ai-conductor: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/scope-check/SKILL.md

scope-check is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jstoup111/ai-conductor. It costs 92 tokens per session (5,025 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A decision guide for changes to the ai-conductor harness repository and for creating skills. It determines whether work belongs only in the harness or also in repositories that install it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before changing the harness, creating a skill, or deciding where a skill should live. It helps classify repository scope and choose between shipped and local skill catalogues.
Why use it?
It prevents changes from being placed in the wrong catalogue or repository. This avoids costly rework when the harness serves both itself and other repositories.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

This is jstoup111/ai-conductor's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on ai-conductor 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 ai-conductor configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to jstoup111/ai-conductor. 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/jstoup111/ai-conductor/main/.agents/skills/scope-check/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jstoup111/ai-conductor

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,025 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: 2 findings, 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 Agent Snooping · line 182
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 192
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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 $0.00092 $0.05025
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.02513
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.01005
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00502

Measured 8d ago against content hash 6768d4f03117, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scope-check 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 8d 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.

.agents/skills/scope-check/SKILL.md · 343 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 343 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scope Check

Three scope questions recur on every change to this repository, and each has a cheap wrong answer that is expensive to unwind. Run the decision procedures below before authoring, not after.

This repository is the harness. It authors skills, agents, an engine (src/conductor), and behavioral rules that get installed into other repositories — "consumer repositories" — which then use the harness to build their own software. It also builds itself with itself (self-host). Those two audiences share a checkout, which is exactly why scope errors are easy to make here and nowhere else.

Answer A, then B, then C. B is only reached when the change adds a skill. C applies to every change.


1. Decision A — harness-repo-only, or consumer-facing?

Question: does this change serve this repository's own construction, or every repository that installs the harness?

Procedure

Walk the signals in order. The first HALT wins; a signal that does not fire is not evidence for the other side.

Step 1 — repo-only signals. Answer YES to any of these and the change is harness-repo-only:

  1. It touches self-host, daemon, or sandbox machinery — anything under src/conductor/src/engine/self-host/, the live-boundary fingerprint, the isolated provider home, or a code path gated behind isSelfBuild(). That gate is the canonical shape of a repo-only feature: it is daemon && selfHost, so every other repository's bytes are unchanged.
  2. It touches this repository's own validation or release gates — test/test_harness_integrity.sh, test/lint_shell.sh, test/test_provider_skill_contracts.sh, bin/generate-model-table, the release-gate classifier, .docs/release-waivers/.
  3. It touches this repository's own CI (.github/workflows/) or its .ai-conductor/config.yml custom steps.
  4. It depends on a convention only this repository has — its .docs/ layout, its [Unreleased] changelog gate, its VERSION file, its shipped-record ledger, its own branch policy.

Read the full file on GitHub · 343 lines

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. 8d ago First seen · 343 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A 6768d4f03117

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scope-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository jstoup111/ai-conductor (7 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 5,025 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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