checklist

checklist is a skill for Claude Code from mehrad-dm/mastermind. It costs 128 tokens per session (844 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A requirements checklist for one concern in a feature specification, such as security, privacy, user experience, accessibility, APIs, data, performance, or localization. It tests whether the requirement is clear and complete, not whether the code works.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a specification against a chosen concern and write questions that cite the relevant requirement or identify a gap.
Why use it?
It exposes missing cases and vague wording before implementation, when requirements are cheaper to correct than software.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Part of the mastermind plugin — 32 skills, 4 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to review a specification against a chosen concern and write questions that cite the relevant requirement or identify a gap.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mehrad-dm/mastermind/checklist
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 mehrad-dm/mastermind --skill checklist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mehrad-dm/mastermind

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mastermind, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills, 4 agents, 1 hook.

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 checklist

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mehrad-dm/mastermind/checklist/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/mehrad-dm/mastermind/checklist)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mehrad-dm/mastermind/checklist"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mehrad-dm/mastermind/checklist/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for checklist

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mehrad-dm/mastermind/checklist"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mehrad-dm/mastermind/checklist.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 128 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 844 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 $0.00128 $0.00844
Opus 5.5 $0.00051 $0.00338
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00026 $0.00169
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00084

Measured 15d ago against content hash 16a93b0fdf47, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

checklist 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 15d 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/checklist/SKILL.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MasterMind: Checklist

A checklist here is a unit test for the requirements' wording: each item asks whether the spec says enough, clearly enough, about one concern. It never asks whether the code works. Feature and concern: $ARGUMENTS.

Tests the code (wrong here):    Verify the logo shows on the home page.
Tests the requirement (right):  Does the spec say what is shown when the logo fails to load? [Gap, Edge cases]

Write it

  1. Pick the concern. From the request, or the riskiest one the spec touches: security, privacy, UX, accessibility, API, data, performance, localization. Ask only if two concerns are equally likely, and recommend one.
  2. Read the feature's spec.md, plus plan.md and tasks.md if they exist, and the constitution.
  3. Write 10 to 30 items to specs/<feature>/checklists/<concern>.md. Each item is a question about the requirements, ends with its quality dimension, and cites a spec ID or [Gap]:
- [ ] CHK007 Are rate limits specified for every public endpoint? [Completeness, FR-009]
- [ ] CHK008 Is "secure session" defined with an expiry and a revocation rule? [Clarity, FR-012]
- [ ] CHK009 Does the spec say who may delete another user's export? [Gap, Coverage]

When a model's output drives an action, the security list asks whether the spec limits that action in code. An instruction in a prompt is not a boundary.

Quality dimensions: Completeness · Clarity · Consistency · Measurability · Coverage (edge, error, recovery, non-functional) · Assumptions · Conflicts.

Rules

  • At least 80% of items cite a spec ID or [Gap]. An item with no anchor is an opinion.
  • Never tick a box you generated. [x] means a reviewer judged the requirement good enough. Mark only what the user asks you to evaluate, and say which you marked.
  • Append, never overwrite. A second run on the same concern adds items with new IDs.
  • Items start with a question word: Are, Is, Does, Do, Can. "Verify", "Test" and "Confirm" mean you slipped into testing code.

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 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. 15d ago First seen · 60 lines · 128 tokens per session scan A 16a93b0fdf47

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checklist is a skill published in the GitHub repository mehrad-dm/mastermind (23 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 128 tokens to every session and 844 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-10-08.