preflight

preflight is a skill for Claude Code from whit3rabbit/clean-room-skill. It costs 27 tokens per session (1,433 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A preparation step that creates or checks the goal contract for a clean-room task before active work begins. It defines the task scope and confirms that the required project folders exist.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare or validate a clean-room run before decomposing the source, writing specifications, or executing the task.
Why use it?
It catches missing goals, paths, or setup details before source discovery and implementation create more artifacts.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Part of the clean-room plugin — 10 skills, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare or validate a clean-room run before decomposing the source, writing specifications, or executing the task.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/whit3rabbit/clean-room-skill/preflight
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 whit3rabbit/clean-room-skill --skill preflight
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/whit3rabbit/clean-room-skill

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install clean-room, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 7 agents.

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 preflight

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/whit3rabbit/clean-room-skill/preflight.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/whit3rabbit/clean-room-skill/preflight)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/whit3rabbit/clean-room-skill/preflight"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/whit3rabbit/clean-room-skill/preflight.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,433 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 MCP Rug Pull · line 16
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 53
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 55
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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 $0.00027 $0.01433
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00717
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00287
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00143

Measured 7d ago against content hash 00944af82eb7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

preflight 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/preflight/SKILL.md · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Clean Room Preflight

Create or validate preflight-goal.json before active clean-room artifacts start.

Preflight stops after a canonical preflight-goal.json is created or validated. Do not create behavior specs, handoff packages, skeleton manifests, implementation plans, coverage ledgers, or clean-run-context artifacts during preflight.

Use the canonical clean-room workflow and read skills/clean-room/references/PREFLIGHT.md when collecting missing goal details. Preserve the clean-room boundary: preflight-goal.json is a controller/contaminated-side artifact and must not be placed in clean-role readable roots.

If the user provides output from CLI clean-room-skill init (or npx clean-room-skill@latest init if the binary is not available), check the generated bootstrap scaffold before creating or copying preflight-goal.json: clean-room-bootstrap.json, contaminated/, clean/, the implementation root, quarantine/, target repo .clean-room/README.md, .clean-room/.gitignore, and .clean-room/local-state.json must exist and agree. In the project layout the task root sits at <base>/<project>/tasks/<task-id>/, the implementation root is the shared project-level implementation/, and clean-room-project.json must exist at the project root. Treat target-repo .clean-room/tasks/ as noncanonical unless explicitly configured; active artifacts belong in the external task root. Treat that scaffold as convenience output only; it is not an active preflight-goal.json, init-config.json, task-manifest.json, or clean-run-context.json.

Required Contract

Record these decisions:

  • End goal, success definition, destination kind, and existing destination handling.
  • Target stack: language, runtime, framework, package manager, and test framework.
  • License and dependency policy, including blocked licenses, blocked dependencies, and native dependency approval.
  • Compatibility policy: public behavior/API exactness only. Private structure, comments, and internal names must not be mirrored.
  • Feature policy: preserve, remove, add, and non-goals.
  • Code hygiene policy: file line caps, max files per iteration, split strategy, exceptions, and forbidden patterns.
  • Output policy: artifact base root, implementation root, assumed output directory, and write mode.
  • Controller policy: attended or unattended, iteration cap, and whether unattended is allowed after preflight.
  • Intent confirmation: intent_confirmation with explicit-user-answer sources for end goal, target stack, and controller mode, plus user-facing summaries of the goal and target stack.
  • Open questions, with blocking questions clearly marked.

Read the full file on GitHub · 73 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 · 73 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 00944af82eb7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

preflight is a skill published in the GitHub repository whit3rabbit/clean-room-skill (10 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 1,433 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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