checklist

checklist is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from deciqAI/knowledge-skills. It costs 105 tokens per session (1,803 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checklist is a short written list of steps that must not be missed during a complex, repeated task. It supports memory when people are busy, tired, rushed, or working with others.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for deployments, product launches, financial closing, hiring, acquisitions, medical or operational procedures, and releasing an AI system with tests, spending limits, safeguards, and rollback steps.
Why use it?
People can forget important steps even when they are experienced, especially under pressure. Writing the steps down makes critical work more consistent without relying on memory alone.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/deciqai/knowledge-skills/checklist
Any agent
npx skills add deciqAI/knowledge-skills --skill checklist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/deciqAI/knowledge-skills

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 checklist

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/deciqai/knowledge-skills/checklist.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/deciqai/knowledge-skills/checklist)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/deciqai/knowledge-skills/checklist"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/deciqai/knowledge-skills/checklist.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 105 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,803 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00105 $0.01803
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00901
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00361
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00180

Measured 5d ago against content hash 2ef8ac8d860f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

checklist 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 5d 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.

checklist/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Checklist

Overview

A checklist is a short written list of must-not-skip steps for a complex repeated operation. It externalizes working memory — which fails under load, ego, time pressure, and fatigue — so attention stays on the situation rather than step recall. Boeing 1935 → Pronovost ICU 2001 → WHO Surgical 2008: each produced 36-47% reductions in major adverse events at near-zero cost.

Composes with metacognition, confirmation-bias, cognitive-load-theory, premortem, inversion.

When to Use

  • High-stakes repeated operations (deployments, launches, M&A close, hiring decisions, financial close)
  • Multiple steps where skipping one costs far more than running the checklist
  • Multi-person operations where coordination must be consistent
  • New team members joining a critical workflow
  • Shipping or updating an AI agent / model version in production — evals, guardrails, spend caps, rollback: known steps that skilled teams skip under deadline

Not when: operation is simple/one-off; no recurring pattern exists; checklist culture creates false confidence (mechanical checking without thought).

Coaching Novices (Adaptive Front Door)

  • Engine mode: user has a specific operation → run The Process directly.
  • Coach mode: user is new to the framework → guide step by step.

In Coach mode, respond one step at a time. Each [WAIT] is a hard stop — output only that step's question, then stop.

  1. One-line: for any complex repeated operation, a 6-10 item checklist outperforms expert memory under load — it externalizes the steps that fail systematically.
  2. Check fit: repeated + high-stakes + consequential errors = checklist candidate. Simple or one-off = skip.
  3. Elicit their real case: what operation, where does it fail, what near-misses have occurred?

[WAIT — do not advance until user responds]

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 5d ago First seen · 125 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A 2ef8ac8d860f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

checklist is a skill published in the GitHub repository deciqAI/knowledge-skills (10 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 1,803 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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