template-sia

template-sia is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from docxology/template. It costs 35 tokens per session (494 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A self-improvement agent template built around repeated Meta, Target, and Feedback loops. It supports separate public and private data, fixture replay, and validation that stops safely when checks fail.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build or test an agent-improvement loop, replay test fixtures, separate data visibility, and validate each iteration.
Why use it?
It gives experiments that improve an agent a repeatable structure and prevents invalid or unsafe results from being accepted silently.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions AGENTS.md.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is uv run python scripts/pipeline/stage_02_analysis.py --project templates/template_sia.

Good fit Use it to build or test an agent-improvement loop, replay test fixtures, separate data visibility, and validate each iteration.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/docxology/template
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/docxology/template/template-sia

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 494 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 $0.00035 $0.00494
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00247
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00099
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00049

Measured 4d ago against content hash 4eb0fdc983d6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

template-sia 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 4d 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.

projects/templates/template_sia/.agents/skills/template-sia/SKILL.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

template-sia

Project-scoped skill for the in-repo exemplar at projects/templates/template_sia/. Load this when working inside the project.

When to Use

  • Working inside the template_sia exemplar — running scripts, editing source, or regenerating outputs.
  • Forking this exemplar as the starting scaffold for a new research project.
  • Validating that the exemplar's contracts (thin-orchestrator, layer boundaries, no-mocks testing) still hold after changes.

Quick Reference

# From the repository root
uv run pytest projects/templates/template_sia/tests --cov=projects/templates/template_sia/src --cov-fail-under=90
uv run python scripts/pipeline/stage_02_analysis.py --project templates/template_sia
uv run python scripts/pipeline/stage_03_render.py --project templates/template_sia
uv run python scripts/pipeline/stage_04_validate.py --project templates/template_sia
uv run python scripts/pipeline/stage_05_copy.py --project templates/template_sia

Pitfalls

  • Keep scripts thin. Business logic belongs in src/ or shared infrastructure/, not in scripts/. src/loop.py owns the project adapter; scripts/run_sia_loop.py only parses flags and presents result paths.
  • No mocks. All tests must use real data, real files, and real computation.
  • Outputs are disposable. Never hand-edit output/ — regenerate from source and config.
  • Run from the repo root. Commands assume the template monorepo root as working directory unless the child AGENTS.md states otherwise.

Cross-refs

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. 4d ago First seen · 52 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 4eb0fdc983d6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

template-sia is a skill published in the GitHub repository docxology/template (19 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 494 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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