using-nuclear-grade

using-nuclear-grade is a skill for Claude Code from FlyFission/nuclear-grade-context-engineering. It costs 79 tokens per session (1,828 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A routing process for AI-assisted changes that chooses a level of review based on the change's consequences. It records the reason, plan, evidence, and release decision before work begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of a repository change, adoption effort, or release decision. It helps create a change record, keep work tied to one goal, and verify the claims that matter.
Why use it?
It prevents low-risk experiments and high-consequence changes from being handled with the same amount of checking. It highlights changes involving authentication, user-visible behavior, data, dependencies, automation, continuous integration, or releases.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the nuclear-grade plugin — 29 skills, 28 commands, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it at the start of a repository change, adoption effort, or release decision. It helps create a change record, keep work tied to one goal, and verify the claims that matter.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/flyfission/nuclear-grade-context-engineering/using-nuclear-grade
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 using-nuclear-grade
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 29 skills, 28 commands, 5 agents.

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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,828 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 $0.00079 $0.01828
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00914
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00366
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00183

Measured yesterday against content hash 13bfe5937607, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

using-nuclear-grade 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 yesterday.

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/using-nuclear-grade/SKILL.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Using Nuclear-grade

Overview

This is the always-first router for Nuclear-grade work. Before you act, classify the change by consequence and route to the matching rigor — move fast while ideas are throwaway, slow down the moment the work becomes a promise. Start by asking the real question the change must answer, then state the mode it earns and the one fact that sets it. Build the smallest change record that does the job, prove the claims that matter, and say the release decision out loud.

The repo charter (.nuclear/charter.md) holds the lasting rules every change follows. Each change also gets a goal anchor — what that one change is for — so the work does not drift off course.

Decision contract

  • Claim checked: this change is named the cheapest-fitting mode -- the administrative floor, Quick, or Standard-plus -- with the one fact that sets it stated before the first tool call, and any Standard-plus trap (auth, user-visible, data, dependency, model/prompt/agent power, CI, release) forces the stronger mode.
  • Artifact observed: the request, diff, and any record under .nuclear/changes/ -> the declared mode, its one-fact reason, and the change-record path that routes the work into its skill cluster.
  • Decision affected: block -- the mode declared before the first tool call (the administrative floor, Quick, or Standard-plus) and the skill cluster it routes into.
  • Failure class: unclassified-or-downgraded-start (work begun before a mode, or a Standard-plus trap waved off as Quick).
  • Next action: state the mode before the first tool call; raise to Standard or human review when a trap or outside-trust claim appears.

When to Use

  • A person or an AI agent will change code, tests, docs, prompts, tools, dependencies, or release evidence.
  • A reviewer needs more than a commit message and a test result to judge the risk.
  • Agent power, dependency trust, security, or release readiness is on the line.
  • A team needs to follow the workflow: take the chosen path, or write down why it no longer fits.

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 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. yesterday First seen · 109 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 13bfe5937607

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using-nuclear-grade is a skill published in the GitHub repository FlyFission/nuclear-grade-context-engineering (33 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 1,828 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 2026-09-06.