verify-scoring-change

verify-scoring-change is a skill for Claude Code from UKGovernmentBEIS/inspect_evals. It costs 95 tokens per session (5,590 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review procedure for changes to scoring code, metrics, or systems that interpret a grader's output. A metric is a rule or number used to measure results, and a grader model is an AI system that evaluates answers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when reviewing a pull request that changes score calculation, answer extraction, verdict parsing, metric denominators, or handling of grader failures.
Why use it?
It establishes whether the reported bug exists, whether the fix removes it, and which reported numbers may change. It requires claims about library behaviour to be checked against the installed version.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it when reviewing a pull request that changes score calculation, answer extraction, verdict parsing, metric denominators, or handling of grader failures.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ukgovernmentbeis/inspect_evals/verify-scoring-change
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 UKGovernmentBEIS/inspect_evals --skill verify-scoring-change
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/UKGovernmentBEIS/inspect_evals

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,590 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 $0.00095 $0.05590
Opus 5.5 $0.00038 $0.02236
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00019 $0.01118
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00559

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 5b9e623a88a3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

verify-scoring-change 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 1mo 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.

.claude/skills/verify-scoring-change/SKILL.md · 305 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 305 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Verify a Scoring Change

A scoring change moves reported numbers. The review has to establish three things: that the bug exists, that the fix removes it, and what else moves. The output is a verdict a maintainer can act on without repeating your work.

The seven questions to answer are the Scoring-Change Gate. The rules behind them are in BEST_PRACTICES.md. Read these four sections first:

  • "Route sample-level failures to the right outcome"
  • "Handle grader failures as instrument failures, not model failures"
  • "Say what a metric does when its denominator is empty"
  • "Dict-valued scores and metric registration"

The receipts rule

Every claim about how inspect_ai behaves must be checked against the installed pin before it goes in the verdict.

  • Find the source with uv run python -c "import inspect_ai, pathlib; print(pathlib.Path(inspect_ai.__file__).parent)".
  • Cite file:line, or run a probe and paste its output.
  • A claim without a receipt is left out.

The same rule applies to the eval. Before judging, read its README changelog, its eval.yaml version, and git log --oneline -- src/inspect_evals/<eval>/<scorer file>. Whether a branch is reachable, whether a zero was a deliberate decision, and who produces the artefact being scored are answered by that history rather than by the diff.

Behaviours that have been cited wrongly from memory

references/framework-receipts.md lists the inspect_ai behaviours that reviewers have got wrong from memory, each with a file:line on the pin it was read on. Open it when a verdict is about to rely on how the framework treats empty inputs, nan, reducers, grader parse misses, redacted reasoning, sandbox exceptions, or mockllm. Line numbers drift between releases, so re-check any row you quote against the current pin.

Setup

  1. Create a worktree on the PR head.

    • git fetch origin pull/<N>/head:pr-<N> && git worktree add .claude/worktrees/pr-<N> pr-<N>
    • Record the head SHA with git rev-parse pr-<N>.

Read the full file on GitHub · 305 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. 1mo ago Changed 5b9e623a88a3
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +198 lines 7b1ae35b6ea2
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 107 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A e64e36c3a1eb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

verify-scoring-change is a skill published in the GitHub repository UKGovernmentBEIS/inspect_evals (706 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 5,590 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-09.

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