dos-promote

dos-promote is a skill for Claude Code from anthony-chaudhary/dos-kernel. It costs 49 tokens per session (1,383 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An operator tool for finding work units that are currently held back from being selected. It explains why each unit is held and what would unblock it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect all units, optionally within one work lane, apply safe reclassifications, and list the remaining actions.
Why use it?
It makes hidden or unpickable work visible, so a person can see whether it needs promotion, more waiting time, or a decision.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the dos-kernel plugin — 18 skills, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to inspect all units, optionally within one work lane, apply safe reclassifications, and list the remaining actions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anthony-chaudhary/dos-kernel/dos-promote
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 anthony-chaudhary/dos-kernel --skill dos-promote
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthony-chaudhary/dos-kernel

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dos-kernel, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,383 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00049 $0.01383
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00691
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00277
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00138

Measured 9d ago against content hash 9dec81fd1605, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dos-promote 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 9d 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.

claude-plugin/skills/dos-promote/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

dos-promote — surface every held unit + its unblock action

Make the invisible pickable. The picker silently drops a unit it cannot offer; /dos-promote does the inverse — it runs the pre-dispatch gate (dos pickable) over every declared unit, and for each one that is HELD it surfaces the unit, its typed hold reason, and the derived unblock action. The hold reason → action routing is data, not a guess: a DRAFT_CLASS hold wants a promotion, a SOAK_OPEN hold wants the clock, an OPERATOR_GATED hold wants a decision. This is the operator-facing half of the shipped pickable primitive.

The shape: enumerate the units → gate each → route each hold to its action → auto-enact only the safe mechanical reclassify → surface the rest. The gate and the enumeration are kernel verbs (dos pickable, dos enumerate); the reason→action routing is derivable from the HoldReason itself.

Inputs

  • --scope <lane> (optional) — limit to one lane from the active [lanes]. Omitted = every declared unit the workspace can see.

Step 0 — Discover the layout

dos doctor --workspace . --json

Read paths.plans_glob (where the plan docs live), lanes (the taxonomy), and lifecycle.classes (the declared class set — which class is the workspace's "draft" / "active"). Use these; never hardcode a plan path or a class name.

Step 1 — Enumerate the declared units

For each plan doc under paths.plans_glob, enumerate the units it declares:

dos enumerate <plan-doc> --json

Read units (the universe), remaining (the not-yet-shipped), and drift — a drift[kind=unparseable] is itself a held-by-UNPARSEABLE signal (the picker-invisibility cure: a typed refusal, never a silent drop). Collect the remaining units across all plans as the candidate set.

Step 2 — Gate each candidate (the pre-dispatch verdict)

For each remaining unit, run the pre-dispatch gate over the unit's host-gathered state (its plan class, soak index, live claims):

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 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. 9d ago First seen · 115 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 9dec81fd1605

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dos-promote is a skill published in the GitHub repository anthony-chaudhary/dos-kernel (19 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,383 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.