keystone-verify

keystone-verify is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tacoda/keystone. It costs 15 tokens per session (320 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checker for project policies stored under `.charter/policies/`. It compares those files with their lockfile and finds project files that override rules marked as strict.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before committing charter changes, after installing or updating policies, or in continuous integration to check policy integrity.
Why use it?
It catches policy changes and conflicts before they cause inconsistent project behaviour or enter a commit. A lockfile is a record used to detect unexpected file changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

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/tacoda/keystone/keystone-verify
Any agent
npx skills add tacoda/keystone --skill keystone-verify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tacoda/keystone

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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agentmods badge for keystone-verify

README.md
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Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 320 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 5.1 $0.00015 $0.00320
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00160
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00064
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00032

Measured 6d ago against content hash 21c7f798ee46, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

keystone-verify 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 6d 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.

.charter/skills/keystone-verify/SKILL.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

keystone:verify — cascade + drift check

Walks every vendored policy under .charter/policies/, compares per-file hashes to the lockfile, and reports project files that shadow strict-locked policy items.

Exits non-zero on cascade violation. Drift alone exits zero but is reported and the affected policy is reset (re-install needed to repopulate).

Run

keystone verify

When to trigger

  • Before committing any charter change — catches accidental shadows of strict policy items.
  • After keystone install or keystone policy update — confirms the install is clean.
  • In CI to gate merges on cascade integrity.

Interpreting output

  • ✓ keystone verify clean — pass.
  • ✗ N strict violation(s) — remove the offending project file(s) or surface the conflict to the policy author.
  • ▸ drift detected — resetting N policies — vendored files diverged from the lockfile; re-run keystone install to restore.
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. 6d ago First seen · 51 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 21c7f798ee46

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keystone-verify is a skill published in the GitHub repository tacoda/keystone (44 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 320 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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