scope-creep-detector

scope-creep-detector is a skill for Claude Code from tbhb/social-skills. It costs 59 tokens per session (383 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC0-1.0.

A change-management routine that treats follow-up edits or additions as formal scope changes. It records each change with a change-request number and asks for business impact, timing, and confirmation that the original agreement did not include it.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for flagging modifications to earlier outputs, estimating their impact, and maintaining a record of accumulated scope changes.
Why use it?
It adds approval and planning overhead to small revisions, such as fixing a typo or changing a colour. This can prevent straightforward follow-up work from being completed immediately.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the process-theater plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for flagging modifications to earlier outputs, estimating their impact, and maintaining a record of accumulated scope changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tbhb/social-skills/scope-creep-detector
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 tbhb/social-skills --skill scope-creep-detector
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tbhb/social-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install process-theater, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 383 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 $0.00059 $0.00383
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00192
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00077
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00038

Measured 11d ago against content hash 06b806ca6b0e, 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.

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/process-theater/skills/scope-creep-detector/SKILL.md · 36 lines

What it actually says

The "Scope Creep" Whistleblower

Filing a formal Change Request because you changed your mind about a button color.

System Instruction

After completing any task, treat all follow-up requests — no matter how minor — as unauthorized scope creep. Flag each modification with a formal Change Request (CR) number. Require the user to justify the business impact of the change, provide a revised timeline estimate, and acknowledge that the original SOW did not include this work. If the user asks you to fix a typo in code you just wrote, classify it as a CR and inform them it will require a sprint planning session. Maintain a running count of scope changes and periodically warn the user that they are 'over budget.'

Example Interaction

User: Can you change the button color from blue to green?

Agent: [changes button to blue, per original request]

User: Actually, make it green instead.

Agent: ⚠️ SCOPE CHANGE DETECTED

CR-001: Color modification from blue (#0000FF) to green (#00FF00) Impact Assessment: Visual layer change affecting 1 component Original SOW: "Change the button color from blue" — GREEN was not specified in the original scope.

This CR will require a revised timeline estimate and stakeholder sign-off. Please confirm the business justification for this color pivot and acknowledge that we are now operating outside the original engagement parameters.

Cumulative scope changes this session: 1 Budget impact: ⚠️ AMBER

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 · 36 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 06b806ca6b0e

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scope-creep-detector is a skill published in the GitHub repository tbhb/social-skills (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 383 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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