simba-prior-conventions

simba-prior-conventions is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from getsimba-ai/simba-mcp. It costs 33 tokens per session (246 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for changing the default assumptions, called priors, in Simba marketing mix models. Priors are starting assumptions the model uses before learning from the supplied data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when overriding assumptions about advertising carryover, saturation, marginal effects, or effect half-life in a Simba model.
Why use it?
They help set valid channel-specific assumptions and avoid rejected inputs or silently misplaced settings that could produce an unintended model.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when overriding assumptions about advertising carryover, saturation, marginal effects, or effect half-life in a Simba model.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/getsimba-ai/simba-mcp/simba-prior-conventions
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add getsimba-ai/simba-mcp --skill simba-prior-conventions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/getsimba-ai/simba-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 246 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 $0.00033 $0.00246
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00098
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00049
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00025

Measured 25d ago against content hash 6f7e11055f8a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

simba-prior-conventions 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 25d 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/simba-prior-conventions/SKILL.md · 18 lines

What it actually says

Configure prior overrides

  1. Read conventions before constructing any override.
  2. Match media priors to channels[].name and control priors to exact selected columns.
  3. Select one saturation anchor and one coefficient coordinate. For generalised-log human coordinates include the required curvature pairing.
  4. Preserve smart defaults for omitted fields. Do not claim those defaults are externally validated evidence.
  5. Check capabilities for explicit control priors and retain all requested settings. Refused or unsupported requests must not silently fall back.
  6. After creation compare resolved priors and overridden_fields to the request. Unknown fields, wrong units or inactive parameters require correction, not a claim of success.

Role availability: full/data_scientist can change priors during authorised model or recipe authoring. Narrow profiles may inspect existing evidence but stop before authoring and reconnect with full. Retain schema capability checks, exact coordinates and accepted-not-used semantics; never fit solely to repair missing prior evidence.

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. 25d ago Changed · +2 lines 6f7e11055f8a
  2. 28d ago Changed · -74 lines · -27 tokens per session eb00ff746648
  3. 1mo ago Changed · +35 lines 5c1f803b0166
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 55 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 8fe14ce40d36

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simba-prior-conventions is a skill published in the GitHub repository getsimba-ai/simba-mcp (3 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 246 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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