RTLDesignSherpa: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/rds-dv-randomization/SKILL.md

rds-dv-randomization is a skill for Claude Code from sean-galloway/RTLDesignSherpa. It costs 69 tokens per session (568 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A testing guide for randomizing delays and traffic in RDS-DV, a hardware-design verification environment. It explains which delay profiles and configuration layers to use.

In plain words
What is it for?
Choosing delay profiles, shaping stimulus timing, and testing arbiters, schedulers, and request pickers.
Why use it?
It helps create varied timing conditions without mistaking random traffic for proof that an arbiter or scheduler is fair.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is sean-galloway/RTLDesignSherpa's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on RTLDesignSherpa itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything RTLDesignSherpa configures →

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to sean-galloway/RTLDesignSherpa. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sean-galloway/RTLDesignSherpa/main/.claude/skills/rds-dv-randomization/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sean-galloway/RTLDesignSherpa

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 568 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 $0.00069 $0.00568
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00284
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00114
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00057

Measured 9d ago against content hash 0ac9b44d125c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rds-dv-randomization 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 9d 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.

.claude/skills/rds-dv-randomization/SKILL.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

rds-dv-randomization

READ FIRST: vault/handbook/INDEX.md (the handbook is the repo's memory; this skill is the signpost). Canonical: vault/handbook/dv/randomization.md.

ONE OF THREE ORTHOGONAL AXES (see rds-dv-axes): BFM = who drives (rds-dv-bfms); SEQUENCE = what traffic (rds-dv-axes); RANDOMIZATION = what timing. Authoritative docs: /docs/components/shared/components_shared_flex_config_gen.md and per-family components__randomization.md (axi4 has one).

Three layers, pick by what you configure: FlexConfigGen (named delay profiles - start here), FlexRandomizer (the engine, for constraint shapes no profile expresses), RandomizationConfig (per-field packet modes, not delays).

List profiles instead of guessing: from CocoTBFramework.components.shared.flex_config_gen import DEFAULT_PROFILES 19 exist. backtoback = zero delay = full saturation. Others worth knowing: fast, constrained (general default), bursty, stress, slow, heavy_pause, chaotic.

RANDOM TRAFFIC DOES NOT PROVE FAIRNESS. Random profiles leave gaps, so a picker is never cornered and the request pattern decides who is served. A real round-robin arbiter that starved 2 of 4 clients passed its randomized fairness phase. For any arbiter/scheduler/picker: saturate deliberately, assert on PER-CLIENT outcomes (a Jain index > 0.3 on 4 clients passes with two starved), and mutation-check the assertion.

Two framework gaps recorded in the note: ArbiterMaster has its own private profiles with no saturating option (use force_client_request), and ArbiterCompliance.analyze_round_robin_compliance() is a stub returning rr_efficiency: 1.0 unconditionally.

The handbook root is vault/handbook/INDEX.md - design/, dv/, fpga/, authoring/ areas, atomic notes, wikilinked. When you learn a durable lesson in this domain, ADD IT TO THE HANDBOOK NOTE, not to this skill.

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. 9d ago First seen · 42 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 0ac9b44d125c

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rds-dv-randomization is a skill published in the GitHub repository sean-galloway/RTLDesignSherpa (23 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 568 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.