Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to ashishpatill/tell-proof. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ashishpatill/tell-proof/master/.cursor/skills/gates-until-verified/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ashishpatill/tell-proofWrote 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.
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ashishpatill/tell-proof/gates-until-verified"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ashishpatill/tell-proof/gates-until-verified.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00047 | $0.00297 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00023 | $0.00148 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00059 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00030 |
Grade A, and why
gates-until-verified 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.
What it actually says
gates-until-verified
Preserve the original task. Strengthen the process.
1. Lock the task contract
Outcome, audience, inputs, constraints, definition of done.
2. Convert ambition into gates
| Gate | Method | Pass | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Craft / detectors | Tell diagnose or critique | No new generic tells; score ≥ prior | report JSON |
| Contrast / a11y | basics checklist + focus-visible | Pass | checklist / screenshot |
| Proof / workflow | Visual inspection | Sample labeled; human gate present | screenshot |
| Types / tests | pnpm test + typecheck |
Green | command output |
3. Separate making from judging
Implementer does not sole-approve. Verifier sees task + gates + artifact — not self-assessment.
4. Loop
Produce → run gates → record pass/fail → smallest fix → re-check affected gates.
5. Stop honestly
All required gates pass, or name the blocker. Never weaken a gate to declare success.
Related: tell-proof-verify, design-research-loop, tell-dogfood-audit.
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 31 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A f6d056a2cb9a
gates-until-verified is a skill published in the GitHub repository ashishpatill/tell-proof (1 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 297 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 2026-08-31.
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