drift-detect

drift-detect is a skill for Codex from OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development. It costs 37 tokens per session (2,167 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A report that checks whether project plans, roadmaps, and documentation still match the current code. It gathers evidence and proposes a prioritized plan for rebuilding missing or outdated work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare a repository's code, documents, and GitHub work against a named feature, milestone, branch, or release scope. It produces a reality check and reconstruction plan without changing the project.
Why use it?
Plans become unreliable when code changes without corresponding updates, especially after a stalled project or before a release. This identifies those gaps before you act on stale information.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it to compare a repository's code, documents, and GitHub work against a named feature, milestone, branch, or release scope. It produces a reality check and reconstruction plan without changing the project.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/outline-driven-development/drift-detect
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 OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development --skill drift-detect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,167 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 $0.00037 $0.02167
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01084
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00433
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00217

Measured 3d ago against content hash 95f03b7f3232, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

drift-detect 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 3d 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.

.devin/skills/drift-detect/SKILL.md · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Drift detect

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger User says "plan drift", asks whether roadmap/plans/docs still match code, or decides what to rebuild when restarting a stalled project or cutting a release from stale plans
Authority Reversible local: writes only optional .outline/drift-detect/ evidence or reality-check artifacts; rollback is version control or undo. No remote mutation. No doc, issue, PR, or code mutation.
Side effect Optional local artifact under .outline/drift-detect/; rollback is deleting that directory
Done Reality Check Report returned with executive summary, drift analysis, gap analysis, cross-reference table, and prioritized reconstruction plan; every item evidence-cited

Inputs

  • Target scope: whole repo, named plan file, named milestone, release branch, or feature area. Must be supplied.
  • --sources=github,docs,code: comma list of sources to scan. If omitted, use all three. Omit a source only when unavailable or irrelevant.
  • --depth=quick|thorough: quick samples active surfaces; thorough follows related docs, symbols, and history. Default: thorough.
  • Optional output artifact: .outline/drift-detect/reality-check-YYYYMMDD-HHMM.md when the report is too long for chat.

Procedure

  1. Scope the scan. Restate the user's target. Resolve sources from flags; if none given, use all three. Create a scratch evidence bundle in memory or .outline/drift-detect/evidence.json only when needed for long synthesis. Keep it minimal: {github, docs, code, signals, generatedAt}. Done when: the target is restated, sources are resolved, and the evidence bundle is initialized.

  2. Collect GitHub reality (--sources=github). Use gh JSON output; never scrape web HTML.

    gh issue list --state open --limit 200 --json number,title,labels,state,assignees,createdAt,updatedAt,milestone,url
    gh pr list --state open --limit 100 --json number,title,state,isDraft,labels,createdAt,updatedAt,mergeStateStatus,reviewDecision,changedFiles,additions,deletions,files,url
    gh api repos/{owner}/{repo}/milestones --paginate --jq '[.[] | {number,title,state,open_issues,closed_issues,due_on,updated_at,description}]'
    

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 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. 3d ago Changed · -17 tokens per session 95f03b7f3232
  2. 5d ago First seen · 99 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 2dd2ecc2701f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

drift-detect is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development (52 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 2,167 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 2026-09-03.

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