bible

bible is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from emilvaintrub/ShowRunner. It costs 99 tokens per session (664 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only process for producing a combined document of a repository's architecture and actual capabilities, called the Bible.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps initialize and synchronize the document from source code, design specifications, shipping reports, and security artifacts, then prepare it for an approved merge.
Why use it?
It separates features that are really implemented from features only promised by specifications or reports, while tying claims to evidence.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the showrunner plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps initialize and synchronize the document from source code, design specifications, shipping reports, and security artifacts, then prepare it for an approved merge.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/emilvaintrub/showrunner/bible
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 emilvaintrub/ShowRunner --skill bible
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/emilvaintrub/ShowRunner

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install showrunner, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 664 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 $0.00099 $0.00664
Opus 5.5 $0.00040 $0.00266
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00133
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00066

Measured today against content hash 7c53564d5569, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bible 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 today.

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.

showrunner/bible/SKILL.md · 57 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 57 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bible

Reconcile intent against reality and render one combined architecture and capabilities document. The Bible writes nothing new about the product: every claim traces to a repository path, interface, or named report.

Load

  1. Read ../core/lifecycle.md and ../core/method.md.
  2. Read the active project's .claude/showrunner/config.md and the state ledger it names in lifecycle.state_file (default .claude/showrunner/state.md).
  3. Read method.md.
  4. Load ../core/merge.md for merge.
  5. Load templates/bible.md for sync.
  6. Load templates/merge.md for merge readiness.

Route

Bible runs inside the lifecycle close stage for every initiative, after release records released or held (method section 2, CLOSE). sync may also run read-only at any time for inspection.

  • init: infer Bible source bindings (Forge spec, Arc ship reports, Sentry sweep, security, and pen-test outputs, and repository-structure hints for component, data-model, and interface extraction) and fill the Bible config section.
  • sync: at an exact commit, extract components, the data model, and interfaces from the repository; reconcile against the Forge spec, Arc ship reports, and Sentry artifacts; apply the evidence rule and the intent-not-shipped drift gate; batch human-owned framing and ambiguous-evidence questions; then render templates/bible.md to bible.output.path.
  • merge: after a clean sync, required smoke, and explicit approval, reuse the shared two-commit ceremony.

Hard Stops

  • Never edit product code, configuration, schema, or risk memory.
  • Never assert an architectural claim or a capability without a citing repository path, interface, or named report.
  • Never list a spec-promised capability the repository does not implement as shipped; record it under Intent-Not-Shipped instead.
  • Never render from a dirty worktree or a tip that does not match the exact commit being documented.
  • Never restate Sentry's full threat model; Part II's security section is a summary with a pointer to the authoritative security document.
  • Never choose audience framing, what counts as a "capability," or resolve ambiguous evidence on the human's behalf.
  • Never merge without explicit human approval and the shared ceremony.
  • Never import facts or wording from another project.

Read the full file on GitHub · 57 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. today Changed · +1 lines 7c53564d5569
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +5 lines 2be26d7e6941
  3. 2mo ago First seen · 51 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A dd630cbd90bb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bible is a skill published in the GitHub repository emilvaintrub/ShowRunner (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 664 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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