decision-variance

decision-variance is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from arbiterForge/codeArbiter. It costs 81 tokens per session (2,211 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A workflow for comparing a project's architectural documents with its original scaffold and earlier decisions. It presents differences as structured analyses for the user to resolve.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to reconcile architectural context, review conflicts between decision records, and decide how project variances should be handled.
Why use it?
It makes conflicting or outdated design information visible before it causes inconsistent implementation decisions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/arbiterforge/codearbiter/decision-variance
Any agent
npx skills add arbiterForge/codeArbiter --skill decision-variance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arbiterForge/codeArbiter

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

agentmods badge for decision-variance

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/arbiterforge/codearbiter/decision-variance"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/arbiterforge/codearbiter/decision-variance.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,211 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00081 $0.02211
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.01105
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00442
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00221

Measured 3d ago against content hash e904fb3dcc97, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

decision-variance 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 3d 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.

core/surface/skills/decision-variance/SKILL.md · 148 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 3d ago First seen · 148 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A e904fb3dcc97

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decision-variance is a skill published in the GitHub repository arbiterForge/codeArbiter (142 stars, last pushed today), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 2,211 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

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