cargo-coupling: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/check-balance/SKILL.md

check-balance is a skill for Claude Code from nwiizo/cargo-coupling. It costs 22 tokens per session (417 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line health check for measuring how balanced the dependencies between code modules are over time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for daily checks, CI quality gates, baseline comparisons, and Git-history reviews.
Why use it?
It provides a quick way to spot worsening module relationships and enforce a minimum quality grade.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

This is nwiizo/cargo-coupling's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on cargo-coupling itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything cargo-coupling configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to nwiizo/cargo-coupling. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nwiizo/cargo-coupling/main/.claude/skills/check-balance/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nwiizo/cargo-coupling

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 417 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00022 $0.00417
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00209
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00083
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00042

Measured 8d ago against content hash 45bce128ce79, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

check-balance 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 8d 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.

.claude/skills/check-balance/SKILL.md · 61 lines

What it actually says

Check Balance - Quick Health Check

Execution Steps

  1. Run cargo run -- coupling --summary $ARGUMENTS (default: ./src)
  2. Check balance score and health grade
  3. Provide brief advice if issues detected

Commands

# Summary check
cargo run -- coupling --summary ./src

# Japanese output
cargo run -- coupling --summary --japanese ./src

# CI/CD quality gate
cargo run -- coupling --check --min-grade=C ./src

# Ratchet gate against a baseline ref
cargo run -- coupling --check --baseline main --fail-on=high ./src

# Coupling health over git history
cargo run -- coupling --history ./src

Health Grades

Score Grade Status Action
0.90-1.00 A Excellent Maintain
0.80-0.89 B Good Minor improvements
0.60-0.79 C Acceptable Planned improvement
0.40-0.59 D Needs improvement Act soon
0.00-0.39 F Critical Immediate action

Issue Severity

Severity Action
Critical Fix immediately
High Fix within 1 week
Medium Plan to fix
Low Monitor

Ratchet Mode

cargo run -- coupling --check --baseline <ref> ./src compares current issues against the baseline ref and fails only on new issues at --fail-on severity or higher. The default ratchet threshold is High/Critical.

Next Steps

  • Low score: Run /analyze for details
  • Critical issues: Run /full-review for comprehensive analysis
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. 8d ago First seen · 61 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 45bce128ce79

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check-balance is a skill published in the GitHub repository nwiizo/cargo-coupling (96 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 417 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-01.

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