audit-noise

audit-noise is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from melodic-software/claude-code-plugins. It costs 224 tokens per session (5,986 once invoked), scanned D, original, MIT.

A read-only checker that finds common sources of unnecessary noise in Markdown documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect rules, skill files, instruction documents, READMEs, and other tracked Markdown files.
Why use it?
It helps identify historical notes, stale references, planning leftovers, and other text that makes documents harder to maintain or read.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the docs-hygiene plugin — 11 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/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins/audit-noise
Any agent
npx skills add melodic-software/claude-code-plugins --skill audit-noise
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install docs-hygiene, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 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 audit-noise

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins/audit-noise.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins/audit-noise)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins/audit-noise"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins/audit-noise.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 224 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,986 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 2 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 $0.00224 $0.05986
Opus 5 $0.00112 $0.02993
Sonnet 5 $0.00045 $0.01197
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00599

Measured yesterday against content hash 1659b110bf4f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

audit-noise scanned grade D with 2 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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 6 executable files (scripts/detect.sh, scripts/detect.test.sh, scripts/emit-findings.sh, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

- **Opt-out markers respected.** A well-formed HTML comment line `<!-- markdown-discipline-ignore -->` covers the next paragraph, through the next blank line or heading. `<!-- markdown-discipline-ignore-line -->` covers

Recursive force deletemediumDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

`token`, `password`, `api key`, `force-push`, `--force`, `rm -rf`, `destructive`, `irreversible`,

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

plugins/docs-hygiene/skills/audit-noise/SKILL.md · 217 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 217 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pre-computed context

Current branch: !git branch --show-current 2>/dev/null || echo "unknown" Uncommitted .md files (empty = none matched or the probe returned nothing): !git status --porcelain >/dev/null 2>&1 && { git status --porcelain 2>/dev/null | grep -E '\.md"?$' | head -10; :; } || echo "(git status unavailable)" Noise findings (sample): !${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/detect.sh 2>/dev/null | grep -E '^(Summary total:|Finding shape:)' | head -20 || echo "none"

Purpose

Tracked markdown accumulates nine NOISE shapes distinct from FLAVOR, owned by the sibling /docs-hygiene:compress. The surfaces include rules, skill bodies, instruction files (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md), docs/, and READMEs. Each shape carries a maintenance tax plus a reader-facing tax that compounds across the corpus. This skill is a read-only classifier: it surfaces candidates with treatment guidance; the author hand-applies every edit.

Three of the nine, plan-reference, conversational-antecedent, and ticket-pr-residue, carry the same names the code-side sibling /code-tidying:audit-comment-residue uses, because they are the same authoring failure landing in a different file type. Ownership splits by file type, not by shape: markdown is this skill's, everything else is the sibling's, and neither scans the other's files. The patterns are not shared code. The sibling classifies only the extracted comment portion of a line; this skill classifies whole prose, where the same words are load-bearing far more often, so its patterns are tightened accordingly and several of the sibling's cues are deliberately not carried over.

Existence pre-check (before in-page noise)

Before classifying in-page noise, ask the whole-page admission question first: could a reader with repository search derive this page's content from the code itself? A page failing admission is a deletion candidate. Its finding recommends relocate-then-delete (salvage anything admissible first), never a line-level noise treatment, and never auto-delete (this skill stays read-only).

Read the full file on GitHub · 217 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. yesterday First seen · 217 lines · 224 tokens per session scan D 1659b110bf4f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

audit-noise is a skill published in the GitHub repository melodic-software/claude-code-plugins (15 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 224 tokens to every session and 5,986 once invoked, about $0.0011 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 2 findings (hidden instructions, recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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