evaluate

A baseline review skill that creates a list of concerns and rates each one by its likelihood and potential impact.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after setup to assess a target document against a defined critical persona and produce a concern catalogue.
Why use it?
It turns a general critical review into a ranked scorecard showing which problems deserve attention first.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/stellarshenson/claude-code-plugins/evaluate
Any agent
npx skills add stellarshenson/claude-code-plugins --skill evaluate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stellarshenson/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,436 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 $0.00040 $0.01436
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00718
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00287
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00144

Measured 2d ago against content hash 47e3223d0496, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 2d 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/devils-advocate/skills/evaluate/SKILL.md · 162 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 162 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Devil's Advocate - Evaluate (Baseline)

Generate concern catalogue and scorecard. Run after setup.

Task Tracking

MANDATORY: Use TaskCreate/TaskUpdate per step (read context, generate catalogue, score, create v01). Mark in_progress/completed.

Prerequisites: devils_advocate.md and fact_repository.md must exist. Otherwise: tell user to run /devils-advocate:setup.

Step 1: Read context

Read target document, devils_advocate.md, fact_repository.md in full.

Step 2: Generate concern catalogue

Fibonacci scale (1, 2, 3, 5, 8):

  • Likelihood (1-8): chance persona raises it
  • Impact (1-8): damage if unaddressed
  • Risk = Likelihood x Impact (1-64)

Risk adjustment: review full set. Adjust where interactions amplify. Document: Risk: N (adjusted from L x I = M, reason: ...).

Concern template:

### N. "[Concern as the devil would phrase it]"

**Likelihood: N** | **Impact: N** | **Risk: N**

**Their take**: what devil thinks. Write as them.

**Reality**: factual counter. Reference fact_repository.md.

**Response**: how to address it.

Categories (persona-weighted):

  • Accuracy gaps, trust signals, cognitive load, omissions
  • Forward-looking, legal/contractual, professional responsibility

No negative risk scores. Strengths go in "Reality" and "Response".

Step 3: Scorecard

Score 0-100% per concern.

Score Devil's reaction
95-100% "I have no issue"
80-94% "Fine, but I noticed..."
60-79% "Doesn't fully answer"
40-59% "This is a problem"
20-39% "You're hiding something"
0-19% "Makes it worse"

Scorecard format (append to devils_advocate.md):

## Scorecard v01 ([document name] as-is)

| # | Concern | Risk | Score | Residual | Reasoning |
|---|---------|------|-------|----------|-----------|
| 1 | [name] | 25 | 85% | 3.75 | [specific text reference + quality assessment] |
  • Residual = risk x (1 - score)
  • Document score = sum of residuals (minimise)
  • Reasoning MUST quote specific text

Read the full file on GitHub · 162 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. 2d ago First seen · 162 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 47e3223d0496

Subscribe to this mod's changes

evaluate is a skill published in the GitHub repository stellarshenson/claude-code-plugins (3 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,436 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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