Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to cpuguy96/StepCOVNet. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cpuguy96/StepCOVNet/master/.cursor/skills/steering-correction-promotion/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cpuguy96/StepCOVNetWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/cpuguy96/stepcovnet/steering-correction-promotion)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cpuguy96/stepcovnet/steering-correction-promotion"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cpuguy96/stepcovnet/steering-correction-promotion/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cpuguy96/stepcovnet/steering-correction-promotion"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cpuguy96/stepcovnet/steering-correction-promotion.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- high Rogue Agent · line 58 Skill modifies its own code, configuration, or behavior at runtime. Self-modification enables an agent to escalate privileges, disable safety constraints, or install persistent backdoors.Fix: Prevent the skill from modifying its own code, SKILL.md, or configuration files. Treat skill files as read-only at runtime.
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00061 | $0.01230 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00024 | $0.00492 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00012 | $0.00246 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00123 |
Grade A, and why
steering-correction-promotion 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 2mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Steering correction promotion
Run this skill in the same turn as any user steering correction — how you decide, operate, route, log, or commit. Finish with artifact + JRN + brief confirmation.
Also invoked from agent-self-improvement.
Context budget (optimize every promotion)
| Layer | Cost | Use for |
|---|---|---|
alwaysApply: true rules |
Every turn — add sparingly; merge or scope when possible | Routing, portable paths, Python env — only what every task needs |
globs rules |
When matching files are in play | Script execution, docs schema, test patterns |
| Skills | When task matches or agent opens skill | How to decide or run — not live F1 / EXP ids / today's Next action |
| Current phase | Live scoreboard | Next action, blockers, run numbers — EXPERIMENT_LOG.md |
AGENTS.md |
Router only — stay thin | One index table; no procedure prose |
| Self-journal | Receipt — not loaded every turn | Audit trail with Artifact path |
Default: prefer skill section or scoped rule over a new alwaysApply rule. Put live experiment state in Current phase, not in the skill body.
Decision tree
Answer in order; stop at the first fit.
1. Multi-step procedure (train, debug playbook, log EXP)?
→ Extend existing skill OR new skill + skills README row
→ AGENTS.md: new index row ONLY if nothing routes there yet
2. Only matters when editing/running certain paths?
→ Scoped rule (.mdc with globs, alwaysApply: false)
→ Merge into existing scoped rule if same glob family (e.g. scripts/**)
3. Universal but <5 lines and same topic as an existing alwaysApply rule?
→ Merge into that rule — do NOT add a new file
4. Truly required on EVERY turn (safety, entry routing)?
→ alwaysApply rule — LAST RESORT
→ Keep under ~40 lines; regenerate [agent-brain.md](../../../docs/agents/agent-brain.md)
5. One-off preference for this session only?
→ Chat — no JRN unless user says remember this
6. Mechanical bug with a code fix?
→ Code/tests first; optional scoped rule if agents keep repeating it
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 97 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 96c6903e1c1c
steering-correction-promotion is a skill published in the GitHub repository cpuguy96/StepCOVNet (22 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 1,230 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.
steering-correction-promotion compared with skills from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| steering-correction-promotioncpuguy96/StepCOVNet | Skill | 22 | 27d ago | Apache-2.0 | A | 61 | Claude Code, Cursor |
| flow-nexus-neuralruvnet/ruflo | Skill | 81k | today | MIT | A | 21 | Claude Code |
| developing-with-streamlitstreamlit/streamlit | Skill | 46k | today | Apache-2.0 | A | 146 | Claude Code |
| physicsnemo-shard-tensorNVIDIA/physicsnemo | Skill | 3.4k | today | Apache-2.0 | A | 152 | Claude Code, Codex |
| physicsnemo-discoverNVIDIA/physicsnemo | Skill | 3.4k | today | Apache-2.0 | A | 124 | Claude Code, Codex |
| lepton-clileptonai/leptonai | Skill | 2.8k | 2d ago | Apache-2.0 | A | 122 | Claude Code |
| memoryopensquilla/opensquilla | Skill | 7.1k | 7d ago | Apache-2.0 | A | 44 | Claude Code, Codex |