 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 194 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,060 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 $0.00194 $0.01060
Opus 5.5 $0.00078 $0.00424
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00039 $0.00212
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00106

Measured today against content hash 601c5e8d0061, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

grade-iterate 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 today.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/eval_scaffold.py, scripts/outcome_builder.py, scripts/verdict_reader.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.

agent-launcher/skills/grade-iterate/SKILL.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Phase 3 — Grade → Iterate (the bounded loop)

This is the plugin's loop: CMA's outcome primitive self-grades the agent's work in an isolated context and feeds failing verdicts back for the next attempt. It is always bounded by max_iterations (1..20) — never "improve forever".

See ../../references/loops-and-workflows.md and the outcome section of ../../references/cma-primitives.md.

Workflow

  1. Define the outcome.
    python3 scripts/outcome_builder.py \
      --sheet ./my-agent/build-sheet.json --max-iterations 5 \
      --out ./my-agent/payloads/outcome.json
    
    The rubric is required; max_iterations is clamped to 1..20. Send the payload as a user.define_outcome event (append to the running session).
  2. Read every verdict first.
    python3 scripts/verdict_reader.py --result ./my-agent/last-verdict.json
    
    Tables the rubric outcome and recommends: SHIP (satisfied), SHARPEN then re-run (needs_revision), ESCALATE (max_iterations_reached / failed), RESUME (interrupted). With ≤1 iteration left it flips to "make the single highest-value fix or escalate now".
  3. Loop invariant. Each iteration must move ≥1 rubric line fail→pass, or the run halts at the cap and escalates. Don't burn the budget on cosmetic edits.
  4. Once a version passes, run held-back eval.
    python3 scripts/eval_scaffold.py \
      --sheet ./my-agent/build-sheet.json --out ./my-agent/eval.json --concurrency 5
    
    Held-back cases (never seen during iteration) run in parallel, capped at the 25-thread CMA ceiling, each graded against the same rubric.
  5. Decide. SHIP as v0, or promote to a scheduled deployment (Phase 4). Record the verdict on the goal: goal_state.py set --phase run-without-you.

Hard rules

  • Bounded, always. No outcome without a max_iterations cap.
  • Read the verdict before acting. The grader's explanation drives the next move.
  • Held-back cases are held back. Never grade generalization on cases the agent already iterated against.

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. today First seen · 75 lines · 194 tokens per session scan A 601c5e8d0061

Subscribe to this mod's changes

grade-iterate is a skill published in the GitHub repository alirezarezvani/claude-skills (28,607 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 194 tokens to every session and 1,060 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-10-24.

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