What is rigor-baseline-reduce?

An interactive queue for clearing merge-worthy Rigor issues before a release cut. A release cut is the process of preparing a particular software version, but this workflow does not create the release itself.

Use it to rank issues, work through them one at a time, skip or stop items, and coordinate implementation agents before release preparation.

It keeps pre-release cleanup separate from release actions and prevents accidental version, changelog, or release-branch changes.

rigor-baseline-reduce — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by rigortype

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 rigortype/rigor --skill rigor-baseline-reduce

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rigortype/rigor

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,363 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00058	$0.01363
Opus 5.5	$0.00023	$0.00545
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00012	$0.00273
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00136

Measured 11d ago against content hash 76410b098b45, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rigor-baseline-reduce 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/rigor-baseline-reduce/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Rigor Baseline Reduce

Opportunistic, session-bounded quality improvement for a project that already has a .rigor-baseline.yml. Each session picks a rule, walks its sites, and lands a mix of fixes, intentional suppressions, and issue reports — then refreshes the baseline so the gains stick.

This skill is for users improving their own project. It uses the published rigor executable on PATH and references only public CLI flags and config keys.

First: load the version-current copy

The step-by-step commands live in this skill's references/ files, and their exact flags drift between Rigor releases — so follow the copy that ships with the installed Rigor rather than any vendored or frozen copy of this file. Get the complete current procedure in one call:

rigor skill --full rigor-baseline-reduce   # this body + all its references/, inline

If you already loaded this skill via rigor skill you have the current copy — just proceed (read any references/NN-*.md from the directory the header names). If rigor is not on PATH, this task needs it: run rigor-next-steps to install Rigor first, then come back.

Phase 0 — When to use this skill

Precondition: the project is in acknowledge mode. This skill operates on a .rigor-baseline.yml that .rigor.yml / .rigor.dist.yml declares via baseline:. A strict-mode project (severity_profile: strict, no baseline) has nothing for this skill to reduce — its diagnostics are already all live; fix them as ordinary rigor check output. If no baseline exists, the user wants rigor-project-init, not this skill.

Do NOT trigger for:

First-time onboarding — no .rigor.yml yet → rigor-project-init.
Writing a plugin for the project's DSL → rigor-plugin-author.

What baseline reduction is

.rigor-baseline.yml records (file, rule, count) buckets — the diagnostics that existed when the project adopted Rigor. They are suppressed while their count holds. Reduction means: go through them deliberately, decide what each one really is, and shrink the file. Three outcomes per site:

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 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.

11d ago First seen · 115 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 76410b098b45

Subscribe to this mod's changes

rigor-baseline-reduce is a skill published in the GitHub repository rigortype/rigor (107 stars, last pushed today), licensed MPL-2.0. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 1,363 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-26.

Git and workflow Project management Releases

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