cige-product-defect-escalation

cige-product-defect-escalation is a skill for Claude Code from vivekkrishna/agentic-validation-skills. It costs 62 tokens per session (1,035 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An escalation step for a CIGE test when the product behaves differently from the expected result. A product defect is a bug in the system being tested, after the environment and test steps have been ruled out.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare the intended and observed behavior, confirm the defect against project documentation, and prepare a bug report or escalation.
Why use it?
It separates genuine product bugs from broken environments or outdated tests and checks the product specification and release documentation for the expected behavior.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the agentic-validation-skills plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to compare the intended and observed behavior, confirm the defect against project documentation, and prepare a bug report or escalation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vivekkrishna/agentic-validation-skills/cige-product-defect-escalation
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add vivekkrishna/agentic-validation-skills --skill cige-product-defect-escalation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vivekkrishna/agentic-validation-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agentic-validation-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,035 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 $0.00062 $0.01035
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00517
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00207
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00103

Measured today against content hash e563759f5713, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cige-product-defect-escalation 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 today.

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/cige-product-defect-escalation/SKILL.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CIGE: ProductDefectAgent

Invoked by cige-failure-classification when a run is classified as a Product Defect: execution reached the system under test, the environment is healthy, execution steps are current — but the outcome does not match Intent.

When to invoke

  • Execution reached the system under test
  • Environment is healthy (ruled out by cige-failure-classification as Infrastructure Failure)
  • Execution steps are current (ruled out as Outdated Test Logic)
  • The observed outcome contradicts Intent

This is also the escalation target when cige-stale-execution-repair (Mode A) cannot find any execution path that satisfies Intent within Guardrails — that usually means the failure was misclassified as stale execution when it's really a defect.


What it does

  1. Read Intent (what was expected) and capture actual system behavior (what happened).
  2. Fetch specRef (the BRD / product spec) and buildRef (the tested build's release documentation) to determine ground truth. Four cases:

Case A — specRef unchanged, system diverged. The system broke. This is a confirmed product defect. → File a bug report with: Intent, actual behavior, specRef snapshot, execution trace. → Do not modify the test definition.

Case B — specRef was recently updated, buildRef's release documentation confirms the tested build actually includes that update, and system behavior matches the new spec. The product intentionally changed, and this build actually shipped it. The Intent in the test is now stale. → Propose an Intent update that aligns with the new specRef. → Surface the proposed change for human approval before any write. → Guardrails are never touched, even though the spec changed.

A spec being updated and behavior superficially matching it is not sufficient for Case B on its own — the spec could have been edited ahead of the actual release, or the match could be coincidental. Confirming the build correlation via buildRef is what separates Case B from Case D.

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 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. today Changed · +5 lines · +62 tokens per session e563759f5713
  2. 10d ago First seen · 70 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 9ba9120504fd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cige-product-defect-escalation is a skill published in the GitHub repository vivekkrishna/agentic-validation-skills (1 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 1,035 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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