anti-ceremony

anti-ceremony is a skill for Claude Code from boshu2/agentops. It costs 33 tokens per session (793 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A brief check that keeps work focused on the requested outcome and the evidence still needed to support it. The full audit mode is used only when explicitly requested.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before planning to decide whether work should continue or stop. It returns a CONTINUE or STOP decision without creating tracking documents or changing the repository.
Why use it?
It helps stop process work that has no concrete user, release, defect, or retirement purpose. It also identifies the missing implementation or independent proof and the condition that ends the work.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the agentops plugin — 55 skills, 2 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it before planning to decide whether work should continue or stop. It returns a CONTINUE or STOP decision without creating tracking documents or changing the repository.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/boshu2/agentops/anti-ceremony
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 boshu2/agentops --skill anti-ceremony
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/boshu2/agentops

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agentops, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 55 skills, 2 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 793 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00033 $0.00793
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00396
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00159
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00079

Measured today against content hash 9588de86304a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

anti-ceremony 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 today.

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.

images/gemini/skills/anti-ceremony/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Anti-Ceremony

Keep work tied to the caller-visible outcome and the proof still needed for it. The default guard is a single, artifact-free judgment before RPI Plan; the full honesty audit runs only on an explicit "full anti-ceremony audit" request.

Prompt

Quick guard. Outcome: "ao gate check lists the probe-coverage row". Proposed
process work: a coverage dashboard and a second audit pass. Remaining proof:
the gate row, green in CI. Stop condition: that gate passes on main.

It's working if

  • The response is the YAML shape below and nothing else: no file appears under .agents/, and no tracker write is issued.
  • reason: is one sentence, and parked_process_work: names the dashboard-shaped items.
  • A full audit appears only after the caller wrote full anti-ceremony audit.

Quick guard

  1. Freeze the caller-visible outcome in one short statement.
  2. Park proposed process work that has no concrete consumer, gated subject or release decision, observed defect, or retirement condition.
  3. Name the implementation or independent proof still missing.
  4. Name the condition that ends this traversal.
  5. Return STOP when the traversal would only create control artifacts or the frozen outcome is already sufficiently proved; otherwise return CONTINUE.

Progress needs evidence tied to acceptance or a named blocking uncertainty. Digest movement, finding counts, and additional reviews alone earn no credit. Informative red can justify a different experiment inside an explicitly selected outer goal's unchanged acceptance and allowance; repeated no-information work cannot. Keep required independent proof in remaining_proof, including every necessary unresolved finding. Apply Validate's effect-based risk rule to the cost of proof; never weaken the exact-subject or all-acceptance PASS bar.

Perform the guard exactly once in memory. Parking is a field in the response, not a tracker or delivery mutation. Return this shape:

decision: CONTINUE | STOP
reason: <exactly one sentence>
frozen_outcome: <nonempty string>
parked_process_work: [<work item>, ...]
remaining_proof: [<proof item>, ...]
stop_condition: <nonempty string>

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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. today Changed · +8 lines 9588de86304a
  2. 5d ago Changed · +3 lines f5ba0a5f7703
  3. 9d ago First seen · 84 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A c10d2b26d8ea

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anti-ceremony is a skill published in the GitHub repository boshu2/agentops (433 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 793 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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