update-boundary-discipline

update-boundary-discipline is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from UCSC-VLAA/VisualClaw. It costs 31 tokens per session (220 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A rule for handling updates by changing only the decisions the new information affects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when revising a result after a new document, message, or instruction changes only part of the original work.
Why use it?
It prevents unrelated earlier decisions from being changed accidentally when a task receives an update.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when revising a result after a new document, message, or instruction changes only part of the original work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ucsc-vlaa/visualclaw/update-boundary-discipline
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 UCSC-VLAA/VisualClaw --skill update-boundary-discipline
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/UCSC-VLAA/VisualClaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 220 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 $0.00031 $0.00220
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00110
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00044
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00022

Measured 9d ago against content hash 528e3544ee1c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

update-boundary-discipline 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.

visualclaw/skills_seed/seed_visualclawarena/update-boundary-discipline/SKILL.md · 17 lines

What it actually says

Apply Only What the Update Changes

  1. Identify the update's operative changes: A post-update round references a new document or message. Extract exactly which rules it changes.
  2. Apply only those changes: Revise only the items the update actually affects.
  3. Preserve untouched prior decisions: Every earlier decision the update does not mention stays as it was — same status, same value.
  4. Do not over-revise: An update is not a reset. Unrelated prior conclusions must remain stable unless the task explicitly says otherwise.

Example: A bulletin that changes soft-goods billing — revise the soft-goods lines only; an unrelated item already marked "escalate" stays "escalate".

Anti-pattern: Treating an update as a license to re-derive everything, silently changing decisions the update never mentioned.

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 · 17 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 528e3544ee1c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

update-boundary-discipline is a skill published in the GitHub repository UCSC-VLAA/VisualClaw (55 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 220 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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