reality-check

reality-check is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sergei-aronsen/claude-code-toolkit. It costs 42 tokens per session (918 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A post-release verification procedure that tests the deployed website, checks Sentry for new errors, and compares a PostHog conversion funnel with its earlier baseline. A conversion funnel measures how users move through key steps such as signing up and taking their first action.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after shipping or fixing production code to run Playwright end-to-end tests against the live URL, compare recent error rates, and look for changes in user conversion.
Why use it?
It checks whether a released feature actually works for users, since a successful build, CI run, and deployment do not prove the production behavior is correct.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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/sergei-aronsen/claude-code-toolkit/reality-check
Any agent
npx skills add sergei-aronsen/claude-code-toolkit --skill reality-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sergei-aronsen/claude-code-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 918 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 $0.00042 $0.00918
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00459
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00184
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00092

Measured 6d ago against content hash f0b3769cfb23, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reality-check 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.

templates/base/skills/reality-check/SKILL.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reality Check (Post-Ship)

Iron law

NO SHIP IS COMPLETE WITHOUT RUNTIME VERIFICATION AGAINST PRODUCTION.

Code merged + CI green + deploy succeeded ≠ feature works for users. Reality check is the only thing that proves it.

When this skill activates

  • Immediately after /gsd-ship completes
  • When user says: "did it work", "verify deploy", "check prod"
  • 24 hours after ship for delayed regression check
  • After ANY hotfix to production

The procedure

Step 1: Smoke test (within 1 minute of deploy)

Run Playwright e2e against deployed URL, NOT localhost:

PROD_URL=https://yourapp.com npm run test:e2e:prod

Expected: green. If red — rollback immediately, investigate next.

Step 2: Error rate (within 1 hour)

Check Sentry dashboard for last 1 hour vs last 24 hours baseline:

Last 1h errors: N
Last 24h average / hour: M

If N > 2*M  → red flag, investigate
If N > 5*M  → rollback now

Step 3: User behavior (within 6 hours)

Check Posthog (or similar) for conversion rate change on critical funnel:

Pre-ship baseline (avg of last 7 days): 12.3% signup→first-action
Post-ship 6h window: 11.8% (within ±1%)  → OK
Post-ship 6h window: 8.1%  → red flag
Post-ship 6h window: <5%  → rollback

Step 4: 24-hour delayed regression

Some bugs surface after timezone rollover, weekly cron jobs, or batch processes. Check at 24h post-ship:

  • Sentry error count for last 24h (full day cycle)
  • Customer support tickets count
  • Posthog funnel for full day

Tooling

  • Playwright — pre-ship smoke + post-ship runtime smoke
  • Sentry — error monitoring (set up SLO alerts: page on >5× baseline)
  • Posthog — funnel monitoring (alert on >20% conversion drop)
  • Plausible — alternative to Posthog (privacy-first, simpler)

If any of these are NOT installed — see skills/production-observability/SKILL.md first. Reality check requires observability infrastructure.

What to do when red

Step 1 (Playwright fail)  →  Rollback. Investigate logs. Hotfix or revert.
Step 2 (Sentry spike)     →  Triage top error. If user-facing: rollback. If internal: hotfix.
Step 3 (conversion drop)  →  Don't rollback yet. Check session replay. Often UX bug, not crash.
Step 4 (delayed)          →  Same triage as Step 2/3 but with more context.

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 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 · 101 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A f0b3769cfb23

Subscribe to this mod's changes

reality-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository sergei-aronsen/claude-code-toolkit (5 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 918 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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