legacy-parity

legacy-parity is a skill for Claude Code from MichaelYcJo/SpecSeal. It costs 85 tokens per session (1,233 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for preserving behavior while moving a system from older technology to newer technology. It compares the written policy, the original code, and the migrated code, using the original behavior as the default reference.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when porting or reviewing migrated behavior in a project with a parity configuration file. It helps judge whether the new implementation matches the legacy original and recorded policy.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish an intentional redesign from an accidental migration change. This reduces the risk of silently altering how an existing system works.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Part of the specseal plugin — 22 skills, 5 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when porting or reviewing migrated behavior in a project with a parity configuration file. It helps judge whether the new implementation matches the legacy original and recorded policy.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install specseal, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 5 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,233 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 $0.00085 $0.01233
Opus 5.5 $0.00034 $0.00493
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00247
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00123

Measured 4d ago against content hash b07fcc4d1306, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

legacy-parity 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 4d 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/legacy-parity/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

legacy-parity, the original is the fallback spec

Extends implement and code-review when the work is a migration, the same behavior rebuilt on different technology, in a repository that declares seal/parity.md. A scribe reads the sections that find and trace the original: The migration config, What the original sends and The original's coordinates. The sections that judge and record are its caller's.

Premise

Preserve the original's behavior. A migration is not a redesign: a safer design or a more consistent API is never grounds to diverge. An original that looks wrong is reported, and changing it is the planner's call. check: none reader: the parity review

The migration config

A migrating repository commits seal/parity.md, written from templates/parity.md, which holds its fields. A machine-local checkout path never goes in it: it lives in ~/.claude/specseal/parity-paths.md, keyed by the origin remote URL, so worktrees and second checkouts resolve to one entry.

The original resolves in this order: the recorded path, a sibling directory of the current repository, then a check by git remote -v against the declared original. Where none resolves, the caller asks the user and records the answer, and a reader that cannot ask returns original not found with what it tried. A comparison against a guessed original proves nothing. check: tests/test_review_axes.py

Three-way judgment

Where policy, the original and the new code diverge:

Situation Follow
Policy explicitly covers the divergence, and it holds up Policy. Grounds means a quotable sentence with its source; "the document probably said so" is not grounds
Policy silent The original, exactly
Grounds exist but look wrong Neither silently: record both texts side by side and escalate

Inherit before raising a product decision: where policy is silent and the original already does the thing, follow it and mark it decided, since only a rule in neither place needs a planner. check: none reader: the parity review

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 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. 4d ago Changed · -14 lines b07fcc4d1306
  2. 7d ago Changed · +16 lines · +5 tokens per session b7f6072ea7c9
  3. 11d ago Changed 9a9a6f2a9b94
  4. 14d ago Changed · -1 lines 7afaedf58bcb
  5. 1mo ago Changed · -1 tokens per session 5de2df1a9784
  6. 2mo ago First seen · 119 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 0995df7928c6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

legacy-parity is a skill published in the GitHub repository MichaelYcJo/SpecSeal (1 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 1,233 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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