audit-doctrine

audit-doctrine is a skill for Claude Code from kensaurus/cursor-kenji. It costs 61 tokens per session (2,035 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only guide for judging whether custom lint rules and other coding guardrails enforce sound engineering practices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review lint rules, ratchets, and other automated checks, then report which rules should stay, change, or be removed.
Why use it?
It helps find rules that reject valid code or measure personal preference instead of preventing real problems.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter.

Part of the cursor-kenji plugin — 132 skills, 63 commands, 6 agents, 1 hook, 3 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to review lint rules, ratchets, and other automated checks, then report which rules should stay, change, or be removed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kensaurus/cursor-kenji/audit-doctrine
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 kensaurus/cursor-kenji --skill audit-doctrine
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kensaurus/cursor-kenji

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cursor-kenji, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 132 skills, 63 commands, 6 agents, 1 hook, 3 MCP servers.

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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,035 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.
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 $0.00061 $0.02035
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00814
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00407
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00203

Measured 1mo ago against content hash a73dffe1bd94, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

audit-doctrine 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.

skills/audit-doctrine/SKILL.md · 190 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 190 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

audit-doctrine — Is the rule right, not merely enforced?

Degree of freedom: MIXED.

  • Reference-practice comparison and remedy judgment (Phases 1–2): HIGH freedom — weigh each rule against how top products actually build.
  • Governance-contract checks (Phases 3–4): LOW freedom — the contract's clauses are pass/fail; check each exactly.

Read-only. audit-gate-logic asks "can this gate be bypassed or gamed?" — it assumes the rule is correct. This asks the harder question: is the rule right on the merits? A ratchet that flawlessly enforces bad doctrine is worse than no ratchet, because greenness certifies the mistake and the developer, given only a codemod list, restyles legitimate work to appease a regex instead of fixing a real problem. An unexplained lint rejection erodes trust at that decision point until people "adopt their own truth." This audit finds the rules that are measuring taste, not correctness.

Present findings. Do not rewrite detectors, baselines, or tokens here.

This skill vs neighbors

Skill Owns
audit-doctrine (this) Rule content — remedy, named token, Tier-D practice
audit-gate-logic Rule machinery — bypass, gaming, required-but-not
housekeep-gates Consolidate / delete duplicate gates (apply-now)
enhance-arch-boundaries Install boundary enforcement, not judge doctrine
housekeep-design Token/component SSOT — the sanctioned-form side
docs-adr Record a justified divergence from Tier-D
housekeep-backlog Un-remedied long-tail axes as BL- rows

The governance contract

A custom rule/axis is sound only if all hold:

  1. Has a remedy — states the sanctioned alternative by name; a rule that only says "don't" is measuring taste.
  2. Sanctioned form is reachable — the approved pattern exists as a named token/class, not folklore the developer must reverse-engineer.
  3. Teaches on failure — the failure output prints the remedy AND the offending file:line, not just a codemod list.
  4. Agrees with Tier-D reference practice — where the rule disagrees with how Stripe / Linear / GitHub / Docusaurus actually ship, the burden of proof is on the rule.
  5. Exceptions expire; baselines only shrink — no permanent grandfather; the baseline cannot silently regrow (ratchet integrity still belongs to audit-gate-logic).

Read the full file on GitHub · 190 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 Changed · +3 lines · -7 tokens per session a73dffe1bd94
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 187 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 16cf5575910a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

audit-doctrine is a skill published in the GitHub repository kensaurus/cursor-kenji (9 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 2,035 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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