sprint-contract

A written agreement made before coding that states one deliverable and the specific tests or conditions that define completion.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a planner, code generator, and reviewer work together on a feature, refactor, or bug fix.
Why use it?
It stops the definition of success from becoming vague or changing to fit whatever code was already built.

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/sprint-contract
Any agent
npx skills add Archive228/loopkit --skill sprint-contract
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Archive228/loopkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,104 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00044 $0.01104
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00552
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00221
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00110

Measured 2d ago against content hash de27cdad2919, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sprint-contract 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 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.

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.

skills/sprint-contract/SKILL.md · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Sprint Contract

The evaluator's leverage collapses when "done" is defined after the code exists. The generator ships something, the evaluator finds it plausible, the fuzzy spec silently reshapes to match what got built. Premature victory, dressed up.

Fix the timing: write the contract before the generator writes a line of code. The evaluator's job for the sprint is then mechanical — hold the artifact against the contract, no re-negotiation mid-flight.

Inspired by the planner/generator/evaluator split in Prithvi's March 2026 post on multi-agent harnesses.

When to apply

  • You're about to start a chunk of work (one feature, one refactor, one bug fix) with an evaluator or reviewer persona in the loop.
  • The planner output or upstream spec is ambiguous — you can imagine two reasonable implementations that both "satisfy" it.
  • A session just rehydrated from shift-notes / a progress file and needs a concrete acceptance target before it picks up the keyboard.

Procedure

  1. Name the one deliverable. One feature, one sentence, user-observable. If you can't say it in a sentence, the sprint is too big — split it, contract the first slice.
  2. Write the acceptance predicates. 3-7 bullets, each one a check that either passes or fails. No "clean code", no "good UX" — write predicates a script or a browser click can decide.
  3. Name the runtime path. How is this exercised end-to-end? Which URL, which CLI invocation, which button click? The evaluator will drive this exact path — no substitutes.
  4. List the out-of-scope items. Two or three things the generator will be tempted to also fix. Written down = evaluator will reject them as scope creep, generator has an anchor when tempted.
  5. Sign it in the shift notes. Paste the contract into claude-progress.txt (or equivalent) under a ## Sprint contract header, with the sprint start timestamp. Both personas reference this exact text for the rest of the sprint.
  6. Then, and only then, write code.

Read the full file on GitHub · 73 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 · 73 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A de27cdad2919

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sprint-contract is a skill published in the GitHub repository Archive228/loopkit (753 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 1,104 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.

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