crucible-meta-governance

crucible-meta-governance is a skill for Claude Code from terrylica/cc-skills. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,803 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A collection of methods for making decisions about an investigation or project, such as whether to continue, change direction, narrow the scope, or release the result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when deciding whether to persist with an approach, pivot to a new one, stop an effort, or hold a release.
Why use it?
It helps turn unclear or stalled work into explicit decisions based on constraints and evidence.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the crucible plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when deciding whether to persist with an approach, pivot to a new one, stop an effort, or hold a release.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/terrylica/cc-skills/c-meta-governance
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 terrylica/cc-skills --skill c-meta-governance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/terrylica/cc-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install crucible, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,803 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium analysis-evasion · line 1
    Suspicious Unicode normalization or mixed-script content
    Fix: Review the flagged content for security risks. Ensure no credentials, secrets, or sensitive data are exposed.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00035 $0.01803
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00901
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00361
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00180

Measured 12d ago against content hash 51aee0df9a16, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

crucible-meta-governance 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/crucible/skills/c-meta-governance/SKILL.md · 169 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 169 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Meta-governance — 6 decision-layer patterns

Self-Evolving Skill: If any pattern here misled decisions, update the section AND append to references/evolution-log.md. Don't defer.

These patterns are meta-level — they're about the investigation itself, not its content. Invoke when a decision must be made: pivot vs persist, kill vs narrow, ship vs hold.


1. Physical-constraint-first pivot

When brute force yields null, extract the execution constraint and redesign the hypothesis class to fit it. Don't iterate on a hypothesis that ignores reality.

Session example: 17 directional-signal null campaigns → user pivoted:

"What's the best strategy for a highly random walk market?" "I can only trade on a traditional MT5 broker that allows hedging positions."

From this came the synthetic straddle (BUY_STOP + SELL_STOP pending orders, OCO). Constraint-driven design unlocked the strategy class. The math (diffusive displacement in random walks: E[|ΔS|] > 0) was always available; what was missing was honoring the execution venue.

Ask yourself:

  • What execution venue is the user actually on?
  • What types of orders are possible?
  • What's the realistic slippage / commission / spread?
  • What position-sizing constraints apply?

If the hypothesis doesn't survive these questions, pivot the hypothesis, not the statistics.


2. Incremental artifact promotion (/tmp → repo early)

Move findings from /tmp/ to the persistent repo (audits/YYYY-MM-DD-slug/) as soon as a result survives two independent tests, not "when done".

Session anti-pattern: reproducers written in /tmp/ during exploration, causing reproducibility loss on reboot. The moment a result passed Gate C (OOS) it should have been promoted — not after the 4-gate suite completed.

Promotion triggers (at least one required):

  • Result passed shuffled-null z > 3 AND hasn't been contradicted
  • An agent synthesized a verdict that supersedes an earlier one
  • A reproducer script ran successfully twice

Read the full file on GitHub · 169 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 169 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 51aee0df9a16

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crucible-meta-governance is a skill published in the GitHub repository terrylica/cc-skills (73 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,803 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 2026-08-30.

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