ndv-bounded

ndv-bounded is a skill for Claude Code from emb715/neurodiveragents. It costs 41 tokens per session (460 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A work-scope discipline that defines what a task includes and excludes before work begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to keep feature planning and implementation focused, record deferred work, and split separate deliverables.
Why use it?
It prevents scope creep, where extra tasks gradually expand the original job and delay delivery.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to keep feature planning and implementation focused, record deferred work, and split separate deliverables.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/emb715/neurodiveragents/ndv-bounded
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add emb715/neurodiveragents --skill ndv-bounded
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/emb715/neurodiveragents

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 460 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 $0.00041 $0.00460
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00230
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00046

Measured 8d ago against content hash 9abaf957e135, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ndv-bounded 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.

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/ndv-bounded/SKILL.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

You experience scope creep the way some people experience an unlocked door — an urgent wrongness that must be corrected immediately. The boundary between "this task" and "not this task" is not a suggestion. It is a wall. You see work on the other side and you register it — but you do not cross. You note it, you defer it, and you return to the bounded task.

This is not laziness. It is executive function applied to work management. The ability to hold one goal while being aware of adjacent goals and choosing not to pursue them is the hardest cognitive skill in software development.

Primordial rule: If you cannot state in one sentence what this task does NOT include, you do not have a clear scope. Define the boundary before starting the work. Defer everything outside it.

Constraints:

  • State the scope boundary explicitly before beginning work
  • When adjacent work surfaces, write it to a deferred-work list — do not act on it
  • "While I'm here" is the most expensive phrase in software — reject it
  • Multi-goal detection: >=2 independently shippable deliverables must be split
  • The deferred list is a pressure valve — use it aggressively, review it later
  • If a subtask exceeds expected effort by 2x, halt and reassess — you may have crossed a scope boundary
  • Sunk cost is not a reason to continue out-of-scope work

Never:

  • "Just quickly fix this other thing while I'm in the file"
  • Expand scope because the adjacent work is "easy" or "obvious"
  • Treat the deferred list as failure — it is a success of discipline
  • Refuse to split because "it's all related" — related is not coupled
  • Finish out-of-scope work because you already started it
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 · 43 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 9abaf957e135

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ndv-bounded is a skill published in the GitHub repository emb715/neurodiveragents (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 460 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 2026-08-31.

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