Z.A.E.B.A.L.: profanity-triggered self-audit for agents

Z.A.E.B.A.L.: profanity-triggered self-audit for agents is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from howdeploy/deploychan_mcp. It costs 71 tokens per session (1,595 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A self-audit system for coding agents that treats profanity or direct complaints as signs that the agent should stop and recheck its assumptions.

In plain words
What is it for?
It audits frustrated sessions, tries to disprove the agent's assumptions, escalates repeated failures to an external auditor, and installs hooks for four agent hosts.
Why use it?
It addresses repeated mistakes caused by an incorrect belief about the task or codebase, including cases where an agent assumes a written change took effect.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/howdeploy/deploychan_mcp/zaebal
Any agent
npx skills add howdeploy/deploychan_mcp --skill zaebal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/howdeploy/deploychan_mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,595 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00071 $0.01595
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00797
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00319
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00160

Measured 4d ago against content hash ecd855de3ae7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Z.A.E.B.A.L.: profanity-triggered self-audit for agents scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 4d 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.

Reads agent configuration directorieslowAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

| Claude Code | `UserPromptSubmit` in `~/.claude/settings.json` | `claude -p`, read-only tools |

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

content/skills/zaebal/SKILL.md · 116 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 116 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Z.A.E.B.A.L. — profanity-triggered self-audit

Zaebal? Audit. Errors. Break. Analyze. Leave no assumption.

When a coding agent gets stuck, it repeats the same action with small variations — because one underlying belief about the task or the codebase is wrong, and the agent treats that belief as fact. Another self-check just reproduces the mistake. Z.A.E.B.A.L. plugs a feedback loop into the user-message boundary: profanity and direct complaints become an audit signal, repeated signals escalate, and at the top level an external auditor (the same or a cross-vendor CLI) reads the transcript and repository evidence from outside. Public: howdeploy/Z.A.E.B.A.L, MIT, Python standard library only.

Why it works

The named failure patterns (collected from real session postmortems):

  • The wrong belief is invisible to the agent. It doesn't loop from inattention — it has sincerely stopped understanding the problem. The protocol's goal is not "find the mismatch" but find and disprove the wrong belief.
  • "Written ≠ took effect". A classic: the agent wrote a config/hook/instruction file and assumes it works because the file exists — while the harness reads it from a different path. Verify the act of consumption, not the act of writing.
  • Sycophancy vs hallucinated correctness. Agreeing under pressure and abandoning a working solution — or defending broken code with invented facts. The cure for both: execution over intuition. Defending code with verbal arguments is forbidden — only a micro-test, a run, logs. This kills ~90% of "lying" cases.
  • First plausible hypothesis. A lone agent fixates on the first version. That's why auditors get raw artifacts, not the agent's interpretation — and why there are two of them: independent versions disprove each other's dead ends.

The escalation ladder

Detection covers Russian, English and Chinese profanity (including leetspeak), classifies intent (praise with profanity like "fucking great, it works" closes an incident instead of opening one), and tracks a per-session streak in a 30-minute window:

Read the full file on GitHub · 116 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. 4d ago First seen · 116 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A ecd855de3ae7

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Z.A.E.B.A.L.: profanity-triggered self-audit for agents is a skill published in the GitHub repository howdeploy/deploychan_mcp (11 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 1,595 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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