csa-basic-threshold-differences

csa-basic-threshold-differences is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from x3allamerican/skills. It costs 45 tokens per session (692 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to the different CSA alert thresholds for general freight, hazmat, and passenger carriers. An alert threshold is the percentile at which FMCSA may prioritize a carrier for intervention.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare thresholds, interpret a carrier’s alert status, and understand how carrier type and peer groups affect scoring.
Why use it?
The same score can be acceptable for one type of carrier but trigger an alert for another because hazardous materials and passengers require tighter limits.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/x3allamerican/skills/csa-basic-threshold-differences
Any agent
npx skills add x3allamerican/skills --skill csa-basic-threshold-differences
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/x3allamerican/skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 $0.00045 $0.00692
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00346
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00138
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00069

Measured 3d ago against content hash ca1eb909653a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

csa-basic-threshold-differences 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 3d 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/csa-basic-threshold-differences/SKILL.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

BASIC Threshold Differences: General Freight vs Hazmat vs Passenger

The CSA Safety Measurement System (SMS) sets different intervention thresholds depending on what the carrier hauls. Same BASIC score can be alert-level for one carrier and clean for another.

Threshold table

Carrier type Unsafe Driving HOS Compliance Driver Fitness Controlled Substances Vehicle Maintenance Hazmat Compliance Crash Indicator
General freight 65th 65th 80th 80th 80th N/A 65th
Hazmat carrier 60th 60th 75th 75th 75th 60th 60th
Passenger carrier 50th 50th 65th 65th 65th N/A 50th

Why the difference

  • Hazmat carriers handle materials that can harm public — tighter safety expected
  • Passenger carriers carry humans — tighter safety expected
  • General freight is property-only — wider tolerance

What "alert threshold" means

  • BASIC at or above the threshold percentile = alert
  • Triggers FMCSA intervention prioritization
  • Combined with crash history can trigger Compliance Review

How peer groups work

FMCSA assigns each carrier to a peer group based on:

  • Number of power units (vehicles)
  • Inspection volume
  • Time in operation

Peer group = pool of similar carriers. Your BASIC percentile is relative to your peer group.

Implications for owner-operator vs fleet

  • 1-truck owner-operator: smaller peer group, more volatile percentile
  • 50-truck fleet: larger peer group, more stable percentile
  • 100+ truck fleet: largest peer group, most stable

Compass dashboard view

Compass CSA module shows your BASIC scores and the relevant threshold for your carrier type. Alert flags trigger when within 5 percentile points of threshold.

CFR citations

  • 49 CFR § 385.4
  • FMCSA SMS Methodology

How Compass surfaces this

Searchable in Compass Ask. Runs against the carrier's actual fleet data when invoked from the relevant tracker. Read-only; no actions without explicit user approval.

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 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. 3d ago First seen · 62 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A ca1eb909653a

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csa-basic-threshold-differences is a skill published in the GitHub repository x3allamerican/skills (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 692 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 2026-08-31.

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