gloss-drift-audit

gloss-drift-audit is a skill for Claude Code from augchan42/inkstone. It costs 91 tokens per session (1,615 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checking process for content derived from corrected or re-read classical Chinese source texts. It follows the chain from the original text to its translation or gloss, image prompt, and rendered image.

In plain words
What is it for?
Auditing source-text corrections, checking translations and glosses, identifying affected image prompts, and limiting image re-rendering to assets whose meaning changed.
Why use it?
It helps find translations and image prompts that still rely on an older or incorrect reading. It also separates content that is merely out of date from content that was wrong from the start.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the inkstone plugin — 21 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Auditing source-text corrections, checking translations and glosses, identifying affected image prompts, and limiting image re-rendering to assets whose meaning changed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/augchan42/inkstone/gloss-drift-audit
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 augchan42/inkstone --skill gloss-drift-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/augchan42/inkstone

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install inkstone, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 1 hook.

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Per session 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,615 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.
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 $0.00091 $0.01615
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00807
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00323
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00161

Measured 9d ago against content hash 88d9557d3d9c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gloss-drift-audit 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.

skills/gloss-drift-audit/SKILL.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Gloss Drift Audit

When a source text is corrected, everything derived from it inherits the old reading. This skill is the order of operations for finding what inherited it — and, just as important, for not re-deriving the 96% that is fine.

The chain

source ──► gloss ──► prompt ──► rendered asset
  free      free       free        PAID

Every arrow can change meaning. Cost is flat until the last one. That asymmetry dictates the whole order: settle meaning first, move prompts only where meaning actually moved, render once at the end.

Two failure classes — do not conflate them

Movement staleness Meaning error
What happened source moved under the gloss gloss was wrong the day it was written
Detectable? yes — stamp the source digest per axis no — nothing in the text reveals it
Self-clearing? yes, on restamp no
Typical measure sha(source) != stamp none exists by default

The trap: a corpus with a green staleness report can be full of mistranslations. A real case — a verse glossed 祈父 (an office: Minister of War, from 《詩經·小雅·祈父》) as "his father" — was never stale for a moment. Its source had not moved in years. Every gate said PASS.

If your only instrument is a digest comparison, you are measuring bookkeeping and calling it correctness.

Order of operations

  1. Re-measure the baseline first. A baseline taken after a fix cannot show the fix worked. Expect the number to have moved since it was last written — derived edits ride along with unrelated passes.
  2. Exclude dead data. Rows superseded downstream (editorial rewrites, overrides) often keep a stale field that nothing renders. Comparing it manufactures findings no reader will ever see. In one audit, 9 of the 10 worst-scoring rows were dead data.
  3. Run the free comparison (below), knowing its coverage.
  4. Run the register (below). This is the instrument with reach.
  5. Correct glosses. Restamp that axis only.
  6. Re-judge prompts for exactly the corrected rows — never all of them. Prompt and gloss were authored together from the same reading, so correcting one convicts the other. But check: a generic prompt may be right either way and cost nothing.
  7. Render last, once.

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 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 · 100 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A 88d9557d3d9c

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gloss-drift-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository augchan42/inkstone (4 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 1,615 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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