confirmation-protocol

confirmation-protocol is a skill for Claude Code from PsychQuant/che-apple-mail-mcp. It costs 88 tokens per session (1,880 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A confirmation workflow for email actions that first clarifies vague requests and shows the messages and side effects that would be affected.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before sending mail, handling unclear filters, performing bulk operations on five or more emails, or making destructive email changes.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of sending, deleting, moving, or archiving the wrong emails, especially when many messages are involved.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the che-apple-mail-mcp plugin — 3 skills, 5 commands, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it before sending mail, handling unclear filters, performing bulk operations on five or more emails, or making destructive email changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/psychquant/che-apple-mail-mcp/confirmation-protocol
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 PsychQuant/che-apple-mail-mcp --skill confirmation-protocol
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PsychQuant/che-apple-mail-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install che-apple-mail-mcp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 5 commands, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,880 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Agent Snooping · line 158
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 159
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
  • low Excessive Agency · line 145
    Skill's behavior or capabilities extend beyond its stated purpose. Scope creep allows an agent to perform actions unrelated to its documented functionality, increasing the attack surface.
    Fix: Limit the skill's scope to its documented purpose. Remove instructions that enable the agent to perform actions outside its stated functionality.
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 $0.00088 $0.01880
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00940
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00376
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00188

Measured 8d ago against content hash a9f5fa7d5bf5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

confirmation-protocol 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 8d 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.

plugin/skills/confirmation-protocol/SKILL.md · 161 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 161 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Confirmation Protocol — Email Operations

核心原則

AI 不直接執行,先 show 結構化的「我理解你要的是這樣」讓 user confirm/correct/reject,achieve consensus 後才執行

借鑑自 Foresay 的 Confirmation Protocol(該專案 2026-07 前名為 NSQL)。它最初設計給 SQL/data query;這裡 adapt 到 Apple Mail 操作。

Bootstrap(v2.9.0+ 鐵律,強制)

被 trigger 時(filter 模糊 / bulk operation ≥ 5 / destructive / compose 寄出),第一個動作就用 TaskCreate 把要跑的 phases 建成 todo list:

TaskCreate(subject="confirm_phase1_disambiguation",
           description="Filter 是否模糊?模糊 → 列候選 + AskUserQuestion 選定;明確 → 直接 mark completed。處理完 update。")

TaskCreate(subject="confirm_phase2_search_preview",
           description="Search 結果 ≥ 5 → bulk-operation-preview skill 跑 thread breakdown + false-positive flagging,展示 user;< 5 且無 ⚠⚠ → mark completed。")

TaskCreate(subject="confirm_phase3_operation_confirmation",
           description="展示 side-effect scope (N files written, K attachments, total bytes)。Destructive 加 ⚠ 警告。User AskUserQuestion 答覆(a)確認 (b)排除 false positive (c)改 filter (d)取消。")

TaskCreate(subject="confirm_phase4_execute_or_iterate",
           description="按 user 答覆執行 / 回 Phase 1-3 / abort。Abort 時要明確告訴 user『未做任何 side effect』。")

完成每一個 phase 立即 TaskUpdate → completed。靜默 skip = 違規。即使該 phase 是「可 skip」(明確 filter 跳 Phase 1),也要 TaskUpdate completed + 註明 skip 原因(在 description 裡 append),不可只是不做。

為什麼:沒 task tracking 時,Claude 容易把 Phase 2 preview 用「應該還好吧」rationalize 掉,直接寫檔。Task 標 incomplete 在 UI 看得見,user 知道有東西被跳。

何時觸發

觸發條件 範例 嚴重度
Filter ambiguity 「陳老師」、「最近的信」、「VIP 寄來的」 🔴 必 confirm
Bulk operation search 結果 ≥ 5 封 🟡 建議 confirm
Destructive delete_email、empty Trash、bulk move 🔴 必 confirm
Compose 寄出 compose_email、reply_email 🔴 必 confirm
Outbound side effect mark_as_junk、forward_email 🟡 建議 confirm

Skip confirm(可以直接執行):

  • 明確 Message-ID 的 read-only 操作(get_email、list_attachments)
  • Single email mark_read/unflag
  • 純 search/list(沒有 side effect)

Read the full file on GitHub · 161 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. 8d ago First seen · 161 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A a9f5fa7d5bf5

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confirmation-protocol is a skill published in the GitHub repository PsychQuant/che-apple-mail-mcp (8 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 1,880 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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