ai-surface-discipline

ai-surface-discipline is a skill for Claude Code from randommonicle/claude-skills. It costs 95 tokens per session (2,212 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Rules for safely sending data to a large language model (LLM), including limiting input, controlling output, and requiring human review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building model calls for summaries, comments, automatic issue resolution, spending suggestions, or classification.
Why use it?
It reduces unnecessary data exposure and prevents model-generated results from being accepted without a person checking them.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the ash plugin — 43 skills, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when building model calls for summaries, comments, automatic issue resolution, spending suggestions, or classification.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/randommonicle/claude-skills/ai-surface-discipline
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 randommonicle/claude-skills --skill ai-surface-discipline
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/randommonicle/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ash, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 43 skills, 3 hooks.

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Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,212 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 $0.00095 $0.02212
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01106
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00442
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00221

Measured 11d ago against content hash 3932c1d2010d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-surface-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 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.

ai-surface-discipline/SKILL.md · 127 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 127 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI-surface discipline

Every surface that sends data to an LLM inherits the same discipline before it ships. Three pillars (input minimisation, output discipline, human-in-the-loop gate) plus a credential and retention posture. This is a regulatory requirement, not a style preference: the surfaces touch leaseholder personal data and service-charge figures, which sit under UK GDPR, RICS client-confidentiality duties, and LTA 1985 accuracy obligations.

When this applies

This skill fires when building or editing any path that sends data to a model:

  • Edge Functions that call an LLM provider
  • Draft-commentary, summary, or narrative generators (variance, LPE, FME, year-end)
  • Auto-resolvers and suggestion engines, including the reconciliation cash-allocation surface
  • Classification, extraction, or matching calls
  • Any new AI-assist feature, or any change to an existing one that alters what is sent or how output is used

It does not fire on read-only analytics or queries that never leave the database, or on features that process data entirely in-house with no model call.

Pillar 1: input minimisation

Defence starts at the boundary. The model receives the least data that does the job.

  • Hardcoded never-send allowlist. Only named, reviewed fields cross the boundary. The allowlist lives in code, not config, so a data change cannot widen it silently. Default deny: a field not on the allowlist does not leave.
  • Redact then restore. Where free text must be sent, redact personal identifiers before the call and restore the tokens in the response, so the user still gets readable output without the PII ever leaving the boundary.
  • No PII passthrough. Leaseholder names, contact details, and account identifiers are not sent unless the allowlist names them and the lawful basis is recorded.
  • Minimise by Article 5(1)(c). Data minimisation is a UK GDPR principle, not a nicety. If a field is not needed for the task, it is not sent.
  • Guard against prompt injection. Free-text fields (dispute notes, maintenance descriptions, anything a leaseholder or third party can write) are data, not instructions. Do not concatenate user-supplied text into an instruction-bearing position, and sanitise it before it reaches the prompt, so a crafted input cannot redirect the model or pull allowlisted data into the response.

Read the full file on GitHub · 127 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 · 127 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 3932c1d2010d

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ai-surface-discipline is a skill published in the GitHub repository randommonicle/claude-skills (23 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 2,212 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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