build-evaluate

build-evaluate is a skill for Claude Code from shawnclybor/clybor-claude-tooling. It costs 166 tokens per session (3,238 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A build-checking workflow that compares a completed build with the product requirements document (PRD), its main example case, and its success criteria. It also uses fresh reviewers and investigates the likely root cause when checks fail.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for acceptance checks, anchor-case validation, independent review, and five-whys investigation of failed results.
Why use it?
It helps catch unfinished work, scope drift, and differences from the requested behavior before completion.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python3 .claude/skills/build-estimate/estimate.py calibrate .claude/PRPs/{slug}/estimate/actuals-{YYYY-MM-DD}.json.

Good fit It is for acceptance checks, anchor-case validation, independent review, and five-whys investigation of failed results.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shawnclybor/clybor-claude-tooling
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shawnclybor/clybor-claude-tooling/build-evaluate

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 166 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,238 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00166 $0.03238
Opus 5.5 $0.00066 $0.01295
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00033 $0.00648
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00324

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 41ee5b7ae963, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

build-evaluate 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 1mo 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/build-evaluate/SKILL.md · 250 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 250 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Build Evaluate

Verify a build against its own definition of "done."

Phase 1: PARSE + PARALLEL LOAD

Batch in one message — independent reads:

  • Read .claude/PRPs/{slug}/prd.md, plan.md, state.json
  • Read .claude/PRPs/_profiles/{type}.md (from PRD frontmatter)
  • Glob .claude/PRPs/*/evaluate.md — for insight-promotion later, find prior similar builds for pattern matching

Verify:

  • state.json state is success or stopped (not running) — refuse to evaluate a build still iterating
  • PRD has a concrete anchor case
  • Plan has an acceptance test defined

If anchor case or acceptance test is missing: refuse and tell the user to update the PRD/plan first.

Phase 2: LOAD PROFILE

The profile may define:

  • A canonical acceptance-test invocation (e.g., python3 scripts/validate-plugin.py path/to/plugin)
  • A fixture set the build must run against
  • A specific reviewer agent to run as a final cold-read pass

Phase 3+4: RUN ACCEPTANCE TEST + ANCHOR CASE

⚠ SERIAL BY DEFAULT. Parallelize only where the write roots are certified disjoint. "Independent" does not mean "measures a different thing" — it means no two concurrently-running drivers WRITE the same tree. A driver that invokes a generator and then reads back what it generated is NOT independent of another driver doing the same: they interleave, and each asserts against a tree the other is rewriting. The run still prints PASS/FAIL, so the damage is invisible — the result is UNMEASURED, not failed, and unmeasured results that look green are how a build ships on evidence it never had.

Before launching anything, resolve each driver the plan names to (a) the generator it invokes and (b) the root that generator writes. Drivers sharing a root run ONE AT A TIME, in the order the plan lists them. Only drivers over disjoint fixtures run together, in one message.

  • Acceptance test from the plan — serial across drivers sharing a write root
  • Anchor case check (run the artifact against the PRD's one concrete example, compare output to expected outcome)

Read the full file on GitHub · 250 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. 1mo ago Changed · +27 lines · +8 tokens per session 41ee5b7ae963
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 223 lines · 158 tokens per session scan A 8d3c76ccd8d1

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build-evaluate is a skill published in the GitHub repository shawnclybor/clybor-claude-tooling (6 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 166 tokens to every session and 3,238 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-09-05.