engagement-scoping

engagement-scoping is a skill for Claude Code from synaptiai/synapti-marketplace. It costs 135 tokens per session (2,012 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A scoping workflow that determines which project sources, files, settings, and actions a documentation run may use. It records those limits before the work begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for defining documentation project boundaries, allowed files, delivery settings, and action limits.
Why use it?
It prevents a documentation task from silently reading extra material or changing files outside its agreed scope. This makes the run easier to audit.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: agent in frontmatter.

Part of the dossier plugin — 10 skills, 9 commands, 6 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit It is for defining documentation project boundaries, allowed files, delivery settings, and action limits.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/synaptiai/synapti-marketplace/engagement-scoping
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 synaptiai/synapti-marketplace --skill engagement-scoping
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/synaptiai/synapti-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dossier, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 9 commands, 6 agents, 2 hooks.

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Per session 135 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,012 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 $0.00135 $0.02012
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.01006
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00402
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00201

Measured 8d ago against content hash 3a0a580c4b13, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

engagement-scoping 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 8d 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/dossier/skills/engagement-scoping/SKILL.md · 140 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 140 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Engagement Scoping

Phase 0 of every dossier run. Establishes what this run is, what it may touch, and what it may do — before it reads a single source file.

Iron Law

RESOLVE SCOPE BEFORE READING ANYTHING. The action ceiling and the file set are fixed in Phase 0 and never widen mid-run.

A run that discovers a reason to read one more directory, execute one more command, or write one more file has stopped being auditable. Record the need as an AQ-#### row and finish inside the ceiling you started with.

Resolution order

Every value comes from bin/dossier-resolve-config.sh, never from reading a settings file directly — reading one directly skips four layers of the cascade. See references/config-resolution.md.

OUTPUT_ROOT=$(bin/dossier-resolve-config.sh --default "docs/dossier" dossier.project.outputRoot)
MODE=$(bin/dossier-resolve-config.sh --default "full" dossier.engagement.deliveryMode)
bin/dossier-validate-config.sh || echo "config findings above must be resolved before drafting"

Validate before scoping. A config that fails dossier-validate-config.sh produces a package whose containment guarantees do not hold, and finding that out in Phase 5 wastes the whole run.

The twelve inputs

Input Config key When absent
Project name project.name Blocking in full/targeted. Ask — never infer, because an inferred product name propagates into public documents
Mission project.mission Record U. Derive what evidence supports; never invent intent
Sources project.sources Blocking in full/targeted
Output root project.outputRoot Blocking in every mode
Version or commit project.versionOrCommit auto resolves the current SHA and pins it for the whole run
Due-diligence context engagement.dueDiligenceContext Produce a general technical and product readiness assessment. Never invent transaction-specific acceptance criteria
Stakeholders engagement.stakeholders Ownership is unassigned, which is a true statement; a plausible name is a false one
Constraints engagement.constraints Each constraint that blocks a check becomes a not executed reason, not an unexplained gap
Disclosure policy disclosure.policy Defaults to internal-only — draft the public documents fully, release none
Regulatory context engagement.regulatory Identify candidates; applicability is itself a claim needing evidence
Allowed actions engagement.allowedActions Restrictive defaults. The safe failure is an honestly-labelled unverified claim, not an unauthorized action
Delivery mode engagement.deliveryMode full

Read the full file on GitHub · 140 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. 8d ago First seen · 140 lines · 135 tokens per session scan A 3a0a580c4b13

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engagement-scoping is a skill published in the GitHub repository synaptiai/synapti-marketplace (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 135 tokens to every session and 2,012 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-09-03.

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