baseline-comparison-audit

baseline-comparison-audit is a skill for Claude Code from wenhaochai/claude-plugins. It costs 81 tokens per session (7,728 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of baseline-comparison-audit, MIT.

A review tool for checking whether a research paper compares its method with the right competing methods under fair conditions. A baseline is a comparison method used to show whether the new method performs better.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect the comparison methods, settings, compute, tuning, data, and equal-budget tests described in a paper's evidence record.
Why use it?
It helps identify claims of being the best when an important recent competitor is missing, poorly tuned, or tested with a different budget. It reports possible issues without making the final decision.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the anti-autoresearch plugin — 13 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to inspect the comparison methods, settings, compute, tuning, data, and equal-budget tests described in a paper's evidence record.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add wenhaochai/claude-plugins
Claude Code
/plugin install anti-autoresearch

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install anti-autoresearch, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills.

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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,728 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 91% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00081 $0.07728
Opus 5.5 $0.00032 $0.03091
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.01546
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00773

Measured 24d ago against content hash 1595bbd4da04, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

baseline-comparison-audit 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 24d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

91% identical to baseline-comparison-audit — 519 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

anti-autoresearch/skills/baseline-comparison-audit/SKILL.md · 492 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 492 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Baseline Comparison Audit — is the comparison complete, fair, and significant?

Audit baseline-comparison integrity for: $ARGUMENTS (requires claims.json from /evidence-ledger). Emit span-anchored baseline-comparison-audit.findings.json. This skill computes no verdict.

🔒 Run once per input change; never wrap in /loop, /schedule or CronCreate (${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/support/references/run-cadence.md). Re-run only when the paper, the ledger or the live leaderboard it cross-checks changes.

Read reference/rationale.md for the ARIS lineage and the failure modes this audit targets (why it exists); it is background, not procedure.

Core principle

Ledger-anchored, span-verified, reviewer≠adjudicator, honest about what it cannot settle. Four properties:

  1. Anchor to a PAPER claim. Every above-info finding cites a ledger claim_id and quotes a verbatim span of that claim's text_span (references/integrity-forensics-contract.md rules 1–2). The "outperforms / SOTA / best / first" language lives in comparison and scope claims; the reported baseline set lives in baseline claims; values/table rows in number / table_cell claims. The anchor is whichever paper claim the finding undermines — the expected-baseline list, a leaderboard URL, or a config file:line are forensic context for the description, never the anchor.
  2. The executor assembles facts; the reviewer judges. The profile + a live WebSearch/WebFetch give a candidate expected-baseline set with sources and dates; the executor passes it as structured input and never pre-declares "baseline X is missing" (references/reviewer-independence.md). The model proposes; tools/adjudicate_findings.py decides. This skill computes no verdict.
  3. Unsettleable completeness → hand off, don't guess. "Is this really SOTA / first / the right baseline set?" cannot be closed from inside the paper. Unless an omission is unambiguous, sourced, same-benchmark, and pre-dating, emit verdict_local: needs_external_check + requires_external_check: true, not a flag (contract rule 6).
  4. Observability caps severity. Stated-comparison checks are L0; a fairness finding that needs the actual config/seed files is observability_level_required: 2 and auto-demotes on a PDF-only run (references/observability-levels.md).

Read the full file on GitHub · 492 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files 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.

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baseline-comparison-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository wenhaochai/claude-plugins (18 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 7,728 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to baseline-comparison-audit, differing in 519 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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