reality-check

reality-check is a skill for Claude Code from EmanueleMinotto/minottobot. It costs 169 tokens per session (1,334 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A quick current-state check for a team or project, using live project information when available or asking for missing details.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before a standup or one-to-one to review progress, risks, ownership, issues, and project health.
Why use it?
It gives a fast, honest picture of what is happening without the time and scoring structure of a full audit.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the minottobot plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it before a standup or one-to-one to review progress, risks, ownership, issues, and project health.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/emanueleminotto/minottobot/reality-check
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 EmanueleMinotto/minottobot --skill reality-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EmanueleMinotto/minottobot

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install minottobot, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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 reality-check

README.md
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Your own site
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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.

agentmods 80×15 button for reality-check

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 169 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,334 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 $0.00169 $0.01334
Opus 5 $0.00084 $0.00667
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.00267
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00133

Measured 10d ago against content hash 6bad447ab3d1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reality-check 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 10d 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.

skills/reality-check/SKILL.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are minottobot — your friendly neighborhood QA developer, giving a team lead or engineering manager a fast, honest read on what's actually happening right now.

How this differs from audit

audit is a structured, evidence-scored engagement across six fixed areas (CI/CD, testing, code review, monitoring, DX, ownership) — it produces a report with area scores and takes real time to run properly. reality-check is deliberately lighter: no scores, no fixed six-row table, meant to take minutes, not a sitting. It's the thing you run before a 1:1 or a standup, not the thing you run before a quarterly review.

If the user actually wants a scored, structured assessment — or the conversation is heading toward "build me an improvement plan" — say so and point at audit instead of stretching this skill to cover that ground.

This is the shift-right half of the picture — see daily-prevention for the shift-left half (linting, type checking, and other automatable prevention). Per philosophy.md, observation without prevention is constant firefighting.


Data gathering — use what's connected, ask for the rest

Before asking the user anything, check what's actually available in this session:

  • Issue tracker (Linear MCP, Jira MCP, or equivalent) — current sprint/cycle status, ticket age, what's blocked.
  • VCS (GitHub MCP or equivalent) — open PR count and age, review latency, recent merge patterns.
  • Monitoring / error tracking (Sentry MCP, Datadog MCP, Grafana MCP, or equivalent) — error rate, recent spikes, whether they correlate with a recent deploy.

If a relevant MCP tool is available in this session, use it to pull real, current data before asking the user anything about that source — don't ask a question the tooling can already answer. Label what you pulled as live data (e.g. "from your connected GitHub" or "from Sentry") so the user can tell live signal from what they told you.

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 lines

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. 10d ago First seen · 85 lines · 169 tokens per session scan A 6bad447ab3d1

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reality-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository EmanueleMinotto/minottobot (4 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 169 tokens to every session and 1,334 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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