readchk

readchk is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from LilMGenius/paperthin. It costs 88 tokens per session (557 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A check that verifies the intended meaning of a request before substantial work begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to restate the task internally, compare that understanding with the available context, and ask one focused question when a genuine ambiguity remains.
Why use it?
It helps prevent spending time implementing the wrong interpretation of a long, ambiguous, or high-stakes instruction.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the paperthin plugin — 28 skills shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lilmgenius/paperthin/readchk
Any agent
npx skills add LilMGenius/paperthin --skill readchk
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LilMGenius/paperthin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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

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.

agentmods badge for readchk

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lilmgenius/paperthin/readchk.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/lilmgenius/paperthin/readchk)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/lilmgenius/paperthin/readchk"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lilmgenius/paperthin/readchk.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 557 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00088 $0.00557
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00279
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00111
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00056

Measured 4d ago against content hash ad031663c912, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

readchk 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 4d 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/depth/readchk/SKILL.md · 34 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 34 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Check the read before acting: did you understand the instruction correctly enough to spend the work?

Goal

readchk catches misread instructions before they become coherent work against the wrong target. It verifies a claim about the requester's intent against available context: the current message, session history, project memory, files on disk, and established conventions.

This is not factchk: the question is what was meant, not whether a world claim is true.

Workflow

  1. Recognize the signal: a long or multi-part instruction, ambiguous scope or referents, deliberately flexible wording, or stakes high enough that a wrong guess would cost real work.
  2. Restate the instruction internally in different words. Do not copy the user's wording back to yourself and treat that as understanding.
  3. Cross-check the restatement against available context. Look for contradictions, missing antecedents, or two plausible readings that context cannot choose between.
  4. If context resolves the read, proceed silently. Do not ask the requester to confirm what the available context already answered.
  5. If a real fork survives, surface one specific clarifying question anchored to the restated understanding. Name the choice; do not ask a vague "does this look right?"
  6. For substantial work, log one durable "understood as: ..." line before beginning so a later reader can audit whether the work matched the confirmed read.

Rules

  • Restate, don't echo. A paraphrase proves you built a model of the request; a verbatim repeat proves little.
  • Silent when context resolves it. The default good outcome is invisible. Surfacing a question for a resolved or unambiguous request is a defect.
  • One fork at a time. If several ambiguities exist, surface the highest-stakes one first instead of dumping a checklist.
  • Never silently resolve a fork that changes the shape of the work.
  • Log large commitments, not every turn. Durable read logs are for plans, multi-file changes, irreversible actions, or work a fresh reviewer may need to audit.

Read the full file on GitHub · 34 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. 4d ago First seen · 34 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A ad031663c912

Subscribe to this mod's changes

readchk is a skill published in the GitHub repository LilMGenius/paperthin (1,054 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 557 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

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