expectations

expectations is a skill for Claude Code from citypaul/.dotfiles. It costs 149 tokens per session (916 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

Guidance for recording discoveries, practical warnings, and decisions in a lasting place while project context is still fresh. It helps decide whether knowledge belongs in code, tests, a glossary, an architecture decision record, plans, or repository guidance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after learning a technical fact, making a design decision, finding a recurring gotcha, or deciding where reusable or project-specific guidance should live.
Why use it?
Important project knowledge can be lost in conversations or in a developer’s memory. Recording it in the right place makes it available when the same issue comes up again.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it after learning a technical fact, making a design decision, finding a recurring gotcha, or deciding where reusable or project-specific guidance should live.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/citypaul/.dotfiles/expectations
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 citypaul/.dotfiles --skill expectations
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/citypaul/.dotfiles

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for expectations

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/citypaul/.dotfiles/expectations/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/citypaul/.dotfiles/expectations)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/citypaul/.dotfiles/expectations"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/citypaul/.dotfiles/expectations/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for expectations

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/citypaul/.dotfiles/expectations"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/citypaul/.dotfiles/expectations.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 149 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 916 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 unknown 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 $0.00149 $0.00916
Opus 5 $0.00075 $0.00458
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00183
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00092

Measured 7d ago against content hash cef87ff03be3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

expectations 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 7d 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.

claude/.claude/skills/expectations/SKILL.md · 81 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 7d ago Changed · +88 tokens per session cef87ff03be3
  2. 10d ago First seen · 81 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 34d710171779

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expectations is a skill published in the GitHub repository citypaul/.dotfiles (728 stars, last pushed 3d ago), with no licence file. It adds 149 tokens to every session and 916 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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