kb-check-drift

kb-check-drift is a skill for Claude Code from olegvg/olegvg-skills. It costs 69 tokens per session (1,468 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only check for whether a knowledge base has fallen out of date with the files it was built from. It compares recent Git changes with the knowledge base's last refresh record.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find files or topics that may need refreshing, or to decide whether to trust the knowledge base before querying it.
Why use it?
It shows whether stored answers may be stale without changing the knowledge base.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the olegvg-skills plugin — 7 skills, 6 commands, 1 plugin shipped together

Good fit Use it to find files or topics that may need refreshing, or to decide whether to trust the knowledge base before querying it.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/olegvg/olegvg-skills/kb-check-drift
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 olegvg/olegvg-skills --skill kb-check-drift
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/olegvg/olegvg-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install olegvg-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 6 commands, 1 plugin.

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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,468 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 $0.00069 $0.01468
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00734
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00294
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00147

Measured 12d ago against content hash 656b6b61b58e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kb-check-drift 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 12d 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/kb-check-drift/SKILL.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

kb-check-drift — Surface Refresh Candidates

When to use

User wants to know whether the KB is stale without committing to a rewrite. Run this before a query to decide whether to trust the KB, or periodically to spot drift.

Read-only. This skill NEVER modifies .kb/ content, summaries, indexes, or .kb-state.json. If changes are warranted, emit a list of refresh commands for the user to run.

The one exception: when invoked by kb-maintain or with --write-artifact, the skill writes an opt-in .kb/.drift-report.json so the downstream kb-refresh can reuse the diff/grep work. The artifact is ephemeral and recomputable — see references/drift-report-artifact.md.

Input

  • --write-artifact (optional) — write .kb/.drift-report.json after computing the report. Implied when invoked by kb-maintain.

Workflow

1. Read state

Open .kb/.kb-state.json. Extract last_linted_sha and last_linted_at.

If missing: report "no KB state — build or refresh has never run". Do not proceed.

If last_linted_sha == "no-git": report that drift check requires git. Stop.

2. Log the delta

Run:

git -C <corpus-root> log --stat <last_linted_sha>..HEAD
git -C <corpus-root> diff --name-status <last_linted_sha>..HEAD

Capture the list of changed files, rename/copy stats, deletions, additions, and commit messages.

3. Apply the heuristic

The heuristic is a checklist. Tune it by editing this file. The default checklist:

  • New files above threshold — if a single directory or area saw ≥5 new files since last refresh, flag that area.
  • File renames or moves — any rename under a directory referenced in .kb/indexes/ is a flag. Index references are stale by definition.
  • Changes to files referenced by existing indexes — grep .kb/indexes/ for paths; if any flagged path appears, the index entry is suspect.
  • Changes to files referenced by existing summaries — grep .kb/summaries/ for paths; if any flagged path appears, the summary is suspect.
  • New top-level directory — may mean a new area needs an index.
  • Migration / schema files (e.g. migrations/**, *.sql, schema.*) — semantic shifts likely; any area touching data is suspect.
  • Deleted files referenced in .kb/ — hard flag. The KB points at something that no longer exists.
  • Completed plan with no decision record — if a plan file under docs/plans/ (or similar) has a sibling checklist with all items ticked, and no matching file exists in .kb/decisions/ (match by slug), recommend kb-record-decision <plan-path>. Soft flag — not every plan yields a durable decision.

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 12d ago First seen · 109 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 656b6b61b58e

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kb-check-drift is a skill published in the GitHub repository olegvg/olegvg-skills (7 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 1,468 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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