Claude-Mind: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/aspirations-precheck/SKILL.md

aspirations-precheck is a skill for Claude Code from zkysar1/Claude-Mind. It costs 97 tokens per session (33,772 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A preparation stage that runs checks before an automated goal loop chooses its next task.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for running completion and health checks, rechecking blockers, finding abandoned goals, loading working conventions, and producing candidates for the next task.
Why use it?
It catches unfinished work, unhealthy goals, blockers, guardrail problems, and recurring goals before selection begins.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

This is zkysar1/Claude-Mind's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on Claude-Mind itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything Claude-Mind configures →

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is Bash: bash core/scripts/iteration-open.sh --apply.

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to zkysar1/Claude-Mind. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zkysar1/Claude-Mind/main/.claude/skills/aspirations-precheck/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zkysar1/Claude-Mind

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 97 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 33,772 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: 5 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 Excessive Agency · line 1675
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 1810
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 1813
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 1815
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 1818
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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 $0.00097 $0.33772
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.16886
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.06754
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.03377

Measured 4d ago against content hash aec1e6b97a0b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aspirations-precheck 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.

.claude/skills/aspirations-precheck/SKILL.md · 2,061 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 2,061 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/aspirations-precheck — Pre-Selection Checks

Runs all checks that must happen BEFORE goal selection each iteration. Ensures completion runners fire, aspiration health is maintained, guardrails are checked, blockers are resolved, and recurring goals are tracked.

Step 0: Load ConventionsBash: load-conventions.sh with each name from the conventions: front matter.

Step 0-open: RUN THE ENTRY BATTERY FIRST (g-115-6468) — one call that IS the executor for Step 0a's meter start, the entry checks, and every always-run and medium lane, then prints a per-stage rc table, FINDINGS ONLY, selection candidates, and a NEXT ACTION REQUIRED: imperative. Lane counts are DERIVED — never re-type one here.

Bash: bash core/scripts/iteration-open.sh --apply

It SUBSUMES Step 0a and both the always-run AND medium phase bodies below — do NOT also run them, or the --apply lanes escalate twice. Dispose what it prints, then resume at the first deferrable sweep. Run the standalone fallback (tier table) on wrapper_failed, on a BLIND stage, and on a KILLED run — which reports NEITHER, so judge by rc AND bytes, not output: empty stdout at rc≠0 is BLIND, not clean, and stderr's last -> crumb names the stage in flight (g-115-7844). --dry-run lists lanes and wiring status; an undispatched one prints not-yet-wired, not nothing. The deferrable tier is NOT yet wired (strangler step 3).

⚠ That sentence does not MAKE anything run — its twin said "medium" while that tier sat dark 94-208h on two boxes (g-115-7847). Tiers run by being STAGES in iteration-open.sh.

Rationale, composition contract, worker-vs-reducer meter split: the core/scripts/iteration-open.py docstring; dark-window trace and execution-record design: core/scripts/precheck-medium-battery.py.

Step 0a: Budget Meter Start (Magic Wand 2 — g-115-509)fallback only when Step 0-open did not run; it calls this itself. Initialize the precheck cost meter. The meter returns "drop" for deferrable sweeps ONLY when the zone is tight (zone_drop_rules.tight). Always-run sweeps (Phase 0-pre, 0-pre2, 0-pre3) NEVER drop. The former wall-clock budget-overrun drop path was REMOVED (g-115-1489 — elapsed measured inter-tool-call LLM latency, not script cost, so it dropped EVERY deferrable sweep every iteration and starved the fresh-eyes/felt-sense/health-regression cadence rituals). elapsed-ms is still logged for telemetry. Decisions log to agents/<agent>/session/precheck-drops.jsonl.

Bash: bash core/scripts/aspirations-precheck-budget-meter.sh start

Before any sweep that the table below marks as medium or deferrable, call meter check <sweep-name> and skip the phase when the response is drop. Always-run sweeps skip the check (they never drop). At the bottom of this SKILL.md (after Phase 1) call meter end to write the summary record.

The Invocation column is the exact command (g-115-6207 — 4 of the names below did NOT resolve to a runnable command by name alone, and every one of those failures prints to stderr and exits non-zero, which a batched 2>/dev/null loop renders as an empty-stdout all-clear). Sweep NAME ≠ script name for the two reclaim rows; subcommands are REQUIRED where shown; the sentinel/cadence/always-run battery rows are dispatched by their battery, not standalone scripts. The always-run rows also name a standalone fallback — those scripts DO exist independently and are what a blind battery falls back to; the column half is not a duplicate. Phase bodies below remain the authority on flags (--apply forms); this column mirrors them. rc convention: rc=1 is AMBIGUOUS. precheck-eval run-all exits 1 on ACTIONABLE FINDINGS; l1-skew-check --cadence exits 1 with ZERO output as a documented silent noop. Judge by OUTPUT, not rc alone. Every invocation below was run 2026-08-14 with rc recorded (report forms).

Deferrable phase BODIES live in a digest (g-115-6583). The table above is the index and carries each lane's exact Invocation, so the common path needs no load. Load the digest when a deferrable lane needs its full body — measured markers, parse-shape warnings, incident traces:

Read the full file on GitHub · 2,061 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. 4d ago Changed · +8 lines aec1e6b97a0b
  2. 9d ago Changed · -815 lines f062258f4ac1
  3. 12d ago First seen · 2,868 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A 273d195783fb

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aspirations-precheck is a skill published in the GitHub repository zkysar1/Claude-Mind (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 33,772 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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