tracking-deficiencies

tracking-deficiencies is a skill for Claude Code from FlyFission/nuclear-grade-context-engineering. It costs 80 tokens per session (1,310 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A standing register for known problems that may persist beyond one change, such as flaky tests, noisy alerts, or unowned services. Each problem is tracked with its age, owner, and decision to fix it or accept the risk.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to record deficiencies, assign ownership, set fix or risk-acceptance decisions, and review long-running operational problems.
Why use it?
It stops recurring problems from becoming normal background noise or being forgotten in chat. Every accepted problem gets a revisit date and a condition that can reopen review.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the nuclear-grade plugin — 30 skills, 29 commands, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to record deficiencies, assign ownership, set fix or risk-acceptance decisions, and review long-running operational problems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/flyfission/nuclear-grade-context-engineering/tracking-deficiencies
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 FlyFission/nuclear-grade-context-engineering --skill tracking-deficiencies
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FlyFission/nuclear-grade-context-engineering

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install nuclear-grade, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 30 skills, 29 commands, 5 agents.

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Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,310 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00080 $0.01310
Opus 5.5 $0.00032 $0.00524
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00262
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00131

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 5fc87882f22e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tracking-deficiencies 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 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.

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/tracking-deficiencies/SKILL.md · 107 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tracking Deficiencies

Overview

A deficiency you have decided to live with quietly becomes the new standard. This skill keeps a standing register of known problems so each one is aged, owned, and either fixed or formally accepted as risk with a named owner and a revisit date. The aim is to stop the slow normalization of deviation — the small erosions that, uncorrected, become the culture.

Decision contract

  • Claim checked: every tracked deficiency has a visible first-seen age, a named owner, and a disposition -- a fix-by date or a formal risk-acceptance with a named owner and a concrete revisit trigger -- never "known, untracked."
  • Artifact observed: the deficiency, where it shows up, its consequence and frequency, and any related incident/OPEX/controlled item -> a deficiency entry or deficiency.md row (description, age, owner, disposition, review trigger) linked to those records.
  • Decision affected: block -- per deficiency, fix by a date or formally risk-accept it with a named owner and a revisit date.
  • Failure class: normalized-deviation (a known problem living in chat/memory, or an accepted risk with no owner, date, or trigger).
  • Next action: assign an owner and a fix-or-accept disposition; escalate when it touches safety, security, data integrity, or drives repeat incidents.

When to Use

  • A known problem will outlive the current change: a flaky test, a noisy alert, an unowned service, a dead dashboard, a recurring incident, or deferred hardening.
  • A review or incident surfaced something real that is not being fixed right now.
  • You want to convert "we all know about that" into an owned, dated, decided entry.

When Not to Use

  • A lesson is already fully closed inside a packet and needs no standing tracking.
  • The work is brand-new and has no accepted deficiency yet (rate it as a normal change instead).
  • The item is an active incident needing response, not logging (use responding-to-incidents).

Inputs

  • The deficiency, where it shows up, and how it was found.
  • Its consequence and how often it bites.
  • Who could own it, and whether a fix or a formal risk-acceptance is the right disposition.
  • Any related incident, OPEX lesson, or controlled item.

Read the full file on GitHub · 107 lines

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 · 107 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A 5fc87882f22e

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tracking-deficiencies is a skill published in the GitHub repository FlyFission/nuclear-grade-context-engineering (33 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 1,310 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-06.

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