tech-assessment

tech-assessment is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zircote-plugins/sigint. It costs 65 tokens per session (3,278 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for evaluating technologies for fit, feasibility, readiness, and the choice between building or buying. It also covers technology trends and, when relevant, checks specific areas such as artificial intelligence, finance, healthcare, or infrastructure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for technology evaluations, feasibility studies, build-versus-buy decisions, technical due diligence, architecture reviews, and technology roadmaps.
Why use it?
It helps compare technology choices against a team’s size, budget, scale, and timeline instead of treating one option as universally best. It makes technical risks and trade-offs explicit.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the sigint plugin — 16 skills, 9 commands, 6 agents, 1 hook 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/zircote-plugins/sigint/tech-assessment
Any agent
npx skills add zircote-plugins/sigint --skill tech-assessment
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zircote-plugins/sigint

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install sigint, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 9 commands, 6 agents, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,278 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 $0.00065 $0.03278
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01639
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00656
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00328

Measured 4d ago against content hash fb99004ff3c1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tech-assessment 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 4d 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/tech-assessment/SKILL.md · 365 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 365 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Technology Assessment

Overview

Technology assessment evaluates technologies for strategic fit, technical feasibility, and competitive advantage. This skill covers frameworks for making informed technology decisions.

Required Frameworks

Framework Output Section Required Condition
TRL Levels Technology Readiness yes
Hype Cycle Mapping Hype Cycle Position yes
Build vs Buy Matrix Build vs Buy Analysis yes
Domain-Specific Due Diligence Due Diligence conditional Applicable domain detected (AI/ML, Fintech, Healthcare, Infrastructure)

Trend Indicators: Load and apply the trend indicator definitions from protocols/TREND-INDICATORS.md.

Critical Assessment Rules

Follow these rules to produce assessments that are honest, grounded, and actionable:

  1. Contextual Grounding: Always tie scores, recommendations, and analysis back to the user's specific context (team size, scale, budget, timeline). A technology that scores 5/5 for Google may score 2/5 for a 10-person startup.
  2. Honest Scoring: Do not inflate scores. A score of 2 or 3 is normal and valuable — it tells the user where the risks are. If a technology has known weaknesses, say so. Scores above 4 require strong justification.
  3. Decisive Recommendations: End every assessment with a clear recommendation. "It depends" is not a recommendation. If the answer genuinely depends, specify what it depends ON and give a recommendation for each scenario.
  4. Trend Indicators Everywhere: Apply INC/DEC/CONST trend indicators to every technology mentioned, not just the primary subject. Trend context helps the user understand trajectory.
  5. Domain Tailoring: When the user's domain has specific considerations (AI/ML, fintech, healthcare, infrastructure), extend the standard framework with domain-specific evaluation criteria rather than using a generic checklist.
  6. Always Consider Alternatives: Every assessment should mention at least 2-3 alternatives to the technology being assessed, with brief comparative notes. The user needs to know what else they could choose.
  7. Quantify When Possible: Prefer concrete numbers over vague qualifiers. "50k msgs/sec" is better than "high throughput." "$23k/year" is better than "affordable." "3-6 months" is better than "some time."

Read the full file on GitHub · 365 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 4d ago First seen · 365 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A fb99004ff3c1

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tech-assessment is a skill published in the GitHub repository zircote-plugins/sigint (20 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 3,278 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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