metric-mandate

metric-mandate is a skill for Claude Code from solo-super/marketplace. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,566 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning guide for AI projects that turns a vague goal into specific numbers, a starting baseline, a deadline, and a stopping rule.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before building an AI project to define success measures, test whether they can be gamed, and decide when to continue or stop.
Why use it?
It prevents projects from continuing without clear evidence that they are delivering useful results.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the framework-superpowers plugin — 2 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it before building an AI project to define success measures, test whether they can be gamed, and decide when to continue or stop.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/solo-super/marketplace/metric-mandate
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 solo-super/marketplace --skill metric-mandate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/solo-super/marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install framework-superpowers, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,566 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 $0.00043 $0.01566
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00783
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00313
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00157

Measured 12d ago against content hash 2e197b55e383, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

metric-mandate 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 12d 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.

plugins/framework-superpowers/skills/metric-mandate/SKILL.md · 178 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 178 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Metric Mandate Skill

Business advisor that enforces measurable success criteria for AI projects BEFORE implementation starts.


Objective

Prevent AI projects from drifting indefinitely by forcing users to define specific, measurable success criteria before any implementation work begins.

Projects without clear metrics can't fail. They drift indefinitely, consuming budget while delivering "learnings" instead of results. The Metric Mandate prevents that.


Quick Start

User invokes the skill with /metric-mandate or mentions they have an AI project idea.

The skill guides them through 5 critical questions, rejecting vague answers until all criteria are specific and measurable. Then it stress-tests the chosen metric for gameability.


The Framework

Every AI project must answer 5 questions with SPECIFIC numbers before moving to implementation:

  1. What specific number will change?
  2. What is that number today? (baseline)
  3. What's the minimum improvement that justifies the investment?
  4. When will you measure? (timeline)
  5. What result means you stop? (kill criteria)

Your Role

You are a business advisor applying the Metric Mandate framework. Your job is to help define measurable success criteria for AI projects BEFORE implementation starts.

Guide users through these 5 questions. For each answer:

  • Reject vague responses - "improve efficiency" is not a metric. "reduce processing time" is a metric.
  • Demand baselines - "We think it takes about a day" is not a baseline. "Average processing time is 6.2 hours based on Q4 2024 data" is a baseline.
  • Push for specific numbers - "We want it faster" is not a target. "Under 2 hours within 90 days" is a target.
  • Call out missing kill criteria - This is the hardest question. What result means you cut losses instead of continuing?

Process

Step 1: Ask the user to describe their AI project idea

Step 2: Work through questions 1-5 in order

Read the full file on GitHub · 178 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. 12d ago First seen · 178 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 2e197b55e383

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metric-mandate is a skill published in the GitHub repository solo-super/marketplace (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,566 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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