signature

signature is a skill for Claude Code from mehrad-dm/mastermind. It costs 71 tokens per session (1,216 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A record of a codebase’s recurring style and working conventions, written as rules for an AI coding assistant. It describes patterns in the code rather than judging individual contributors, and can turn repeated corrections into lasting guidance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to capture how a team structures, names, and writes code, then preserve those conventions as reusable rules after reviewing codebase examples and corrections.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to correct the assistant each time it writes code that does not fit the project. Keeping the rules focused on patterns also avoids storing personal criticism in shared project material.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the mastermind plugin — 23 skills, 4 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to capture how a team structures, names, and writes code, then preserve those conventions as reusable rules after reviewing codebase examples and corrections.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mehrad-dm/mastermind/signature
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 signature
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 23 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 signature

README.md
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Your own site
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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 signature

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,216 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 Memory Poisoning · line 13
    Skill injects content designed to persist in agent memory or context across interactions. Persistent injection can alter agent behavior long after the initial interaction.
    Fix: Do not allow untrusted input to persist in agent memory or context. Validate all content before storing and implement memory isolation between sessions.
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 $0.00071 $0.01216
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00608
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00243
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00122

Measured 10d ago against content hash 9184390e621c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

signature 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 10d 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/signature/SKILL.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Signature: capture a team's code style, turn it into rules the AI follows

A signature is your team's code style and conventions: the way your code recognizably looks and reads, like handwriting. The name is MasterMind's; the thing it captures is plain old code style.

A codebase has a real style that's rarely written down: people can't list their own conventions, but recognize a violation instantly. This skill surfaces that tacit style and makes it durable: a correction you give once becomes a permanent rule, not a repeated fix. Two phases: capture (private, in the quarantine), then distil (name-free, into a field pack).

The rule that never bends: patterns, not people. Describe what the code does ("this codebase resolves X by Y"), never rate a person ("so-and-so writes bad code"). The artifact is the pattern; the person is incidental: and a file that judges a named person is a career-risk if it leaks. Group by contributor only as a source of signal, phrased neutrally.

Phase 1: Capture (private, stays in the quarantine)

  1. Consent + Lab first. Ask before scanning a real, possibly-private codebase (and which paths). All output has names, so it lands in lab/ (gitignored): if there's no Lab, set one up (quarantine skill) first.
  2. Two sources, the second is the gold:
    • Repeated corrections (highest value). What people tell the AI over and over: "do X not Y", "always…", "stop doing…", recurring review comments, AI diffs reverted-and-redone. Explicit, human-validated, de-noised. Weight by frequency (seen 20× = a rule; once = noise). Read the corrections log if one exists; help start one if not.
    • Codebase patterns (lower confidence). Recurring idioms in code/history: naming, layout, how state/data/errors are handled. Candidate patterns, not truth (blame is noisy; in-repo ≠ endorsed).
  3. Output: neutral profiles in lab/analysis/: pattern · frequency · source · first-pass kind (convention | correctness | unsure). Neutral wording is not optional: if you can't phrase it about the pattern, drop it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 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. 10d ago First seen · 69 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 9184390e621c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

signature is a skill published in the GitHub repository mehrad-dm/mastermind (24 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 1,216 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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