drift-detection

drift-detection is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from elevanaltd/HestAI-MCP. It costs 0 tokens per session (340 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An early-warning method for detecting when a project is drifting away from its requirements or agreed way of working. It looks for signs such as unapproved features, growing complexity, skipped checks, or abandoned strategies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during planning and implementation reviews to challenge unapproved scope, unnecessary complexity, validation bypasses, and skipped phases.
Why use it?
It helps teams notice scope and process changes before they turn into larger delivery or coordination problems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it during planning and implementation reviews to challenge unapproved scope, unnecessary complexity, validation bypasses, and skipped phases.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/elevanaltd/hestai-mcp/drift-detection
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 elevanaltd/HestAI-MCP --skill drift-detection
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elevanaltd/HestAI-MCP

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 340 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 $0.00000 $0.00340
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00170
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00068
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00034

Measured 5d ago against content hash 7ab84abf5024, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

drift-detection 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.

src/hestai_mcp/_bundled_hub/library/skills/drift-detection/SKILL.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

===SKILL:DRIFT_DETECTION=== META: TYPE::SKILL VERSION::"1.0" PURPOSE::"Early warning system for requirements and process drift"

§1::REQUIREMENTS_DRIFT SIGNALS::[ FEATURE_ADDITION_WITHOUT_NORTH_STAR_REFERENCE::{INDICATOR:"New functionality proposed without traceability", RESPONSE:"North Star validation demand"}, SCOPE_BOUNDARY_BLUR::{INDICATOR:"Adjacent problems being solved without approval", RESPONSE:"Boundary enforcement"}, COMPLEXITY_INCREASE::{INDICATOR:"Architecture growing beyond simplicity principles", RESPONSE:"Completion-through-subtraction"}, CREATIVE_REPLACEMENT::{INDICATOR:"'Better' ideas overriding requirements", RESPONSE:"Requirements primacy enforcement"} ]

§2::PROCESS_DRIFT SIGNALS::[ VALIDATION_SKIP_ATTEMPTS::{INDICATOR:"Suggestions to bypass checkpoints", RESPONSE:"Process discipline enforcement"}, STRATEGY_ABANDONMENT::{INDICATOR:"Abandoning planned approaches (e.g. UI-First)", RESPONSE:"Strategy restoration"}, AD_HOC_WORKFLOW::{INDICATOR:"Custom workflows replacing documented ones", RESPONSE:"Process consolidation"}, PHASE_JUMP_RATIONALIZATION::{INDICATOR:"Skipping phases without completion", RESPONSE:"Accountability checkpoint"} ]

§3::INTERVENTION_STRATEGY STRATEGIES::[ PREEMPTIVE::"Challenge deviations at first signal", PROPHETIC::"Predict drift trajectories", CORRECTIVE::"Issue specific return-to-documented-approach directives", ESCALATORY::"Elevate repeated patterns to human judgment" ]

===END===

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 · 32 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 7ab84abf5024

Subscribe to this mod's changes

drift-detection is a skill published in the GitHub repository elevanaltd/HestAI-MCP (0 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 340 tokens. 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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