distribution-measure

distribution-measure is a skill for Claude Code from Lab2A/metalworks. It costs 243 tokens per session (1,160 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A measurement plan for distributing a demand report across selected channels. It defines what success means on each channel and how to record the results before publishing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose channel-specific success measures and prepare tracking such as tagged links, install counts, replies, clicks, or citation appearances.
Why use it?
It prevents a launch from producing attention that cannot be connected to outcomes. Clear tracking shows which channels actually worked.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the metalworks plugin — 22 skills, 1 hook, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to choose channel-specific success measures and prepare tracking such as tagged links, install counts, replies, clicks, or citation appearances.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lab2a/metalworks/distribution-measure
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 Lab2A/metalworks --skill distribution-measure
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Lab2A/metalworks

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install metalworks, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 243 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,160 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 $0.00243 $0.01160
Opus 5 $0.00121 $0.00580
Sonnet 5 $0.00049 $0.00232
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00116

Measured 8d ago against content hash f8e1017ef058, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

distribution-measure 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.

plugin/skills/distribution-measure/SKILL.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Preamble (run first)

Before any other tool, run the preflight MCP tool (or metalworks preflight on the CLI). If it reports setup issues or that an update is available, surface that to the user in one line and help them resolve it (install the missing extra/key, or pip install -U metalworks) before continuing. Skip only if the user has already passed preflight this session.

Read the reference; never reverse-engineer the source. The moment you need to know how metalworks behaves — provider/model resolution, which source/reader runs, config precedence, an error you hit, or the async run loop — STOP and read docs/operating-metalworks.md (bundled with this plugin) before opening any file under src/. It is the source of truth; do not derive behavior from source. (Full docs: https://metalworks.lab2a.ai/docs.) For a long-running run, poll status with the Monitor tool or a bounded loop — never a blind sleep.

You are closing the distribution loop for one demand report. Everything else in the Distribution pillar PLANS — channels, assets, the sequenced push/stream plan. This is where it learns: you name, per channel, what "worked" means and exactly how to track it, so the human can record a real result and the next push re-ranks on evidence instead of vibes. metalworks can't watch live traffic, so in its lane it defines the metric + the instrument — it does not measure for you.

Steps

  1. Get the report_id. If the user hasn't run a report yet, point them at /demand-report first — the metrics are derived from the report's channel strategy (D2), which needs a finished report to ground on. (Ideally they've also run /distribution-plan so they know which push each metric belongs to.)

  2. Call the distribution_measure MCP tool with the report_id (or, on the CLI, run metalworks distribution measure <report_id>). It routes the report into its channel strategy, then returns one ChannelMetric per selected channel.

  3. Present each ChannelMetric honestly:

    • channel_name + surface_type — which channel this is for.
    • success_metric — what "worked" means for this channel (e.g. a launch platform → top-N + attributed signups in 7d; a marketplace → installs + WAU; a community → qualified replies + click-through; answer-engine GEO → citation appearances).
    • instrumentation — the concrete thing to wire BEFORE the push: a UTM tag, an attributed-signup query, a citation check. Tell the user to set this up first; a push you can't attribute is launch theater.

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 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. 8d ago First seen · 70 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A f8e1017ef058

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distribution-measure is a skill published in the GitHub repository Lab2A/metalworks (6 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 243 tokens to every session and 1,160 once invoked, about $0.0012 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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