auditing-commitments

auditing-commitments is a skill for Claude Code from danielkinneyspears/federal-proposal-skills. It costs 118 tokens per session (2,132 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A review of a US federal proposal draft that finds promises and obligations, then checks whether each one is required by the solicitation (the government’s request for bids).

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review “we will,” “we shall,” “we guarantee,” and similar language, link promises to requirements, and identify costly overcommitments.
Why use it?
It helps prevent the bidder from promising more than the contract requires, which can create extra work and cost after award.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the federal-proposal-skills plugin — 22 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review “we will,” “we shall,” “we guarantee,” and similar language, link promises to requirements, and identify costly overcommitments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/danielkinneyspears/federal-proposal-skills/auditing-commitments
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 danielkinneyspears/federal-proposal-skills --skill auditing-commitments
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielkinneyspears/federal-proposal-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install federal-proposal-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills.

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Per session 118 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,132 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 $0.00118 $0.02132
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.01066
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00426
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00213

Measured 8d ago against content hash a44bdba6cbcb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

auditing-commitments 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/scan_commitments.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/auditing-commitments/SKILL.md · 181 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 181 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Auditing Commitments

A proposal is a binding offer. Every "we will", "we shall", "we guarantee" and "we ensure" is a candidate obligation, and if it survives into the contract the offeror performs it at its own cost for the life of the award — sometimes with the proposal incorporated wholesale by reference. Overcommitting is not a writing problem, it is a margin problem that surfaces in month three of performance.

This skill inventories every promise in a draft, maps each one to the requirement that justifies it, and prices the difference where the promise is stronger than the requirement.

When to use this skill

Use this skill after drafting and before the Red Team, on any volume that makes performance commitments. Run it again on any section rewritten during review recovery.

Run it always on AI-generated or AI-assisted draft content. Generated proposal prose overcommits substantially more than human prose, and it does so in one direction: fluent future-tense verbs read as confidence, so a model optimising for confident prose accumulates obligations. The draft sounds strong and the delta is invisible until award.

Distinguish it from adjacent skills:

  • checking-submission-compliance asks whether the proposal will be accepted. This skill asks what the proposal obligates you to do.
  • reviewing-color-teams asks whether the proposal is persuasive and scoreable. This skill is indifferent to persuasion; a beautifully written unbounded guarantee is exactly what it exists to catch.
  • shredding-solicitations establishes what was required. This skill depends on that output and does not re-derive it.

Inputs

Required:

  • The draft under audit — one volume, one section, or the full package.
  • 10-compliance-matrix.md, for the authoritative list of requirements.

Preferred upstream artifacts:

  • 08-solution-design.md: to test whether each promise is actually staffed and funded as written.
  • 16-cost-narrative.md: to test cost-technical consistency on any promise with a price consequence.
  • 05-win-strategy.md: to distinguish a deliberate, funded differentiator from an accident.

Read the full file on GitHub · 181 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 8d ago First seen · 181 lines · 118 tokens per session scan A a44bdba6cbcb

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auditing-commitments is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielkinneyspears/federal-proposal-skills (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 118 tokens to every session and 2,132 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.

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