broken-window-check

A check that tests the most recently completed feature through its real runtime path before more work begins. This means using the browser, HTTP request, or command-line path rather than only unit tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of each new coding session to verify the last completed feature against its specification. If it fails, reopen and repair that feature before selecting new work.
Why use it?
A feature can pass isolated tests while still failing end to end, meaning the complete user flow does not work. Finding that break early prevents later features from depending on it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/archive228/loopkit/broken-window-check
Any agent
npx skills add Archive228/loopkit --skill broken-window-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Archive228/loopkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 830 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00046 $0.00830
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00415
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00166
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00083

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8ebb02364839, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

broken-window-check scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 2d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

| HTTP endpoint | `curl` the route → check status + body | Unit test on the handler function |
skills/broken-window-check/SKILL.md · 56 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 56 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Broken-Window Check

Across shift-notes-driven sessions (see shift-notes), agents will sometimes mark a feature complete after unit tests pass — even when the feature is end-to-end broken. The next session opens the repo, sees a green git log, and builds on top of a broken foundation. By the time anyone notices, three features are stacked on the crack.

The check: before picking new work, exercise the most recently "completed" feature end-to-end. If it fails, treat it as your only job this session.

The sequence — run in order, no skipping

  1. Read the last "done" entry in the shift notes / feature list (whichever the project uses).
  2. Drive the feature end-to-end using the actual runtime path — browser automation, HTTP request, CLI invocation. Not the unit test.
  3. Compare observed behavior to the spec — the steps field on the feature, or the acceptance criteria in the spec.
  4. If it works — proceed to normal work selection. Note the check in the shift notes ("verified feature N still green").
  5. If it fails
    • git revert the commit that claimed completion (do not force-push).
    • Set that feature's status back to not-done in the feature list.
    • Note in shift notes: "reverted feature N, cause: ".
    • Fix it. That is your entire session.

Do not pick new work on top of a broken previous feature. Ever.

What "end-to-end" means

The check must exercise the path the user actually takes. Anything less is theater.

Feature shape Valid check Invalid check
Web UI button Puppeteer/Playwright click → observe DOM expect(handler).toHaveBeenCalled()
HTTP endpoint curl the route → check status + body Unit test on the handler function
CLI flag Invoke the binary with the flag → observe output Import the parser, assert on the AST
Background job Trigger it → wait → assert side effect Assert the job function returns

Red flags — the check is not doing its job

  • You're reading tests instead of running the feature. Tests can pass while the feature is broken (wrong route, missing CORS, config mismatch). Drive the runtime.
  • You add a mock to make the check pass. The mock is the bug. Remove it, watch the failure, that's the real state.
  • You "fix" by editing the feature list to match reality ("oh it never supported X"). No. Revert. Re-open. Fix the code or negotiate scope in the spec, not the ledger.
  • You skip the check because "it worked yesterday". Yesterday's session doesn't run today's dev server.

Read the full file on GitHub · 56 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. 2d ago First seen · 56 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 8ebb02364839

Subscribe to this mod's changes

broken-window-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository Archive228/loopkit (753 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 830 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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