governance-link-drift-audit

governance-link-drift-audit is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from orlando-japan/claude-code-setting. It costs 48 tokens per session (533 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A check for stale links between a project’s READMEs, agent instructions, skills, rules, runtime entrypoints, and its current authoritative documents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after governance-document changes to trace old filenames and paths, check onboarding documents, and separate broken links from incorrect document content.
Why use it?
It finds references to files or paths that were moved, renamed, or retired, so people and coding agents do not follow outdated instructions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it after governance-document changes to trace old filenames and paths, check onboarding documents, and separate broken links from incorrect document content.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/orlando-japan/claude-code-setting/governance-link-drift-audit
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 orlando-japan/claude-code-setting --skill governance-link-drift-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/orlando-japan/claude-code-setting

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 533 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 $0.00048 $0.00533
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00267
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00107
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00053

Measured 12d ago against content hash bf3134a96789, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

governance-link-drift-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 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.

templates/extra/skills/governance-link-drift-audit/SKILL.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

A repository can have the right canonical document and still fail operationally if every entrypoint keeps pointing somewhere old. This skill checks the reference chain around governance documents, runtime instructions, and onboarding entrypoints.

When drift is present

Common symptoms:

  • README points to a retired path
  • skill docs still reference an old whitelist or patch index
  • runtime instructions mention files that were moved or renamed
  • governance docs were updated, but operational entrypoints were not

Audit target set

Check these first:

  1. README / navigation / whitelist documents
  2. Agent instruction files (AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, similar)
  3. Skills and rules that name authoritative docs explicitly
  4. Operational checklists that still assume old locations

Audit workflow

  1. Identify the current authority
    • What is the active canonical doc or canonical doc set now?
  2. Trace all direct references
    • Search for old filenames, retired paths, and old aliases
  3. Separate content drift from link drift
    • If the content is wrong, that is a governance change
    • If the content is right but references are stale, that is link drift
  4. Classify impact
    • High: runtime or onboarding path leads to wrong authority
    • Medium: supporting docs still reference retired material
    • Low: historical or low-traffic docs have stale links
  5. Default to audit-only unless explicitly told to edit
    • The safest default is to report the stale edges first

Preferred output

Current authority:
- <file/path>

Drift findings:
- High: <stale runtime/onboarding link>
- Medium: <supporting doc drift>
- Low: <historical drift>

Recommended smallest fix:
- <patch the entrypoint>
- <patch the secondary references>

Anti-patterns

  • Assuming moved docs are harmless if the main doc is correct — users often enter through secondary paths.
  • Fixing links without checking authority first — you can make drift more durable by wiring everything to the wrong file.
  • Auto-editing everything at once — prioritize entrypoints, then supporting references.

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 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. 12d ago First seen · 69 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A bf3134a96789

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governance-link-drift-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository orlando-japan/claude-code-setting (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 533 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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