output-quality-rubrics

output-quality-rubrics is a skill for Claude Code from Owl-Listener/ai-design-skills. It costs 25 tokens per session (511 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for judging AI-generated answers with a clear rubric. A rubric is a set of criteria and ratings used to decide how good an answer is.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps define evaluation criteria and rating scales for reviewing AI outputs and spotting unsupported or misleading claims.
Why use it?
It replaces subjective impressions with consistent checks for correctness, relevance, completeness, usefulness, clarity, tone, and safety.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the evaluation plugin — 7 skills, 3 commands shipped together

Good fit It helps define evaluation criteria and rating scales for reviewing AI outputs and spotting unsupported or misleading claims.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/owl-listener/ai-design-skills/output-quality-rubrics
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 Owl-Listener/ai-design-skills --skill output-quality-rubrics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/ai-design-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install evaluation, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 3 commands.

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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 511 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 $0.00025 $0.00511
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00255
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00102
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00051

Measured 12d ago against content hash d35fa1b79d89, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

output-quality-rubrics 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.

claude-plugin/evaluation/skills/output-quality-rubrics/SKILL.md · 42 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 42 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Output Quality Rubrics

Without a rubric, quality evaluation is subjective and inconsistent. A rubric defines what "good" means in concrete, measurable terms — so different evaluators reach the same conclusions.

Core Quality Dimensions

  • Accuracy: Is the information correct? Are claims verifiable? Are there hallucinations?
  • Relevance: Does the output address what the user actually asked? Is everything included necessary?
  • Completeness: Does the output cover everything needed? Are there gaps?
  • Helpfulness: Can the user actually use this output to accomplish their goal?
  • Clarity: Is the output easy to understand? Is it well-structured?
  • Tone appropriateness: Does the output match the expected tone for the context?
  • Safety: Is the output free from harmful, biased, or inappropriate content?

Building a Rubric

For each dimension, define a scale: Example — Accuracy (1-5):

  • 5: All claims are verifiable and correct. No hallucinations.
  • 4: Minor inaccuracies that don't affect usefulness. No hallucinations.
  • 3: Some inaccuracies that could mislead if not caught. No dangerous hallucinations.
  • 2: Significant inaccuracies. User would need to verify most claims.
  • 1: Major hallucinations or factually wrong information presented confidently.

Weighting Dimensions

Not all dimensions matter equally for every use case:

  • A medical AI weights accuracy and safety highest
  • A creative writing AI weights helpfulness and tone highest
  • A coding AI weights accuracy and completeness highest
  • A customer service AI weights tone and helpfulness highest Define weights when creating the rubric. Make the priorities explicit.

Rubric Calibration

A rubric is only useful if evaluators use it consistently:

  • Anchor examples: Provide sample outputs at each score level
  • Calibration sessions: Have multiple evaluators score the same outputs and discuss disagreements
  • Inter-rater reliability: Measure agreement between evaluators and refine the rubric until agreement is high
  • Edge case guidance: Document how to score ambiguous cases

Read the full file on GitHub · 42 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 · 42 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A d35fa1b79d89

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output-quality-rubrics is a skill published in the GitHub repository Owl-Listener/ai-design-skills (173 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 511 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 2026-08-30.

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