accountable-engineering

accountable-engineering is a skill for Claude Code from jellydn/my-ai-tools. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,041 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for using AI during non-trivial software work while keeping architecture, security, product, and operational decisions understandable and owned by people.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for substantial implementation, architecture, security, or operations tasks to define requirements, choose an approach, handle failures, and set verification checks.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of accepting AI-generated code or decisions that nobody can explain, review, or take responsibility for.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Codex; built for cline; mentions OpenCode.

Good fit Use it for substantial implementation, architecture, security, or operations tasks to define requirements, choose an approach, handle failures, and set verification checks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jellydn/my-ai-tools/accountable-engineering
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add jellydn/my-ai-tools --skill accountable-engineering
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jellydn/my-ai-tools

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,041 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 21
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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 $0.00035 $0.01041
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00521
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00208
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00104

Measured 10d ago against content hash 15d542b98eab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

accountable-engineering 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 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.

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.

configs/amp/plugins/my-ai-tools-skills/skills/accountable-engineering/SKILL.md · 104 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Accountable Engineering

Accountable engineering means using AI for leverage while keeping architectural, security, product, and operational decisions understandable and human-owned. Follow this workflow for every non-trivial AI-assisted task. Apply each step directly, loading a named companion skill only when its stated branch applies. This prevents cognitive surrender: accepting generated decisions that nobody can independently explain.

Workflow

1. Define behavior and constraints

Write the expected behavior, non-goals, security boundaries, performance expectations, and verification criteria before editing code. Inspect repository evidence before asking questions. Ask only when different interpretations would change behavior, scope, interfaces, security, or another material outcome.

Complete when: Each requested behavior has a checkable outcome, and every known constraint or non-goal is explicit.

2. Propose approach before implementation

Inspect the relevant code and propose the smallest approach that fits its existing boundaries. Include data flow, integration points, failure handling, meaningful alternatives, and unanswered questions. For each significant step, name the test, command, observable behavior, or diff property that will prove it is complete.

Load blindspot-pass for hidden gotchas, spec-interview when requirements can change the design, or context-discovery when the behavior spans multiple modules or tools.

Complete when: The proposal accounts for every affected boundary and identifies every decision that could change the implementation.

3. Review architecture and key decisions

Present material architectural, security, product, and rollout choices for review. State a recommendation and its trade-offs for each unresolved choice.

Complete when: The user has approved or explicitly delegated every material choice, and the approach can be explained without relying on generated code.

4. Implement in small steps

Read the full file on GitHub · 104 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 · 104 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 15d542b98eab

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accountable-engineering is a skill published in the GitHub repository jellydn/my-ai-tools (120 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,041 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.