audit-activation

audit-activation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yonatangross/orchestkit. It costs 77 tokens per session (2,630 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reporting tool that measures which specialized coding agents are actually being started during real workflows.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps analyze agent spawn records, find dormant agents, detect mis-triggering, and decide whether the agent catalogue needs changes.
Why use it?
It shows whether the system is using the right specialists or defaulting to general-purpose agents, so unused or wrongly triggered agents can be identified.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the ork plugin — 106 skills, 35 commands, 36 agents, 32 hooks shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yonatangross/orchestkit/audit-activation
Any agent
npx skills add yonatangross/orchestkit --skill audit-activation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yonatangross/orchestkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ork, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 106 skills, 35 commands, 36 agents, 32 hooks.

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 audit-activation

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/yonatangross/orchestkit/audit-activation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yonatangross/orchestkit/audit-activation.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,630 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00077 $0.02630
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.01315
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00526
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00263

Measured 2d ago against content hash eb807d7ac201, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

audit-activation 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/run-activation-audit.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/ork/skills/audit-activation/SKILL.md · 144 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 144 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

audit-activation

Reports whether OrchestKit's specialized sub-agents are actually being activated, from real spawn telemetry — not vibes. Scope is agent activation, not skill quality.

It answers: "Do my specialized agents get spawned, or does the model default to generic Explore/general-purpose?" Read-only — it never edits agents.

Why this exists: a 2026-06 audit found only ~14% of agent spawns hit the 36-agent catalog vs ~74% generic, with 17/36 agents dormant — and that agents fire ~1:1 with how often a high-traffic skill names them via subagent_type=. Description rewrites ("use proactively") were A/B-tested and gave Δ0, so this skill measures wiring + usage, not description prose. See docs/feat--activation-audit/.

Quick Reference

Category File Impact When to Use
Activation Checks ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/audit-activation/rules/activation-checks.md HIGH What to compute per agent
Classification ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/audit-activation/rules/activation-status.md HIGH fires / mis-triggered / niche / dead buckets
Output Format ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/audit-activation/references/output-format.md MEDIUM Report layout + the spawn-split summary

CRITICAL: Task Management is MANDATORY (CC 2.1.16)

TaskCreate(subject="Audit activation: agent spawn analysis",
  description="Computing generic-vs-specialist split + dormancy from spawn telemetry",
  activeForm="Auditing agent activation")
TaskCreate(subject="Read spawn telemetry", activeForm="Reading subagent-spawns.jsonl")
TaskCreate(subject="Compute split + dormancy", activeForm="Computing split and dormant agents")
TaskCreate(subject="Classify & render", activeForm="Classifying agents and rendering report")
TaskUpdate(taskId="3", addBlockedBy=["2"])
TaskUpdate(taskId="4", addBlockedBy=["3"])

Workflow

  1. Run the script FIRST — every audit starts by running (or, when execution is impossible, explicitly referencing) the deterministic collector:

Read the full file on GitHub · 144 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.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 144 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A eb807d7ac201

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audit-activation is a skill published in the GitHub repository yonatangross/orchestkit (228 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 2,630 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.