Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add FlyFission/nuclear-grade-context-engineering --skill checking-what-a-change-affectsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FlyFission/nuclear-grade-context-engineeringWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/flyfission/nuclear-grade-context-engineering/checking-what-a-change-affects)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/flyfission/nuclear-grade-context-engineering/checking-what-a-change-affects"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/flyfission/nuclear-grade-context-engineering/checking-what-a-change-affects.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00072 | $0.01110 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00036 | $0.00555 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00014 | $0.00222 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00111 |
Grade A, and why
checking-what-a-change-affects 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 7d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Checking What a Change Affects
Overview
An impact screen asks a simple question. When a controlled item changes, what else does that change leave out of date? You look downstream for ripple effects before they surprise you.
Decision contract
- Claim checked: every artifact a controlled change could leave stale -- docs, tests, checkers, skills, commands, templates, prompts, releases, saved versions, and runtime blast radius (schema/state migration, API consumers, backward-compatibility, rollback-of-state) -- has one named action with evidence, and no stale surface is quietly accepted.
- Artifact observed: the controlled-item list,
risk.md,basis.md,plan.md, the diff, andchange-impact.md->change-impact.mdwith per-item actions, re-check triggers, and required follow-ups. - Decision affected: block -- per affected item, update / leave alone / defer / block; blockers carry into
ship.md. - Failure class: missed-ripple (a stale doc, test, checker, or runtime contract quietly accepted).
- Next action: assign each stale surface an action with an owner and trigger; escalate when it touches outside trust, security, or the release.
When to Use
- A change affects more than one kind of artifact.
- A change touches a running system, a schema, stored data, or an API other code depends on (brownfield or migration work).
- Public claims, where ideas came from, checkers, tests, templates, skills, commands, dependencies, prompts, or the release may need updates.
- A saved version or a re-check trigger may change.
- A near miss, a weak control, or a lesson from real operation (OPEX) hints at hidden ripple effects.
When Not to Use
- The change is clearly Quick. It affects one local item and needs one proof step.
- A current
change-impact.mdalready covers the exact scope.
Inputs
- The controlled-item list.
risk.md,basis.md,plan.md, and the diff.docs/02-operating-system/change-impact.md.
Process
- Name the kinds of artifacts the change might affect. When the change touches a running system or stored data, screen the runtime blast radius too — schema and state migration, API consumers that depend on the contract, backward-compatibility, and rollback-of-state — not just repo artifacts. See
docs/02-operating-system/change-impact.md. - For each kind, pick one action: update it, leave it alone, defer it, or block on it.
- Name the stale links, evidence, examples, claims, handoffs, or controls.
- Link evidence for each choice.
- Record the triggers to re-check.
- Carry any blockers or accepted gaps into
ship.md.
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.
- 7d ago First seen · 92 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 72c699ed1f89
checking-what-a-change-affects is a skill published in the GitHub repository FlyFission/nuclear-grade-context-engineering (33 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 1,110 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.
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