acceptance-criteria-author

acceptance-criteria-author is a skill for Claude Code from evolplus/talos. It costs 39 tokens per session (201 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A retired writing guide for acceptance criteria, the conditions used to decide whether a software requirement is complete. It points users to a newer user-story-writing guide instead.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for compatibility with existing references; new work should use the renamed user-story-author guide.
Why use it?
It prevents old references from leading to a missing file or an outdated process.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Part of the talos plugin — 62 skills, 2 commands, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit It is for compatibility with existing references; new work should use the renamed user-story-author guide.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/evolplus/talos/acceptance-criteria-author
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 evolplus/talos --skill acceptance-criteria-author
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/evolplus/talos

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install talos, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 62 skills, 2 commands, 4 hooks.

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 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 201 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 $0.00039 $0.00201
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00101
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00040
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00020

Measured 9d ago against content hash c284202d310c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

acceptance-criteria-author 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 9d 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/acceptance-criteria-author/SKILL.md · 17 lines

What it actually says

Acceptance Criteria Author — DEPRECATED

This skill has been renamed to user-story-author following the kit's adoption of the DDD-based SRS template (User Stories at SRS §3.2, FRS detail at docs/frs/<FR-ID>.md). The new template has no free-standing "acceptance criteria"; testable contracts live inside each User Story's Business Rules (Invariants) and Post-conditions.

See ../user-story-author/SKILL.md for the active skill.

This directory is kept as a stub so existing cross-references resolve without 404. Do not extend.

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 9d ago First seen · 17 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A c284202d310c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

acceptance-criteria-author is a skill published in the GitHub repository evolplus/talos (8 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 201 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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