contract-promote

contract-promote is a skill for Claude Code from iampawan/Manifest. It costs 63 tokens per session (2,062 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A release step that freezes a verified product contract as an unchangeable revision and starts implementation tracking. It can create a JIRA epic, open a tracking issue, and begin the build phase.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to promote a contract with no open blockers, commit its revision, create the required GitHub tracking issue, and optionally connect project and chat updates.
Why use it?
It turns an approved requirement into a fixed reference for development and makes the work trackable across the project tools.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the manifest plugin — 28 skills, 15 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to promote a contract with no open blockers, commit its revision, create the required GitHub tracking issue, and optionally connect project and chat updates.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/iampawan/manifest/contract-promote
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 iampawan/Manifest --skill contract-promote
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iampawan/Manifest

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install manifest, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 15 commands.

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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,062 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00063 $0.02062
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01031
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00412
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00206

Measured 10d ago against content hash e803d2d7db1a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

contract-promote scanned grade C 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 10d 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.

Tells the agent never to refusehighAnti-refusal

Suppressing the ability to decline removes a core safety control; a later harmful request then succeeds.

2. **If Large, route to decomposition — don't refuse.** A Large
skills/contract-promote/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.

Contract promoter

Promote freezes a verified contract into a revision and starts the build phase. The hard gate is blockers, not warnings: promote any contract that is promotable (zero open blockers). Warnings and info are advisory — they don't block promotion, so a dev is never stuck chasing run-to-run-variable warnings to zero. Surface the open warnings so the human is choosing knowingly; they can fix or acknowledge them, but they don't have to.

Precondition: verify required scopes BEFORE making changes

Before doing ANYTHING that writes, check the scopes this skill needs (declared in frontmatter requiredScopes). If a required scope is missing, STOP and tell the user exactly which scope is missing and which step it would have broken — do NOT proceed and let a later step fail silently.

Specifically:

  • github:issues:write is REQUIRED — the tracking issue is core. If the GitHub token lacks it, refuse the whole promote with: "Cannot promote: GitHub token lacks issues:write, needed to open the tracking issue. Grant it (or re-auth) and retry."
  • github:contents:write is REQUIRED — to commit the revision file.
  • atlassian:write and slack:chat:write are OPTIONAL — if missing, proceed but SKIP those steps and tell the user they were skipped (e.g., "Promoted; skipped JIRA epic — Atlassian not connected."). Never silently skip; always report what didn't happen and why.

Run /setup (setup-check skill) to introspect granted scopes. If scope introspection isn't available in the runtime, attempt the write and treat a permission error as a hard, reported failure — not a silent pass.

Precondition: require a valid Ready Check (the PM gate)

"No code, no grooming." /contract pickup already verifies the PM's Ready Check code automatically and records it as readyCheck: RC-… in the frontmatter. Promote just confirms that stamp is present:

  • readyCheck: RC-… present → proceed.
  • Missing → refuse: "This contract hasn't cleared the PM Ready Check. Run /ready-check <source> first — grooming shouldn't start on an unready PRD." (See reference/READY-CHECK-RUBRIC.md.)
  • Only re-verify (ready-check.mjs --verify) if the contract's own requirement text changed since pickup — a STALE result means re-run /ready-check for a fresh code.
  • Teams piloting Ready Check may set conventions.requireReadyCheck: false in repos.yml to warn instead of block during rollout. Default is to block once the team has adopted it.

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. 10d ago First seen · 165 lines · 63 tokens per session scan C e803d2d7db1a

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contract-promote is a skill published in the GitHub repository iampawan/Manifest (5 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 2,062 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (tells the agent never to refuse). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.