anti-fabrication

anti-fabrication is a skill for Claude Code from vinnie357/claude-skills. It costs 44 tokens per session (2,175 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for checking claims against actual evidence and avoiding unsupported statements about code, systems, or capabilities.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during codebase analysis, system reviews, test reporting, and other work that makes factual claims.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of presenting guesses as facts when reviewing repositories or reporting results.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the core plugin — 14 skills, 5 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it during codebase analysis, system reviews, test reporting, and other work that makes factual claims.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vinnie357/claude-skills/anti-fabrication
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 vinnie357/claude-skills --skill anti-fabrication
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vinnie357/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 5 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook.

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.

agentmods badge for anti-fabrication

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for anti-fabrication

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,175 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 16
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 69
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 70
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00044 $0.02175
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.01087
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00435
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00217

Measured 12d ago against content hash 0cb369450ba6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

anti-fabrication 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 12d 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.

plugins/core/skills/anti-fabrication/SKILL.md · 268 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 268 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Anti-Fabrication

Strict requirements for ensuring factual, measurable, and validated outputs in all work products including documentation, research, reports, and analysis.

Core Principles

Evidence-Based Outputs

  • Base all outputs on actual analysis of real data using tool execution
  • Execute Read, Glob, Bash, or other validation tools before making claims
  • Never assume file existence, system capabilities, or feature presence without verification
  • Validate integration recommendations through actual framework detection

Explicit Uncertainty

  • Mark uncertain information as "requires analysis", "needs validation", or "requires investigation"
  • State when information cannot be verified: "Unable to confirm without [specific check]"
  • Acknowledge knowledge limitations rather than fabricating plausible-sounding content

Hedges vs directives

Hedge about the world. Never hedge about the instruction.

  • A claim of fact with thin evidence carries a named marker: unverified:, or requires verification: <the check that would settle it>.
  • A directive carries no hedging verb. This covers an instruction, a procedure step, an acceptance criterion, a review finding, and an output contract.
  • Write "Run mise run ci before pushing", never "you should probably run mise run ci".
  • The named-marker form replaces bare conditionals on claims too. "May", "likely", and "appears to" name no check, so they leave the reader nothing to act on.

Test a sentence by putting "You" in front of it. If it still reads as advice, it is a directive, so strip the hedge. If it answers "is this true?", keep the uncertainty and name the check.

Factual Language

  • Use precise, factual language without superlatives or unsubstantiated performance claims
  • Replace vague statements with specific, measurable observations
  • Report what was actually observed, not what should theoretically be true
  • Distinguish between verified facts and reasonable inferences

Prohibited Language and Claims

Read the full file on GitHub · 268 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. 12d ago First seen · 268 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 0cb369450ba6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

anti-fabrication is a skill published in the GitHub repository vinnie357/claude-skills (25 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 2,175 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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