parity-setup

parity-setup is a skill for Claude Code from MichaelYcJo/SpecSeal. It costs 30 tokens per session (885 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup command that records which existing codebase this repository is meant to match. It saves that declaration in .specseal/parity.md.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when porting or reimplementing software from another repository. It helps locate possible originals, record a chosen baseline, and enable behavior comparisons.
Why use it?
It prevents comparisons against the wrong original and makes the source behavior part of implementation decisions. It also handles cases where the original repository changes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

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

Good fit Use it when porting or reimplementing software from another repository.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/michaelycjo/specseal/parity-setup
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 parity-setup
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 23 skills, 3 agents, 3 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 885 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 $0.00030 $0.00885
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00443
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00177
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00089

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3a605cac103b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

parity-setup 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.

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/parity-setup/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/specseal:parity-setup — turn on parity mode

Writes seal/parity.md, whose presence is the declaration that this repository ports behavior from another codebase. That turns on three-way judgment (policy ↔ original ↔ new code, with the original preserved when the policy is silent) and lets the scribe agent fetch what the original does.

The implement skill asks this question once, when it first bootstraps a repo. Use this command when the answer was no at the time, when the layout predates the question, or when the original repo changes.

Procedure

  1. Stop if it already exists. If seal/parity.md is present, show it and ask what should change instead of overwriting a declaration someone made.

  2. Find candidates for the original. Do not ask the user to type a path from memory when the machine can propose one:

    • sibling directories of this repo that are git checkouts — a port usually sits beside its original
    • an upstream or fork relation in git remote -v
    • repos whose directory structure overlaps this one's

    Present what you found with what each one is, and let the user pick or give a path. Never guess. A comparison against a guessed original proves nothing, which is worse than having no parity mode at all.

  3. Read the baseline. git -C <original> rev-parse HEAD. This is the commit the evidence ledger's coordinates will refer to, so record the SHA and the date you read it.

  4. Confirm the module. A port often covers one directory of a larger original (apps/foo), not the whole repo. Ask when the original has an obvious multi-module layout.

  5. Policy root. docs/policies/ if present; otherwise propose it and say it will be created on first use.

  6. Write two files.

    • seal/parity.md from templates/parity.md, committed. Coordinate-trust exceptions start empty.
    • ~/.claude/specseal/parity-paths.md — the machine-local checkout path, keyed by this repo's origin remote URL so worktrees and second checkouts resolve to one entry. This never goes in the committed file: it is wrong for every other machine.

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 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. 2d ago Changed · -2 tokens per session 3a605cac103b
  2. 6d ago First seen · 74 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 5716be2873fc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

parity-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository MichaelYcJo/SpecSeal (1 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 885 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 2026-08-31.

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