baseline-comparison-review

baseline-comparison-review is a skill for Claude Code from yeaight7/agent-powerups. It costs 39 tokens per session (490 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A review that compares a proposed machine-learning model with simple reference methods called baselines, such as always choosing the most common class or predicting an average.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before approving a new model, replacing a rule-based system, or accepting reported performance gains.
Why use it?
It shows whether a more complicated model is genuinely better than an easy-to-maintain alternative.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the machine-learning-ops plugin — 7 skills, 4 commands, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it before approving a new model, replacing a rule-based system, or accepting reported performance gains.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yeaight7/agent-powerups/baseline-comparison-review
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 yeaight7/agent-powerups --skill baseline-comparison-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yeaight7/agent-powerups

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install machine-learning-ops, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 4 commands, 3 agents.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 490 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 $0.00039 $0.00490
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00196
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00098
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00049

Measured 1mo ago against content hash eea84ee570e4, 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-review 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 1mo 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/machine-learning-ops/skills/baseline-comparison-review/SKILL.md · 49 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

Machine learning models add technical debt. A complex model earns its place only by clearly outperforming a "dumb" baseline; this review makes that comparison explicit before a new model is approved.

When to Use

  • A new model architecture is proposed for approval
  • A complex model would replace an existing heuristic or rule
  • Reported gains have not been compared against any baseline

Inputs

  • The candidate model's evaluation results (metric + data split)
  • The evaluation code, or enough dataset/task detail to define fair baselines

Workflow

  1. Define the naive baseline:
    • Classification: predict the majority class.
    • Regression: predict the mean or median of the training target.
    • Time series: predict the last known value (naive persistence).
  2. Define the heuristic baseline: what simple if/else rule would a domain expert write?
  3. Evaluate both baselines on the same split and metric as the candidate model.
  4. Evaluate the delta: if the complex model only beats the heuristic baseline marginally (e.g., ~1%), recommend keeping the heuristic — the complexity is not worth the maintenance cost.
  5. Demand a baseline evaluation script before approving the new architecture, so the comparison is rerunnable.

Output

  • A baseline-vs-model comparison on identical data and metric, with an explicit keep/replace recommendation that weighs maintenance cost

Verification

  • Naive baseline defined and evaluated
  • Heuristic baseline defined and evaluated (or explicitly ruled out with a reason)
  • Candidate compared on the same split and metric as the baselines
  • Delta judged against maintenance cost, not just statistical improvement
  • A rerunnable baseline evaluation script exists

Failure Modes

  • No heuristic baseline — comparing only against the naive baseline makes weak models look strong. Ask what rule a domain expert would write.
  • Unequal comparison — baseline evaluated on a different split or metric than the model. Re-run both on identical data.
  • Complexity bias — approving a model for a marginal gain without stating the maintenance cost in the recommendation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 49 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. 1mo ago First seen · 49 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A eea84ee570e4

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baseline-comparison-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository yeaight7/agent-powerups (6 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 490 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-14.