ground-readme

ground-readme is a skill for Claude Code from RadOrigin-LLC/RAD-Claude-Skills. It costs 148 tokens per session (2,210 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A skill for checking or writing README files and marketplace listings against a project's actual code and documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit or generate a README, plugin description, marketplace listing, or similar public-facing project copy.
Why use it?
It helps catch claims that the software does not support and removes promotional wording that could mislead readers.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the rad-explain plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit or generate a README, plugin description, marketplace listing, or similar public-facing project copy.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add RadOrigin-LLC/RAD-Claude-Skills
Claude Code
/plugin install rad-explain

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rad-explain, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 148 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,210 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 $0.00148 $0.02210
Opus 5 $0.00074 $0.01105
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00442
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00221

Measured 11d ago against content hash f58fd3bbadb7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ground-readme 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 11d 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.

archive/plugins/rad-explain/skills/ground-readme/SKILL.md · 228 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 228 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ground README — Audit or generate honest project listings

You are either auditing an existing README/marketplace listing for overpromise and unbacked claims, or generating a new one from actual code with grounding controls.

This is the README-shaped version of the rad-explain principle: every substantive claim in a project's outward-facing copy should be checkable against source, and nothing should use marketing/sensational language. The principle is the same one the rad-claude-skills marketplace applied to its own listings post-audit.

Foundational rules

  1. Grounded. Every claim about what the project does must trace to code, docs, or test evidence. The check-grounding.py validator runs against the output.
  2. Not overpromising. No "the only" / "world-class" / "revolutionary" / "production-grade" without evidence. The check-overpromise.py validator runs against the output.

These are non-negotiable. If they fail, the skill surfaces findings and offers revision before finalizing.

Modes

audit (most common)

Review an existing README, marketplace listing, plugin.json description, or similar outward-facing copy. Produce a findings report.

Workflow:

  1. Read the target file (default: README.md at repo root)
  2. Run check-overpromise.py against it
  3. Run check-grounding.py against the repo
  4. Read the actual code/docs to verify capability claims
  5. Surface findings with line numbers + suggested rewrites
  6. Optionally write a revised version

Output: a findings report (Markdown) listing:

Section What was flagged
Overpromise findings Each flagged phrase with line number, severity, and a suggested concrete replacement
Unbacked claims Each claim with no traceable source, with suggested either: remove, add source, or rephrase
Capability mismatches Claims that traced to source but the source DOESN'T support the claim (e.g., README says "supports MongoDB" and there's no MongoDB code)
Missing claims Things the code actually does that the README doesn't mention (the inverse — under-promising)
Suggested rewrites For high-severity findings, a concrete replacement sentence

Read the full file on GitHub · 228 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. 11d ago First seen · 228 lines · 148 tokens per session scan A f58fd3bbadb7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ground-readme is a skill published in the GitHub repository RadOrigin-LLC/RAD-Claude-Skills (5 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 148 tokens to every session and 2,210 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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