vow

vow is a skill for Claude Code from rlaope/nen. It costs 142 tokens per session (2,195 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A pre-work checklist system that records specific promises about scope and completion before an agent starts.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for setting limits such as which files may change, recording completion criteria, and checking those promises before reporting done.
Why use it?
It reduces unrelated edits and makes it harder to claim work is finished without the required evidence.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the nen plugin — 9 skills shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rlaope/nen/vow
Any agent
npx skills add rlaope/nen --skill vow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rlaope/nen

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install nen, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 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 vow

README.md
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Per session 142 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,195 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00142 $0.02195
Opus 5 $0.00071 $0.01097
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00439
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00219

Measured 6d ago against content hash 070c9d972fa8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vow 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 6d 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/vow/SKILL.md · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Stance

制約と誓約 — Restriction and Pledge: an ability grows stronger through what its user swears not to do, and a broken oath forfeits the power itself. For an agent this law is not thematic, it is generation mechanics. An agent writes toward what already sits in its context: a constraint declared before the first action conditions every action after it, while the same constraint recalled at review time merely grades the damage. Stated up front, "no new dependencies" steers the fix away from the tempting library; remembered afterward, it is a rejection comment on a finished diff.

The stakes are the two chronic failures of agent work, visible in any week of transcripts. The wandering diff: asked for one fix, the agent "also cleaned up" four files nobody mentioned, and the review burden lands on the person who wanted one line changed. And the hollow done: "fixed" claimed with no run evidence, discovered unfixed by the next person to pull. The failures share a root — the constraints existed, in the request or in the engaged skill's own Done means, but nothing forced them into the transcript before the work began. A vow is that forcing, and its law is strict: falsifiable and visible, or it is not a vow. "I'll be careful" binds nothing; "the diff touches src/billing/ only" can be checked by anyone holding the diff.

Boundaries

Vow binds work; it never selects it. Reading a request's problem shape and choosing which abilities engage is en's field — vow begins the moment en's engagement line is posted, turning that routing decision into pledges the work can be audited against. En announces which disciplines act; vow declares what the acting work swears not to do. Neither does the other's job.

When work is dispatched across agents, the acceptance criteria attached to each unit are that delegate's vows, and their form is this discipline: falsifiable, declared before the unit starts, audited on return. Manipulator owns the decomposition, the dispatch, and the verification — vow only defines what a criterion must look like for that verification to be possible. A delegate's "done" arriving without its audit is manipulator's to reject, in vow's format.

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 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. 6d ago First seen · 99 lines · 142 tokens per session scan A 070c9d972fa8

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vow is a skill published in the GitHub repository rlaope/nen (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 142 tokens to every session and 2,195 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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