checklist-mini

checklist-mini is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tmusser/ai-engineering-skills. It costs 11 tokens per session (269 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checklist for reviewing a mini-spec before turning it into an implementation plan. A mini-spec is a short description of what should be built and how success will be judged.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking SPEC.md and related context, recording findings in CHECKLIST.md, and deciding whether planning can safely proceed.
Why use it?
It catches unclear requirements, missing boundaries, and unmeasurable acceptance criteria before coding begins.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Checking SPEC.md and related context, recording findings in CHECKLIST.md, and deciding whether planning can safely proceed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tmusser/ai-engineering-skills/checklist-mini
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 tmusser/ai-engineering-skills --skill checklist-mini
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tmusser/ai-engineering-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 11 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 269 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 $0.00011 $0.00269
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00134
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00054
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00027

Measured 9d ago against content hash 6061fb911a70, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

checklist-mini 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 9d 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.

skills/checklist-mini/SKILL.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

Checklist Mini

Purpose

Validate a mini-spec before planning.

When to use

Use after mini-spec and before thin-plan, especially when the next step would turn unclear requirements into implementation tasks.

Inputs

  • SPEC.md
  • CONTEXT.md if available
  • Known commands
  • Known constraints
  • Open questions

Workflow

  1. Check that unresolved ambiguity is marked with [NEEDS CLARIFICATION: ...].
  2. Check that acceptance criteria are observable.
  3. Check that success criteria are measurable.
  4. Check that non-goals are explicit.
  5. Check that a verification demo exists.
  6. Check that a scope boundary can be defined.
  7. Check that speculative features are absent.
  8. Update CHECKLIST.md with pass, fail, or needs-clarification notes.

Outputs

  • CHECKLIST.md
  • Spec readiness judgment
  • Blocking clarification notes
  • Safe next step

Stop conditions

  • The mini-spec is ready for thin planning.
  • A blocking ambiguity must be clarified before planning.

Anti-patterns

  • Planning from vague acceptance criteria.
  • Treating missing non-goals as harmless.
  • Letting speculative features enter the first implementation plan.
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. 9d ago First seen · 52 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A 6061fb911a70

Subscribe to this mod's changes

checklist-mini is a skill published in the GitHub repository tmusser/ai-engineering-skills (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 269 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 2026-08-31.

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