cgs-scope-check

cgs-scope-check is a skill for Claude Code from merlinhu1/codex-game-studio. It costs 44 tokens per session (564 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A game-production scope review guide for checking whether requested work fits the current milestone and dividing it into manageable parts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess scope fit, suggest cuts or deferrals, define dependencies and acceptance checks, and record risks and handoffs.
Why use it?
It helps identify work that should be reduced, postponed, or split before it puts the milestone at risk.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to assess scope fit, suggest cuts or deferrals, define dependencies and acceptance checks, and record risks and handoffs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/merlinhu1/codex-game-studio/cgs-scope-check
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add merlinhu1/codex-game-studio --skill cgs-scope-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/merlinhu1/codex-game-studio

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 564 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 $0.00044 $0.00564
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00282
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00113
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00056

Measured 9d ago against content hash c3c37c07e769, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cgs-scope-check 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.

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.

.agents/skills/cgs-scope-check/SKILL.md · 78 lines

What it actually says

Codex Game Studio Scope Check

Use this skill for scope check work in Template Game.

Objective

Assess whether requested work fits the milestone and propose cuts, deferrals, or safer slices.

Inputs

  • AGENTS.md
  • .codex/studio.json
  • task-relevant files named by the user or task record
  • production/timeline.md
  • production/session-state/active.md

Arguments

  • Objective or user request.
  • Target files, scenes, assets, or docs.
  • Constraints, deadlines, acceptance criteria, and verification command when known.

Procedure

  1. Clarify the requested assess whether requested work fits the milestone and propose cuts, deferrals, or safer slices. and identify the current project stage.
  2. Collect evidence for Scope Fit, Cut Option, Deferral.
  3. Break the work into owner-sized tasks with dependencies, risks, and acceptance checks.
  4. Produce the requested artifact or review with clear file paths and verification evidence.

Write Targets

  • production/

Output Contract

  • Summary
  • Scope Fit
  • Cut Option
  • Deferral
  • Recommendation
  • Risks
  • Changed files or proposed files
  • Verification evidence
  • Next owner or decision

Quality Gates

  • Scope Fit
  • Cut Option
  • Deferral
  • Recommendation
  • Scope remains bounded to the current task and project stage.
  • Report labels unverified assumptions separately from evidence.

Decision Gates

  • Continue only when the expected output can be verified or clearly labeled as a plan.
  • Escalate to producer or qa-playtester when scope, ownership, or acceptance evidence is ambiguous.
  • Stop before broad rewrites, generated prompt mirrors, or hidden lifecycle behavior.

Handoff

Report changed files, verification evidence, remaining risks, and the next owner or decision. Do not imply hidden hooks or autonomous background work.

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 · 78 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A c3c37c07e769

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cgs-scope-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository merlinhu1/codex-game-studio (53 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 564 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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