assess-quality

assess-quality is a skill for Claude Code from urmzd/dotfiles. It costs 120 tokens per session (2,595 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A basic framework for judging software and development practices through five questions: is it readable, easy to start, able to grow without unnecessary bulk, consistent, and intentional? It also considers both developers and coding agents as users.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when onboarding to a project, setting review criteria, assessing a new tool or skill, or deciding whether a design adds value without needless complexity.
Why use it?
It gives teams a shared quality standard when reviewing code, documentation, tools, or project structure. It helps resolve disagreements by tying choices to clarity, consistency, and useful growth.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it when onboarding to a project, setting review criteria, assessing a new tool or skill, or deciding whether a design adds value without needless complexity.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/urmzd/dotfiles/assess-quality
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 urmzd/dotfiles --skill assess-quality
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/urmzd/dotfiles

Made for: Claude Code.

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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Per session 120 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,595 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 $0.00120 $0.02595
Opus 5.5 $0.00048 $0.01038
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00519
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00260

Measured 1mo ago against content hash d038b3d6df28, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

assess-quality 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.

dot_agents/skills/assess-quality/SKILL.md · 208 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 208 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Code Quality

Layering: Foundational why; review-design and write-code build on this. Use this skill when defining the quality bar or arbitrating between principles (review-design) and operational picks (write-code).

The Workshop Principle

Different writers, same pragma.

Every tool, library, and script should feel like it came from the same workshop. The way Microsoft tools feel consistent, the way Google tools share a coherent design language; our code should have that same unity. A developer who has used one of our CLIs should feel at home in any other. An AI agent that has parsed one project's JSON output should know what to expect from the next.

This is not about aesthetics. Consistency reduces cognitive load for both audiences:

  • Developers spend less time learning conventions and more time solving problems
  • AI agents parse structured output, consume skills-as-docs, and navigate codebases via AGENTS.md

Every convention in our skill system (JSON output, color semantics, commit style, file organization) traces back to this principle. If a decision doesn't serve consistency or intentionality, question it.

The Dual Audience

We build for two consumers simultaneously:

Developers read source code, run CLIs, review PRs, and onboard to projects. They need readable code, obvious entry points, and one-command workflows.

AI agents parse JSON output, consume SKILL.md files as executable context, discover projects via llms.txt, and navigate architecture via AGENTS.md. They need structured interfaces, predictable patterns, and machine-readable output.

Every interface decision must answer both: Can a human understand this? Can an agent parse this?

This is why:

  • CLIs emit JSON agents chain it, skills consume it, content persists
  • docs/ organizes project documentation by purpose (guides/, rfcs/, plans/, runbooks/). Skills provide executable agent context alongside
  • llms.txt exists projects become AI-discoverable
  • AGENTS.md mirrors README agents get the same onboarding humans do
  • Commit messages follow Angular parseable by sr for automated releases

Read the full file on GitHub · 208 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. 1mo ago First seen · 208 lines · 120 tokens per session scan A d038b3d6df28

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assess-quality is a skill published in the GitHub repository urmzd/dotfiles (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 120 tokens to every session and 2,595 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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