Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to open-horizon-labs/repo-native-alignment. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/open-horizon-labs/repo-native-alignment/main/.agents/skills/aim/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/open-horizon-labs/repo-native-alignmentWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/open-horizon-labs/repo-native-alignment/aim)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/open-horizon-labs/repo-native-alignment/aim"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/open-horizon-labs/repo-native-alignment/aim/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/open-horizon-labs/repo-native-alignment/aim"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/open-horizon-labs/repo-native-alignment/aim.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00035 | $0.02049 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00017 | $0.01025 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00410 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00205 |
Grade A, and why
aim 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 10d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 293 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
/aim
Clarify the outcome you want. An aim is a change in user behavior, not a feature shipped. This is the first step in the Intent-Execution-Review loop.
The aim IS the abstraction. When you clarify what behavior you want to change, you're abstracting the business domain itself. Features are just the mechanism; the aim is why they matter.
When to Use
Invoke /aim when:
- Starting new work - Before diving into problem-statement or problem-space
- Scope feels fuzzy - You can describe what you're building but not why
- Multiple solutions seem valid - Aim clarifies which one actually moves the needle
- Work has drifted - Return to aim to check if you're still on track
- Team is misaligned - Shared aim surfaces hidden assumptions
Do not use when: You already have a crisp aim and need to explore the problem space or solution space. Move to /problem-statement or /problem-space instead.
The Aim Process
Step 1: State the Desired Behavior Change
Start with the user, not the system. What do you want users to do differently after this work ships?
"Users will [specific behavior] instead of [current behavior]."
Bad: "Add dark mode toggle" Good: "Users can work comfortably at night without eye strain"
Bad: "Improve onboarding flow" Good: "New users reach their first value moment within 5 minutes"
Key distinction: Features are outputs. Behavior changes are outcomes.
Step 2: Identify the Mechanism
The mechanism is your hypothesis - the causal lever you believe will produce the behavior change. It's the "because" that connects your work to the outcome.
"This will happen because [mechanism]."
Format:
Mechanism: [What you're changing]
Hypothesis: [Why you believe it will produce the outcome]
Assumptions: [What must be true for this to work]
Step 3: Define the Feedback Signal
How will you know if the aim is achieved? What signal validates or disproves the mechanism?
"We'll know it's working when [observable signal]."
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 293 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 21b0c7b76f77
aim is a skill published in the GitHub repository open-horizon-labs/repo-native-alignment (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 2,049 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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