evidence-check

evidence-check is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from MichaelYcJo/SpecSeal. It costs 88 tokens per session (6,206 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checker for evidence ledgers: files that record which specification is supported by which code locations. It verifies that those file paths and line ranges still exist and have not changed since the recorded baseline.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check ledger health, review specification-driven changes before merging, run the check in continuous integration, and recheck references after large refactors.
Why use it?
Code moves and line numbers change, leaving old references pointing at the wrong place or nowhere. This catches broken or outdated references before someone relies on them.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Part of the specseal plugin — 23 skills, 3 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to check ledger health, review specification-driven changes before merging, run the check in continuous integration, and recheck references after large refactors.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/michaelycjo/specseal/evidence-check
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 MichaelYcJo/SpecSeal --skill evidence-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MichaelYcJo/SpecSeal

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install specseal, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 23 skills, 3 agents, 3 hooks.

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 evidence-check

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/michaelycjo/specseal/evidence-check/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/michaelycjo/specseal/evidence-check)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/michaelycjo/specseal/evidence-check"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/michaelycjo/specseal/evidence-check/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 evidence-check

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/michaelycjo/specseal/evidence-check"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/michaelycjo/specseal/evidence-check.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,206 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 $0.00088 $0.06206
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.03103
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.01241
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00621

Measured 2d ago against content hash d5e007f94753, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

evidence-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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/evidence_check.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/evidence-check/SKILL.md · 441 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 441 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

evidence-check — does the ledger still point at what it claims?

Specs rot silently: code moves, the ledger's coordinates keep claiming grounds that are no longer there, and the next reader trusts them. This skill makes that rot mechanical to catch — the same way a broken test catches a regression.

A coordinate names content, never a position

path#major                     the enclosing unit
path#major>minor               ... narrowed to the place a claim is about

Both carry a hash: path#major@3f9a2c1b, path#major>minor@a71b0e42.

A coordinate's job is to put a reader in the right logic, not to pin a line. So the address is the enclosing unit, which is stable against every edit that does not change what the unit is.

Level What it is Where it comes from
Major a function or class for code, a heading path for a document ast for .py; otherwise the declaration rule below; ## A / ### B for markdown
Minor, optional the statement the claim is actually about the name it references (ast for .py), or a quoted line as a last resort
| CLAUSE | `hooks/routing.py#parse@3f9a2c1b` | ... |
| CLAUSE | `agents/smith.md#"## Boundaries"@a71b0e42` | ... |
| CLAUSE | `hooks/gate.py#run>overlaps@5d1e7c04` | ... |

Escape a pipe inside a quoted anchor as \|, or the row splits the table it lives in.

The rule that decides everything else

An anchor degrades to DRIFTED, never to BROKEN.

The two cost different things. BROKEN says I cannot find it, go edit the ledger — the bookkeeping this design exists to remove. DRIFTED says it changed, go re-read the claim — the work the ledger exists for.

So the minor level narrows what is hashed and never decides whether the row resolves. A minor anchor that stopped matching, or that now matches several places, means that place changed: the row widens to its major unit and reports DRIFTED. Only the major level can be BROKEN.

That is how specific and not strict stop fighting. Precision buys a smaller hash and a row that says what it is about; it never buys a new way to fail.

Read the full file on GitHub · 441 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. 2d ago Changed · +67 lines d5e007f94753
  2. 4d ago Changed · +47 lines 8ebc698b41f3
  3. 5d ago Changed · +242 lines · +1 tokens per session 663744d00e17
  4. 9d ago First seen · 85 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A 259233f8d746

Subscribe to this mod's changes

evidence-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository MichaelYcJo/SpecSeal (1 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 6,206 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 2026-08-31.

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