vibe-check

vibe-check is a skill for Claude Code from tslateman/duet. It costs 57 tokens per session (1,291 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A judgment-based checker for AI-generated code that looks for design and maintainability problems beyond syntax or standard lint rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it on the current Git diff or selected files and directories before committing fast-generated code.
Why use it?
It helps spot code that is over-engineered, shaped around a prompt instead of the real problem, or produced without enough thought.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the duet plugin — 25 skills, 6 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it on the current Git diff or selected files and directories before committing fast-generated code.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tslateman/duet/vibe-check
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 tslateman/duet --skill vibe-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tslateman/duet

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install duet, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 25 skills, 6 commands, 1 agent.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,291 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 $0.00057 $0.01291
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00646
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00258
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00129

Measured 8d ago against content hash 5f114aa80ef9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vibe-check 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 8d 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/vibe-check/SKILL.md · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Vibe Check

Overview

"Vibe check?", a way of asking what's the energy like right now?

Static linters catch syntax. Code review catches everything but takes time. Vibe-check sits between: a quick judgment pass that asks whether AI-generated code feels like it was written with thought or just generated on autopilot.

Single-agent, one pass. Runs on the diff by default. Surfaces higher-order problems that require reasoning, the things a thoughtful reviewer notices in the first 30 seconds that no regex can detect.

Input

Default: Git diff (staged if present, unstaged otherwise).

# Check current changes
/vibe-check

# Check specific files or directories
/vibe-check src/auth/

Override: Named files or directories passed as arguments.

Assertion Categories

Each category reads a specific vibe. Findings require AI judgment, if a static linter could catch it, it doesn't belong here.

Category The vibe What it catches
Earned complexity "This feels over-engineered" Abstractions that don't justify themselves, premature generalization, indirection without payoff
Prompt-shaped code "This feels shaped by the prompt, not the problem" Odd boundaries, misnamed concepts, structure that mirrors how the request was worded rather than the domain
Missing skepticism "This feels like nothing can go wrong" Happy-path-only logic, unchallenged assumptions, no failure modes considered, silent swallowing of errors
Cargo-culted patterns "This feels ceremonial" Design patterns applied without justification, boilerplate that adds ceremony without value, framework idioms used out of context
Integration blindness "This feels written in a vacuum" Duplicates existing utilities, contradicts established codebase patterns, ignores conventions visible in surrounding code
Shallow naming "This feels like nobody thought about what it means" Names describe implementation (handleData, processItems) instead of intent, a signal the author didn't reason about the domain
Security surface "This feels like it trusts too much" Auth gaps, unsanitized boundaries, trust assumptions, only the ones requiring judgment, not what semgrep catches

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 lines

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. 8d ago First seen · 119 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 5f114aa80ef9

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vibe-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository tslateman/duet (1 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,291 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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