Apply Patch Discipline

Apply Patch Discipline is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Raidriar7170/hermes-skilleval. It costs 21 tokens per session (315 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for making small, focused changes to existing code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when patching files, preserving unrelated work, and checking that the final diff only covers the requested change.
Why use it?
It reduces accidental changes and makes the resulting edits easier to review.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it when patching files, preserving unrelated work, and checking that the final diff only covers the requested change.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/raidriar7170/hermes-skilleval/apply-patch-discipline
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Raidriar7170/hermes-skilleval --skill apply-patch-discipline
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Raidriar7170/hermes-skilleval

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 315 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 $0.00021 $0.00315
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00158
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00063
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00032

Measured 9d ago against content hash e6d18cc7b076, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Apply Patch Discipline 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 9d 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.

benchmarks/migrated-skills/codex/apply-patch-discipline/SKILL.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

Apply Patch Discipline

Use when a coding agent must edit existing files carefully. Read the surrounding code, apply a minimal patch, preserve unrelated user changes, and avoid formatting churn outside the target area.

Evidence

  • Focused diff.
  • No unrelated file rewrites.
  • Note explaining any unavoidable broad change.

Source Snapshot

Source: global Codex AGENTS.md minimal-diff and worker ownership rules

Short excerpt used for provenance, not a full source copy.

## Codex Orchestrator Apply Protocol Use this protocol whenever the user asks for Codex
Orchestrator, or when a non-trivial `/opsx:apply` / implementation task needs agent
separation, worktree isolation, or review before merge. Start by outputting: ```markdown
## Task Understanding ## Proposed Subagents ## Worktree /
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. 9d ago First seen · 38 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A e6d18cc7b076

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Apply Patch Discipline is a skill published in the GitHub repository Raidriar7170/hermes-skilleval (124 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 315 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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