scope-creep-detector

scope-creep-detector is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Shubhamsaboo/awesome-llm-apps. It costs 98 tokens per session (1,195 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A local review tool that compares a Git change with its stated purpose and points out signs that the change has grown too broad.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before opening a pull request or when deciding whether a mixed change should be split, kept together, or explained.
Why use it?
It helps reviewers spot unrelated files, dependency changes, configuration edits, large code sections, or other work hidden inside a small fix.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it before opening a pull request or when deciding whether a mixed change should be split, kept together, or explained.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shubhamsaboo/awesome-llm-apps/scope-creep-detector
About the project

Awesome LLM Apps is a collection of open-source applications built around large language models, including AI agents and retrieval-augmented generation apps. It is intended for developers who want to study, run, or adapt these applications and related agent skills.

Shubhamsaboo/awesome-llm-apps · 136,904 stars · on GitHub · theunwindai.com

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 Shubhamsaboo/awesome-llm-apps --skill scope-creep-detector
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Shubhamsaboo/awesome-llm-apps

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,195 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
  • Socket pass 22 Jul 2026
  • Snyk warn 22 Jul 2026
  • 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 $0.00098 $0.01195
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.00598
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00239
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00120

Measured 11d ago against content hash a21a28ce5969, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scope-creep-detector 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/scope_creep.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

agent_skills/scope-creep-detector/SKILL.md · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scope Creep Detector

A one-line fix should not require a reviewer to reverse-engineer fourteen files across three subsystems. This skill compares a git diff with its stated intent, surfaces scope signals, and turns them into keep, split, or justify decisions.

Everything runs locally. The script makes no network calls and does not change the working tree, index, commits, or branches.

When to use

  • Before opening a pull request whose diff may have grown beyond its intent
  • When a bug fix touches unexpected files or subsystems
  • When the user asks whether staged changes are too broad
  • When a diff includes dependency, public API, config, CI, or build changes
  • When the user wants a concrete split plan for a mixed change

When not to use

  • Formatting code, running a linter, or writing a commit message
  • Reviewing correctness, security, or test quality inside an agreed scope
  • Measuring historical project growth across many commits
  • Editing or reverting files without the user's approval

Establish the intent

Use the user's one-line intent when available. Keep it concrete, such as fix null dereference in parser or add retry limit to webhook delivery.

If no intent was given, the script falls back to the current branch name. If that name is generic, detached, or unrelated to the work, ask for one line of intent before treating relatedness as meaningful.

Run the classifier

Run from this skill directory and point --repo at the target repository.

Working tree diff:

python3 scripts/scope_creep.py --repo /path/to/repo \
  --intent "fix null dereference in parser" --json

Staged diff:

python3 scripts/scope_creep.py --repo /path/to/repo --staged \
  --intent "fix null dereference in parser" --json

Branch diff against a merge base:

python3 scripts/scope_creep.py --repo /path/to/repo --base main \
  --intent "fix null dereference in parser" --json

Saved diff or stdin:

python3 scripts/scope_creep.py --diff change.diff --intent "parser fix" --json
git diff --staged | python3 scripts/scope_creep.py --diff - \
  --intent "parser fix" --json

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 137 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A a21a28ce5969

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scope-creep-detector is a skill published in the GitHub repository Shubhamsaboo/awesome-llm-apps (136,904 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 1,195 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.

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