altitude-check

altitude-check is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cosai-oasis/secure-ai-tooling. It costs 146 tokens per session (1,206 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A checking guide for deciding whether a risk-map entry is written at the right level of detail. It covers controls, risks, and components, checking that each describes the right kind of thing rather than an implementation detail or duplicate.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when drafting or reviewing a control, risk, or component in the CoSAI Risk Map to test its scope, purpose, and level of detail.
Why use it?
It helps prevent entries that are too vague, too specific, hypothetical, or incorrectly framed. This makes related entries easier to distinguish and maintain.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when drafting or reviewing a control, risk, or component in the CoSAI Risk Map to test its scope, purpose, and level of detail.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cosai-oasis/secure-ai-tooling/altitude-check
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 cosai-oasis/secure-ai-tooling --skill altitude-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cosai-oasis/secure-ai-tooling

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 altitude-check

README.md
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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.

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Per session 146 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,206 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 $0.00146 $0.01206
Opus 5 $0.00073 $0.00603
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00241
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00121

Measured 10d ago against content hash 32e3217bcc3a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

altitude-check 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 10d 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.

scripts/skills/altitude-check/SKILL.md · 45 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 45 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Altitude Check

Altitude is the granularity an entry is pitched at. Too low and it becomes implementation detail or an instance that sprawls into siblings; too high and it dissolves the gap it was meant to name. Most authoring defects are altitude defects, so check altitude before wording.

Run the tests for the entry type. The control, risk, and component tests are all active; run the set matching the entry type.

Control altitude tests

Apply each; report pass or adjust-with-fix.

  • T1 — Objective, not implementation. The control states a capability or objective ("ensure delegation chains are auditable"), not a mechanism ("emit signed delegation spans with correlation IDs to a collector"). The objective survives implementation churn. Fix: lift the mechanism into a description example and restate the objective.
  • T2 — Not a restated risk. A control is the defense framed as a positive capability, not the threat with "prevent" attached. If it reads like the risk inverted, rewrite it as the capability the implementer gains.
  • T3 — Posture, not mandate. A control describes a defensive capability an implementer adopts against their risk appetite; it is not a compliance order. Watch for "must always," universal imperatives, and audit-language.
  • T4 — Solved problem. A known technique achieves the objective. If none does, this is a research gap or a risk to document — not a control. Fix: flag it for the maintainer rather than drafting an aspirational control.
  • T5 — Generalized and grounded. The control names a role/locus, not a product or protocol, and uses established terminology (defer terminology to the classical-lexicon skill). Fix: generalize; keep the product as an example.
  • T6 — Novelty vs absorb. Read risk-map/yaml/controls.yaml. Does an existing control already cover this objective? If so, recommend augmenting that control rather than adding a near-duplicate. If genuinely distinct, state in one sentence what distinguishes it from the nearest existing control.

Read the full file on GitHub · 45 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 45 lines · 146 tokens per session scan A 32e3217bcc3a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

altitude-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository cosai-oasis/secure-ai-tooling (97 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 146 tokens to every session and 1,206 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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