ras-commander: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/dev_human-in-loop/SKILL.md

dev_human-in-loop is a skill for Claude Code from gpt-cmdr/ras-commander. It costs 87 tokens per session (1,216 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of checkpoints that pauses an automated coding agent when a decision needs a person's professional judgment or explicit approval. It covers risky changes such as public interfaces, engineering software runs, agent infrastructure, and release operations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before changing public APIs, compatibility behavior, data schemas, HEC-RAS execution, agent infrastructure, or git and release workflows.
Why use it?
It prevents the agent from making high-impact decisions by inference alone. The work stops at the relevant gate until someone chooses how to proceed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Codex.

This is gpt-cmdr/ras-commander's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on ras-commander itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything ras-commander configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to gpt-cmdr/ras-commander. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gpt-cmdr/ras-commander/main/.claude/skills/dev_human-in-loop/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gpt-cmdr/ras-commander

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,216 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 $0.00087 $0.01216
Opus 5.5 $0.00035 $0.00486
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00243
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00122

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 343f7298261e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dev_human-in-loop 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.

.claude/skills/dev_human-in-loop/SKILL.md · 165 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 165 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Human-in-the-Loop Decision Gates

Purpose

Use this skill when agent work reaches a decision point that should not be resolved by inference alone. Stop before irreversible work, professional engineering judgment, or shared workflow changes happen without a clear human decision.

Core Rule

When a hard gate is reached:

  1. Stop before taking the gated action.
  2. Summarize the decision needed and known facts.
  3. Provide the smallest useful option set.
  4. Wait for an explicit answer, or use the configured issue-control process.
  5. Record the decision and continue only within the approved scope.

Do not work around the gate by choosing a lower-level command, alternate tool, or indirect path that has the same effect as the gated action.

Hard Gates

Public API And Compatibility

Pause before changing interfaces or behavior that downstream users may depend on, including:

  • Function signatures, return types, column names, or DataFrame schemas.
  • Module paths, imports, public class names, or exported constants.
  • Defaults, deprecations, removals, compatibility shims, or documented public contracts.

Ask for the intended compatibility posture: preserve, deprecate with a shim, or intentionally break with migration notes.

HEC-RAS Execution And Model Mutation

Pause before actions that run, preprocess, mutate, or overwrite HEC-RAS models when the request did not already authorize that exact operation, including:

  • Computing plans or preprocessing geometry.
  • Writing to original project folders instead of a destination folder.
  • Reusing, deleting, or overwriting DSS, HDF, terrain, plan, geometry, or result files.
  • Launching GUI automation that may trigger prompts, licensing, or long runs.
  • Treating a failed or partially complete HEC-RAS run as acceptable evidence.

The decision packet must name the project, plan, executable path if relevant, destination folder, expected outputs, and how results will be verified.

Engineering Assumptions

Pause when the next step depends on a domain assumption that materially affects a hydraulic or hydrologic conclusion, including:

Read the full file on GitHub · 165 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 · 165 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A 343f7298261e

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dev_human-in-loop is a skill published in the GitHub repository gpt-cmdr/ras-commander (88 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 1,216 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 2026-08-30.

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