requirements-verbatim

requirements-verbatim is a skill for Claude Code from Marcel-Bich/marcel-bich-claude-marketplace. It costs 101 tokens per session (1,310 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill that saves user requirements, decisions, approvals, and constraints word for word in a dated, append-only project log.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to record agreed requirements and decisions before implementation, including requirements passed to other agents.
Why use it?
It keeps important instructions from being lost, shortened, or accidentally changed as work continues or the conversation is compacted.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents.

Part of the credo plugin — 26 skills, 15 commands, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to record agreed requirements and decisions before implementation, including requirements passed to other agents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/marcel-bich/marcel-bich-claude-marketplace/requirements-verbatim
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Marcel-Bich/marcel-bich-claude-marketplace --skill requirements-verbatim
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Marcel-Bich/marcel-bich-claude-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install credo, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 26 skills, 15 commands, 6 hooks.

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Per session 101 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,310 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 34
    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 $0.00101 $0.01310
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00655
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00262
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00131

Measured 12d ago against content hash 6ae698c45288, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

requirements-verbatim 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 12d 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.

plugins/credo/skills/requirements-verbatim/SKILL.md · 116 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 116 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

requirements-verbatim

Record requirements, decisions, approvals, and constraints exactly as the user stated them, into a durable on-disk log. The log is the ground truth for what was asked. It outranks memory, paraphrase, and model inference (see the authority order below). Its single job: nothing the user approved can be lost, altered, or quietly reinterpreted between now and when the work is verified.

When this fires

  • The user states a requirement, gives a GO, sets a constraint, or makes a decision.
  • The user approves or rejects a proposal (log what was approved, verbatim).
  • You (or a subagent) are handed a requirement and are about to act on it: log it first.
  • Before any compaction (see the credo compact-plus skill): the verbatim log must already hold everything approved, because a compact must not be able to lose or alter it.

This fires inside subagents too. A subagent that receives a requirement from the main agent logs the verbatim source itself rather than trusting a paraphrase.

Where it lives

Append-only log files under .credo/process/requirements/ in the current project (the credo per-project namespace created by scripts/credo-init.sh). One dated file, for example .credo/process/requirements/2026-07-04.md, appended to across the day.

  • Append only. Never edit or delete an existing entry. A correction is a NEW entry that references the earlier one; the original stays.
  • Write atomically (temp file plus mv -f) per the credo persistence convention, so a crash mid-write cannot corrupt the log.
  • .credo/** is intentionally git-excluded. Durability comes from disk plus whatever external backup the environment provides (for example an automatic file backup), not from commits. Do not add or force-add .credo/ to git.

Verbatim fidelity (anti-censorship - absolute)

  • Quote the user WORD FOR WORD. Preserve wording, ordering, emphasis, and any explicit numbers or limits.
  • NEVER trim, soften, summarize away, reinterpret, sanitize, or censor what the user said. This holds regardless of the content, including sensitive or uncomfortable material. If in doubt, quote more, not less.
  • NEVER invent a constraint the user did not state. Do not present your own interpretation as the user's requirement.
  • Keep user-verbatim STRICTLY separate from anything you add. Every entry has two clearly labeled zones:
    • User (verbatim) - the exact words, quoted. Nothing of yours here.
    • Assistant (proposal / finding) - optional. Your interpretation, proposal, open question, or note. Clearly marked as yours, never mixed into the verbatim zone.

Read the full file on GitHub · 116 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. 12d ago First seen · 116 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A 6ae698c45288

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requirements-verbatim is a skill published in the GitHub repository Marcel-Bich/marcel-bich-claude-marketplace (13 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 1,310 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 2026-08-30.