Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add FlyFission/nuclear-grade-context-engineering --skill choosing-what-to-controlgit 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/choosing-what-to-control)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/flyfission/nuclear-grade-context-engineering/choosing-what-to-control"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/flyfission/nuclear-grade-context-engineering/choosing-what-to-control/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
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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 | $0.00066 | $0.01083 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00033 | $0.00541 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00013 | $0.00217 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00108 |
Grade A, and why
choosing-what-to-control 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 10d 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 — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Choosing What to Control
Overview
Controlled items are the parts of a system whose approved version matters. They matter to trust, to review, to being able to repeat a result, to what an agent may do, or to a release. This skill keeps the approved version of those items under control. Engineers call that keeping the approved version under control, or configuration management (CM).
Decision contract
- Claim checked: every item whose approved state affects trust, agent power, the release, repeatability, or public understanding is named -- with owner, current and intended state, an evidence link or stated gap, and a re-check trigger -- and nothing in scope is silently left uncontrolled.
- Artifact observed: the request/diff/record and
controlled-items.md(plus anyrisk.md,basis.md,plan.md) -> the controlled-item list with owners, states, triggers, and named gaps. - Decision affected: warn -- which code, prompts, models, dependencies, docs, and releases become controlled items (feeds
change-impact.mdand the baseline). - Failure class: uncontrolled-item (drift in an unlisted prompt, doc, or agent-power state left untracked).
- Next action: name the item, owner, and re-check trigger; escalate when drift could hit users, security, releases, or agent power.
When to Use
- A change touches prompts, models, tools, dependencies, public docs, checkers, templates, skills, commands, release files, or runbooks.
- A reviewer needs to know which state is approved and which kind of drift would matter.
- Agent power or wording about where ideas came from changes.
- Work could hit the wrong target, so the exact item needs to be named before anyone acts.
When Not to Use
- The change is local, easy to undo, and holds no state that carries trust.
- The item is already listed in a fresh
controlled-items.mdand the scope has not changed.
Inputs
- The user request, issue, pull request, diff, or change record.
docs/02-operating-system/controlled-items.md.- Any existing
risk.md,basis.md, andplan.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.
- 10d ago First seen · 90 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 6d9f6a1eb64b
choosing-what-to-control is a skill published in the GitHub repository FlyFission/nuclear-grade-context-engineering (33 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 1,083 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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