ai-stance

ai-stance is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from paruff/uFawkesAI. It costs 58 tokens per session (1,709 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for creating and maintaining AISTANCE.md, a repository document that explains how the team may use AI tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when onboarding a repository to an AI development suite, reviewing its AI policy, or adopting a new AI tool.
Why use it?
It removes uncertainty about which AI uses are prohibited, conditionally allowed, or freely allowed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it when onboarding a repository to an AI development suite, reviewing its AI policy, or adopting a new AI tool.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/paruff/ufawkesai/ai-stance
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 paruff/uFawkesAI --skill ai-stance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paruff/uFawkesAI

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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.

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,709 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 $0.00058 $0.01709
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00855
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00342
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00171

Measured 12d ago against content hash 319f764b5b70, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-stance 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.

.agents/skills/ai-stance/SKILL.md · 186 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 186 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: AI Stance

Load trigger: "load ai-stance skill" > DORA: AI Capability 1 (Clear and communicated AI stance) Token cost: Low

Purpose

Produce and maintain AI_STANCE.md — the document that gives every contributor (human and agent) unambiguous clarity on how AI tools are used in this repo. Ambiguity creates risk; clarity creates psychological safety for effective experimentation.

DORA AI Capabilities Model v2025.1 identifies four required clarity dimensions: expectation of use, organizational support, permitted tools, and role applicability. This skill ensures all four are present.

Three-Bucket Framework

Every AI_STANCE.md must classify all AI tool usage into exactly three buckets. No "it depends" without specifying what it depends on.

Bucket Definition Decision rule
Prohibited Never permitted in this repo, regardless of context Safety, compliance, or trust boundary violated
Permitted with guardrails Allowed when stated conditions are met Default for most AI-assisted development
Allowed No special conditions required Low-risk, fully reversible, human-verifiable

Default Stance for uFawkes* Repos

Pre-populated for the fawkes suite. Override per repo as needed.

Prohibited

  • Sending PII, secrets, or proprietary infrastructure configs to public AI models
  • Committing AI-generated code without running pre-commit hooks
  • Bypassing branch protection rules because "the AI said it was fine"
  • Using AI to generate security policy or compliance documentation without human expert review
  • AI-generated content in Dojo modules without disclosure to learners

Permitted with Guardrails

Read the full file on GitHub · 186 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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 · 186 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 319f764b5b70

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ai-stance is a skill published in the GitHub repository paruff/uFawkesAI (2 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 1,709 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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