silence-audit

silence-audit is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from NOMARJ/sigil. It costs 75 tokens per session (1,116 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A bias-checking review of the evidence used to build user personas. It identifies which people are missing from sources such as reviews, forums, interviews, research, and analytics.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list missing perspectives, assess how their absence affects the findings, and suggest ways to reduce the gap.
Why use it?
Public online evidence often overrepresents some groups and leaves others unheard, which can make research conclusions incomplete or misleading.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to list missing perspectives, assess how their absence affects the findings, and suggest ways to reduce the gap.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nomarj/sigil/silence-audit
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add NOMARJ/sigil --skill silence-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NOMARJ/sigil

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,116 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 $0.00075 $0.01116
Opus 5.5 $0.00030 $0.00446
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00223
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00112

Measured 1mo ago against content hash dbed0c993a5b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

silence-audit 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 1mo 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.

packs/discovery/skills/silence-audit/SKILL.md · 128 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Silence Audit — Who Is Missing and Why

Purpose

Public internet evidence systematically over-represents certain populations and under-represents others. This skill makes that bias visible. It does not eliminate it — it names it, assesses its impact, and proposes mitigation.

A persona panel without a Silence Audit will confidently represent the internet's majority voice and mistake it for the whole picture. That is the opposite of empathy.

When to Run

  • Mandatory: After Step 3 (persona construction) in every full DISCOVER run
  • Optional: Standalone via /silence-audit to check existing evidence
  • Cannot be skipped during full DISCOVER

The Protocol

1. Identify Evidence Sources Present

List every source type used in the persona panel's evidence chains:

  • Product reviews
  • Forum discussions
  • Support threads
  • Social media
  • Published interviews
  • Job postings
  • Academic/industry research
  • Government/census data
  • Analytics data
  • Direct user conversations

2. Check for Systematic Over-Representation

These groups dominate public internet evidence:

Over-Represented Why
English speakers Internet content skews English
Tech-literate users They write reviews, post on forums
Affluent consumers They buy products worth reviewing
Vocal extremes Strong opinions get posted; mild ones don't
Younger demographics Higher social media activity
Urban populations Better internet access, more digital services

Ask: Does my persona panel disproportionately reflect these groups?

3. Check for Systematic Under-Representation

These groups are typically absent from public internet evidence:

Under-Represented Why
Non-English speakers Content in other languages wasn't searched
Older adults (65+) Lower digital presence, fewer reviews
Low-income users Don't buy products to review, less digital access
People with disabilities Unless product targets accessibility specifically
Regulated industry users Can't discuss work publicly (finance, defence, healthcare)
Silent satisfied Use the product daily, never post about it
Silent churn Tried it, left, said nothing
Rural populations Less digital infrastructure, fewer online communities
Non-binary/minority groups Under-represented in training data and review platforms

Read the full file on GitHub · 128 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. 1mo ago First seen · 128 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A dbed0c993a5b

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silence-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository NOMARJ/sigil (6 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 1,116 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 2026-09-03.