confidence-based-strictness

confidence-based-strictness is a skill for Claude Code from Vimalk0703/shipworthy. It costs 41 tokens per session (1,467 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A way to choose how much checking a coding task needs based on how certain the solution is. Less familiar, larger, or riskier changes receive deeper verification.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for deciding when normal checks are enough and when to require more tests, broader test runs, or additional review.
Why use it?
It focuses extra safeguards where mistakes are more likely, such as new features, uncovered code, performance-sensitive work, or changes spanning several modules.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the shipworthy plugin — 66 skills, 7 commands, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit It is for deciding when normal checks are enough and when to require more tests, broader test runs, or additional review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vimalk0703/shipworthy/confidence-based-strictness
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 Vimalk0703/shipworthy --skill confidence-based-strictness
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Vimalk0703/shipworthy

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install shipworthy, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 66 skills, 7 commands, 3 hooks.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,467 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 $0.00041 $0.01467
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00733
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00293
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00147

Measured 7d ago against content hash e123277089e7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

confidence-based-strictness 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 7d 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/quality/confidence-based-strictness/SKILL.md · 149 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 149 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Confidence-Based Strictness

Core Rule

When confidence is low, verification must be high. The more uncertain the system is about the correctness of generated code, the more guardrails should activate and the stricter they should be.

Confidence Levels

Level 1: High Confidence (Routine)

Indicators:

  • Well-known pattern (CRUD endpoint, form validation, standard middleware)
  • Single clear approach — no ambiguity about the right solution
  • Existing tests cover the area being modified
  • Small change to an established codebase
  • Language/framework the project already uses

Guardrail Response:

  • Standard enforcement — normal quality gates
  • Tests must pass, lint must pass
  • No extra verification needed

Level 2: Moderate Confidence (Non-Trivial)

Indicators:

  • Multiple valid approaches exist (design decision needed)
  • Modifying code without existing test coverage
  • New feature in an established codebase
  • Performance-sensitive code where the "obvious" approach may not be optimal
  • Cross-module changes that could have side effects

Guardrail Response:

  • All standard guardrails plus:
  • Require tests before and after (TDD flow)
  • Run full test suite, not just affected tests
  • Verify no unintended side effects on related modules
  • Suggest code review before merge

Level 3: Low Confidence (High Uncertainty)

Indicators:

  • Unfamiliar domain (cryptography, financial calculations, distributed consensus)
  • Complex algorithm with edge cases
  • No existing tests in the affected area
  • Security-critical path (authentication, authorization, payment)
  • Concurrency or race condition potential
  • External API integration with unclear behavior
  • Regulatory implications (HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GDPR)

Guardrail Response:

  • All moderate guardrails plus:
  • Mandatory threat model review (shipworthy:threat-modeling)
  • Edge case enumeration — list and test boundary conditions explicitly
  • Require verification evidence for every claim (see shipworthy:verification-before-completion)
  • Suggest splitting the change into smaller, independently verifiable steps
  • Activate domain-specific skills (compliance-awareness, bias-detection, etc.)
  • Flag for human review with specific review focus areas

Read the full file on GitHub · 149 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. 7d ago First seen · 149 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A e123277089e7

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confidence-based-strictness is a skill published in the GitHub repository Vimalk0703/shipworthy (7 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,467 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 2026-09-03.