credible-claims

credible-claims is a skill for Claude Code from pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow. It costs 66 tokens per session (891 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A process for planning research tasks and recording the evidence behind their findings. It uses a research brief before work begins and a claim record afterward.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for delegated or AI-assisted research, simulations, proofs, data work, and reports that need defensible claims.
Why use it?
It reduces vague assignments and unsupported conclusions by requiring clear boundaries, completion criteria, and inspectable evidence.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it for delegated or AI-assisted research, simulations, proofs, data work, and reports that need defensible claims.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow/credible-claims
About the project

claude-code-my-workflow is a forkable setup for using Claude Code to produce and review academic papers, slides, data analyses, and replication packages. Researchers use its agents, skills, rules, hooks, and quality checks to coordinate these tasks and verify their results. The catalogue entries define the reusable workflow components for Claude Code.

pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow · 1,569 stars · on GitHub · psantanna.com

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 pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --skill credible-claims
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 891 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 $0.00066 $0.00891
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00445
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00178
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00089

Measured 10d ago against content hash 19cab4a6f7b5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

credible-claims 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.

.claude/skills/credible-claims/SKILL.md · 51 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 51 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Credible claims: the brief before, the record after

Cheaper generation increases demand for scarce validation. The fix is two lightweight artifacts: a research brief that constrains what the system may do, and a claim record that constrains what may be reported. Applies to agents, workflows, sims, proof patches, data construction — anything delegated.

Three standing rules

  1. Delegate only after inputs, boundaries, and completion criteria are clear. No open-ended "make it better" runs.
  2. Require evidence, not confident conclusions. Every delegated task returns inspectable evidence: locations, diffs, diagnostics, counts, failing cases, logs — never just "done/looks fine."
  3. Escalate anything that changes the economic object, the identifying assumptions, the inferential procedure, or the reporting language. Those decisions return to the researcher (the user), always. A standing user ruling counts as a returned decision; record it.

The research brief (before execution)

One short block, written before launching the work:

  • Question / target: what exactly is being estimated, proved, built.
  • Completion: what counts as done; what results would not answer the question.
  • Prohibited substitutions: what the system may not silently change (estimand, sample, assumptions, statement of a theorem, benchmark spec).
  • Known failure modes: what tends to go wrong here; the checks matched to each.
  • Required evidence: what must come back (numbers, locations, diffs, diagnostics).
  • Escalation triggers: which findings/decisions must return to the user before proceeding.
  • Blocked-route rule: a route that depends on unavailable data, an unsupported assumption, or an unproved result is marked blocked — a scientific outcome, not an instruction to search until a favorable answer appears.

The claim record (during/after execution)

For each claim the work will support:

  • Support: which data/analysis/proof supports it (with locations).
  • Changes after seeing results: anything modified after outcomes were visible, and why (diagnostic-triggered fix vs favorable switch — keep these distinguishable).
  • Unresolved: checks that remain open, and how they constrain the language.
  • Decision: who decided what could be reported (user ruling vs assistant default).

Read the full file on GitHub · 51 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. 10d ago First seen · 51 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 19cab4a6f7b5

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credible-claims is a skill published in the GitHub repository pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow (1,569 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 891 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 2026-08-30.