Kevin Veen-BirkenbachandClaude Opus 5
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Break risk was the half of the confidence block with no method behind it. The fix-confidence half at least pointed at a claim that had been verified; the break-risk half was a feeling with a percent sign, and it was wrong in the direction that costs the operator: too low, because nothing forced an enumeration before the number was written. The skill makes the number a consequence of six questions. Enumerate every consumer against the committed state rather than the working tree, because a symbol with no caller in your branch may still have nine elsewhere. Measure the delta where it becomes observable, not in the source: a port sweep that read as sixteen forwards produced zero in production because the flag it gated on was unrendered template text, and a risk sized against the apparent behaviour would have been sized against something that never ran. Separate live from latent and report both. Walk the deployment matrix and give a verdict per cell instead of averaging two modes into one figure that is wrong in both. Weigh the failure mode, because a fail-open exposure outranks a likelier fail-closed one. And treat subagent reports, conversation summaries and your own earlier messages as claims to re-verify rather than as evidence. Anchors for the bands, and the rule to discount yourself in any area where the operator has already caught you out, so a region with a bad track record gets a worse number than its paper evidence suggests. confidence now calls it every time and reports what it produces instead of estimating its own second number. The MD032 blank line is what markdownlint wants in that file. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
skills 🧠
The agent skill collection of Kevin Veen-Birkenbach.
Every skill is pinned in skills-lock.json for reproducible installs.
First-party skills live under skills/ and are layered on top of the locked ones at install time.
Compatible with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf, Cline, and other agents.
Requirements 📦
- Node.js (provides
npx skills). jq(only required formake update).
Installation 🚀
Install the skills globally into your home (~/.agents/skills and ~/.claude/skills):
make install
Copy the skills into a specific project (<repo>/.agents/skills and <repo>/.claude/skills):
make project TARGET=/path/to/repo
Both commands also patch the target's .claude/settings.json: the caveman and ponytail plugins are enabled so their modes auto-activate on session start, and two reminder hooks are registered — autotune points you at /autotune at most once an hour, dream points you at /dream at most once every twelve hours per repository (stamped in that repository's git dir). Existing settings are preserved.
Restart your agent afterwards so it loads the new skills.
Maintenance 🔧
Refresh every skill to its latest version and rewrite skills-lock.json:
make update
Validate skills-lock.json and shellcheck the scripts (also run by CI on every push and after every update):
make test
Related Tools 🧰
This collection is part of a wider toolset for managing IT and infrastructure:
- alias — shell aliases for common commands.
- package-manager —
pkgmgr, a single command to install and manage these repositories. - infinito-nexus — automation platform for self-hosted infrastructure.
License 📜
MIT License, Copyright (c) 2026 Kevin Veen-Birkenbach.
Author 👤
Kevin Veen-Birkenbach kevin@veen.world
Thanks 🙏
Thanks to the #ai:infinito.nexus community, and especially to Paulinhx for the inspiration.
Donation ❤️
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