evidence-based-reviews

evidence-based-reviews is a skill for Claude Code from rampstackco/claude-skills. It costs 168 tokens per session (2,482 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for writing product reviews and buying guides that matches each claim to available evidence. It distinguishes verified specifications, combined owner experiences, expert sources, and genuine hands-on testing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Writing or auditing product reviews and buying guides, especially when hands-on access is limited. It also helps decide whether review or product information in search markup honestly reflects the evidence.
Why use it?
It prevents reviews from claiming that a product was personally tested when it was not. Readers can understand where each conclusion comes from and how much confidence to place in it.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the rampstack-skills plugin — 103 skills shipped together

Good fit Writing or auditing product reviews and buying guides, especially when hands-on access is limited. It also helps decide whether review or product information in search markup honestly reflects the evidence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rampstackco/claude-skills/evidence-based-reviews
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 rampstackco/claude-skills --skill evidence-based-reviews
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rampstackco/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rampstack-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 103 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.

agentmods badge for evidence-based-reviews

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for evidence-based-reviews

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 168 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,482 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 $0.00168 $0.02482
Opus 5 $0.00084 $0.01241
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.00496
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00248

Measured 11d ago against content hash d827133c0797, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

evidence-based-reviews 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.

skills/evidence-based-reviews/SKILL.md · 168 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 168 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Evidence-Based Reviews

Produce product reviews and buying guides whose claims match their evidence. The method is evidence synthesis with a disclosed basis, and one rule anchors everything: never claim hands-on time that did not happen.

Most review sites fail this rule quietly. "We tested" appears above content assembled from spec sheets, and readers have learned to smell it. The honest alternative is stronger, not weaker: synthesis of owner experience at scale, verified specifications, and triangulated expert sources is demonstrable original analysis, and disclosing it builds the trust that fabricated testing destroys.


When to use

  • Writing product reviews or buying guides when hands-on access is partial or absent
  • Setting up the review methodology for a new review or affiliate site
  • Adding evidence disclosure to existing review content
  • Auditing review content for claims its evidence cannot support
  • Deciding whether Review or Product schema is honest for a given piece
  • Aligning review content with Google's reviews system and FTC disclosure expectations

When NOT to use

  • General content writing and editing (use content-and-copy; this skill governs the evidence and claims layer of review content specifically)
  • Defining how the brand sounds (use brand-voice)
  • Optimizing the review page itself for search (use seo-onpage)
  • Per-piece editorial briefs (use content-brief-authoring)
  • Instructional how-to content that teaches a procedure or concept to a first-time reader, such as a tutorial or an explainer: a teaching piece of this kind is owned by its writing, its structure, and its search craft, with the evidence discipline riding alongside as a constraint on its claims, so this skill is one input among several rather than the single choice for it

If genuine hands-on testing at scale exists, with instrumentation and protocols, this skill still applies: the tiers do not change, the methodology block simply states tier 4 and the testing protocol becomes the disclosed basis.

Read the full file on GitHub · 168 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 11d ago First seen · 168 lines · 168 tokens per session scan A d827133c0797

Subscribe to this mod's changes

evidence-based-reviews is a skill published in the GitHub repository rampstackco/claude-skills (838 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 168 tokens to every session and 2,482 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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