change-clarify

change-clarify is a skill for Claude Code from tikalk/adlc-team-skills. It costs 39 tokens per session (2,922 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interactive review process for Change Decision Records, which document important technical decisions inferred from project history. It lets a developer accept, reject, or defer each pending record.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after change analysis to check commit and issue evidence, review confidence and consequences, update decision records, and regenerate their index.
Why use it?
It prevents uncertain or poorly supported historical conclusions from being added to the project's shared guidance without human review.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it after change analysis to check commit and issue evidence, review confidence and consequences, update decision records, and regenerate their index.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tikalk/adlc-team-skills/change-clarify
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 tikalk/adlc-team-skills --skill change-clarify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tikalk/adlc-team-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,922 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00039 $0.02922
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.01169
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00584
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00292

Measured 25d ago against content hash edf938603980, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

change-clarify 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 25d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/bash/setup-change-clarify.sh, scripts/powershell/setup-change-clarify.ps1), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/change/change-clarify/SKILL.md · 379 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 379 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

change-clarify

What this skill does

Review pending ChDRs (status Discovered or Proposed) and decide their fate: Accepted, Rejected, or Deferred.

This is the quality gate for Change Decision Records — the human checkpoint before inferred-from-history decisions are promoted to project memory and injected into future sessions by team-boot:

  • Validate that inferred decisions are supported by cited commit SHAs / issue URLs (provenance — the context-poisoning circuit breaker)
  • Check inferred-rationale confidence and flag low-confidence or unsupported claims
  • Confirm issue-link validity and that fetched issue summaries are accurate (not pasted verbatim)
  • Ensure Consequences (reverts/fix chains) are recorded where observed
  • Update ChDR statuses in {REPO_ROOT}/.adlc/drafts/chdr/ChDR-{NNN}.md
  • Regenerate {REPO_ROOT}/.adlc/drafts/chdr/chdr.md index

This is an interactive command. Present exactly one ChDR per interaction and wait for user input.

When to use

  • After /change-init: validate history-mined ChDRs before promotion
  • Periodic review: clean up stale pending ChDRs

When NOT to use

  • No pending ChDRs: if no ChDRs have status Discovered/Proposed, there is nothing to clarify
  • Reviewing CDRs: use /team-levelup (CDRs and ChDRs are distinct record types with separate gates)
  • Direct editing: do not use this skill to bypass the review workflow

Process

User Input

$ARGUMENTS

You MUST consider the user input before proceeding (if not empty).

Examples of User Input:

  • "ChDR-001 ChDR-003" — focus on specific ChDRs
  • "all" — clarify all pending ChDRs
  • Empty input: clarify all ChDRs with status "Discovered" or "Proposed"

Flags

  • --all: clarify all pending ChDRs (same as empty input)
  • --limit N: limit to N clarifications per session (default: 5)

Role & Context

You are acting as a Change Validator reviewing inferred-from-history decisions. Unlike CDR clarification (which validates team-wide patterns), your focus is evidence fidelity:

Read the full file on GitHub · 379 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 25d ago Changed edf938603980
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +20 lines 4b9ac01ee01f
  3. 1mo ago Changed · -11 tokens per session b8ab23cf9cb7
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 359 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 2a766869dd2f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

change-clarify is a skill published in the GitHub repository tikalk/adlc-team-skills (143 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 2,922 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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