tuning-detections-to-reduce-false-positives

tuning-detections-to-reduce-false-positives is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack. It costs 63 tokens per session (623 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for examining noisy security detections and finding which alert fields create false positives. A false positive is an alert that looks suspicious but is actually harmless.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze labelled alert history, identify likely allow-list filters, adjust thresholds, and estimate changes to precision and missed detections.
Why use it?
It helps reduce alert fatigue while checking how proposed filters could affect real attacks. The analysis separates benign noise from signals that should remain visible.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to analyze labelled alert history, identify likely allow-list filters, adjust thresholds, and estimate changes to precision and missed detections.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack/tuning-detections-to-reduce-false-positives
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack --skill tuning-detections-to-reduce-false-positives
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 623 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 $0.00063 $0.00623
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00311
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00125
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00062

Measured 9d ago against content hash 22f0e3c64dfd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tuning-detections-to-reduce-false-positives 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/analyst.py), 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.

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/tuning-detections-to-reduce-false-positives/SKILL.md · 86 lines

What it actually says

Tuning Detections to Reduce False Positives

When to Use

  • A detection generates excessive false positives and you want a data-driven tuning plan: which fields/values drive the noise, what filters to add, and the precision impact.
  • You are balancing recall against alert fatigue.

Do not use tuning that suppresses true positives — filters must target benign noise, not the malicious pattern. Always estimate the impact on true positives before applying.

Prerequisites

  • Labeled alert history (CSV/JSON) with at least an outcome/label field (true_positive vs false_positive) and the alert's distinguishing fields.

Workflow

Step 1: Quantify false-positive sources

python scripts/analyst.py analyze alerts.csv --label verdict --field ParentImage

Ranks field values by how much false-positive volume they drive and computes current precision/false-positive rate.

Step 2: Recommend filters

Suggest allow-list filters for values that are overwhelmingly benign (high FP, no/low TP), with the projected precision gain.

Step 3: Estimate impact

Report how many true positives would be lost (should be zero/near-zero for safe filters).

Step 4: Apply and monitor

Add the safe filters to the rule's filter/exclusion and continue monitoring precision.

Validation

  • FP-driving values are ranked by their false-positive contribution.
  • Recommended filters target values with negligible true-positive loss.
  • Projected precision and TP-loss are reported.

Pitfalls

  • Filtering a value that also carries true positives, blinding the detection.
  • Over-fitting to one time window's noise.
  • Tuning by gut feel instead of measured FP/TP contribution.

References

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 9d ago First seen · 86 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 22f0e3c64dfd

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tuning-detections-to-reduce-false-positives is a skill published in the GitHub repository meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack (22 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 623 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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