is-is-not-scoping

is-is-not-scoping is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from RBraga01/Quality-Engineering-Skills. It costs 67 tokens per session (1,793 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A fact-based way to define the exact boundaries of a quality problem by comparing what is happening with what is not happening. It covers five questions: what, which, where, when, and how many.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write the problem description in an 8D investigation, scope a corrective-action case, or eliminate unsupported hypotheses using measured facts.
Why use it?
It narrows the investigation and helps rule out explanations that do not match the observed pattern, especially when a defect is intermittent or limited to a batch or location.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to write the problem description in an 8D investigation, scope a corrective-action case, or eliminate unsupported hypotheses using measured facts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rbraga01/quality-engineering-skills/is-is-not-scoping
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 RBraga01/Quality-Engineering-Skills --skill is-is-not-scoping
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RBraga01/Quality-Engineering-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,793 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 $0.00067 $0.01793
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00897
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00359
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00179

Measured 11d ago against content hash 1614fe316a59, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

is-is-not-scoping 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/problem-solving/is-is-not-scoping/SKILL.md · 173 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 173 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Is/Is-Not Problem Scoping

When to use

Use Is/Is-Not at the start of any quality investigation to precisely define what the problem IS and what it IS NOT. This scoping prevents wasted investigation effort and immediately eliminates hypotheses that cannot explain the observed IS/IS-NOT pattern.

Most effective in 8D D2 (problem description), CAPA scoping, and any situation where the defect is intermittent, batch-specific, or location-specific.

Critical rule — facts only

The IS column contains only documented, measured facts. Hypotheses, assumptions, and opinions belong in the hypothesis list, not in the matrix. If a cell contains an assumption rather than a fact, the entire analysis is compromised.

If data is not yet available: mark the cell as "Unknown — to be investigated" and identify what investigation is needed before proceeding.

Required Is/Is-Not Checklist

☐ All five dimensions completed — What, Which, Where, When, How many — or marked "Unknown — to be investigated" ☐ IS column contains only documented facts and measured values — no assumptions, no hypotheses ☐ IS NOT column completed for each dimension — this is where hypotheses get eliminated; do not leave blank ☐ Vague IS statements converted to specific facts with numbers (batch, quantity, percentage) ☐ At least three hypotheses generated and tested against the full matrix ☐ Eliminated hypotheses documented with the specific IS/IS-NOT entry that contradicts them ☐ Is/Is-Not output referenced in the NCR problem description and carried forward to Fishbone or 5-Why


The Is/Is-Not Matrix

Work through each dimension. For each: what DO you observe? What do you specifically NOT observe?

What

IS IS NOT
The specific defect observed (with measurement if applicable) Similar defects that are NOT present
The affected feature, characteristic, or function Features that are fine

Example: "IS: Connector pin bent at 15° (pin 3 only). IS NOT: Other pins bent, housing cracked, electrical failure."

Read the full file on GitHub · 173 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 173 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 1614fe316a59

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is-is-not-scoping is a skill published in the GitHub repository RBraga01/Quality-Engineering-Skills (28 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 1,793 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.