sanction: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/live-state-truth/SKILL.md

live-state-truth is a skill for Claude Code from ericlovold/sanction. It costs 78 tokens per session (788 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A verification rule for checking the live state of a system before relying on or changing a system-related fact.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before asserting or acting on details such as a function's behavior, configuration, deployment status, table contents, or dependency version.
Why use it?
It prevents decisions based only on documentation, comments, READMEs, or memory when those sources may be out of date.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is ericlovold/sanction's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on sanction itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything sanction configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ericlovold/sanction. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ericlovold/sanction/main/.claude/skills/live-state-truth/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ericlovold/sanction

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 live-state-truth

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 live-state-truth

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 788 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00078 $0.00788
Opus 5.5 $0.00031 $0.00315
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00158
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00079

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 2626659c1734, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

live-state-truth scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 1mo 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

2. **Pick the cheapest sufficient check.** If the authoritative artifact is already in front of you (the source file, the actual config), the check IS reading it - do that and answer. Reach for probes (run it, query it,
.claude/skills/live-state-truth/SKILL.md · 45 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 1mo ago First seen · 45 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 2626659c1734

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live-state-truth is a skill published in the GitHub repository ericlovold/sanction (3 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 788 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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