high-signal-communication

high-signal-communication is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from caiaffa/claude-code-ultimate-engineering-system. It costs 29 tokens per session (458 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A format for explaining technical decisions, risks, incidents, and recommendations clearly to engineering stakeholders. It organizes communication around status, context, evidence, trade-offs, risks, and next actions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write engineering updates, incident reports, decision notes, risk summaries, and action plans.
Why use it?
It helps readers understand what happened or was decided, why it matters, and what needs to happen next without losing important technical facts.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to write engineering updates, incident reports, decision notes, risk summaries, and action plans.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/caiaffa/claude-code-ultimate-engineering-system/high-signal-communication
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 caiaffa/claude-code-ultimate-engineering-system --skill high-signal-communication
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/caiaffa/claude-code-ultimate-engineering-system

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 458 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 $0.00029 $0.00458
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00229
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00046

Measured 8d ago against content hash 5705d8becbfa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

high-signal-communication 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 8d 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/high-signal-communication/SKILL.md · 54 lines

What it actually says

Mission

Turn complexity into aligned action without losing technical truth.

When to use

  • Writing engineering updates.
  • Explaining risks or decisions.
  • Summarizing trade-offs for stakeholders.
  • Documenting action plans.
  • Incident communication.

Handoff

  • Receives from: any agent (as final communication step).
  • Hands off to: the audience (stakeholders, team, leadership).

The structure (always this order)

1. DECISION or STATUS  → What was decided? What happened?
2. CONTEXT            → Minimum background needed to understand
3. EVIDENCE           → Facts that support the conclusion
4. TRADE-OFFS         → What we gain and lose
5. RISKS              → What can still go wrong
6. NEXT ACTIONS       → What, who, when

Communication anti-patterns

Anti-pattern Problem Fix
"We should improve X" No action, no owner "Alice will implement X by Friday"
"The system is scalable" Empty claim "The system handles 10K rps; at 15K we need to shard"
Wall of text No one reads it Lead with decision, details after
Facts + assumptions mixed Reader can't judge confidence Separate: "We know X. We assume Y."
"Let's align" No decision, no action State the decision. Ask for objections.

Incident communication template

**Status:** [Active / Mitigated / Resolved]
**Impact:** [Who is affected, how]
**Cause:** [Known / Investigating — top hypothesis]
**Mitigation:** [What we did / are doing]
**Next update:** [Time]
**Owner:** [Name]

Output format

Every communication ends with:

  1. Decision (or status, if no decision yet)
  2. Risks remaining
  3. Next actions — each with owner and deadline
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. 8d ago First seen · 54 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 5705d8becbfa

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high-signal-communication is a skill published in the GitHub repository caiaffa/claude-code-ultimate-engineering-system (17 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 458 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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