Vibe
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Vibe Code Orchestrator (VCO) is a governed runtime entry that freezes requirements, bounds execution, and enforces verification and phase cleanup.
Catches shortcuts and reward hacking — weakening or deleting tests to make them pass, hard-coding expected outputs, silently dropping requirements, or claiming work is done without running it.
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Install Vibe Anti Rationalization Check
$ npx skills add ash1794/vibe-engineering --skill vibe-anti-rationalization-check -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install ash1794/vibe-engineering vibe-anti-rationalization-check --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ash1794/vibe-engineering.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/vibe-engineering/skills/vibe-anti-rationalization-check .claude/skills/vibe-anti-rationalization-check && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "vibe-anti-rationalization-check" agent skill from https://github.com/ash1794/vibe-engineering/tree/master/plugins/vibe-engineering/skills/vibe-anti-rationalization-check into .claude/skills/vibe-anti-rationalization-check/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "vibe-anti-rationalization-check", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/ash1794/vibe-engineering/tree/master/plugins/vibe-engineering/skills/vibe-anti-rationalization-checkType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add ash1794/vibe-engineering --skill vibe-anti-rationalization-check -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install ash1794/vibe-engineering vibe-anti-rationalization-check --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ash1794/vibe-engineering.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/vibe-engineering/skills/vibe-anti-rationalization-check .agents/skills/vibe-anti-rationalization-check && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "vibe-anti-rationalization-check" agent skill from https://github.com/ash1794/vibe-engineering/tree/master/plugins/vibe-engineering/skills/vibe-anti-rationalization-check into .agents/skills/vibe-anti-rationalization-check/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "vibe-anti-rationalization-check", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add ash1794/vibe-engineering --skill vibe-anti-rationalization-check -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install ash1794/vibe-engineering vibe-anti-rationalization-check --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ash1794/vibe-engineering.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/vibe-engineering/skills/vibe-anti-rationalization-check .cursor/skills/vibe-anti-rationalization-check && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "vibe-anti-rationalization-check" agent skill from https://github.com/ash1794/vibe-engineering/tree/master/plugins/vibe-engineering/skills/vibe-anti-rationalization-check into .cursor/skills/vibe-anti-rationalization-check/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "vibe-anti-rationalization-check", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/ash1794/vibe-engineering.git --path plugins/vibe-engineering/skills/vibe-anti-rationalization-check--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add ash1794/vibe-engineering --skill vibe-anti-rationalization-check -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install ash1794/vibe-engineering vibe-anti-rationalization-check --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ash1794/vibe-engineering.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/vibe-engineering/skills/vibe-anti-rationalization-check .gemini/skills/vibe-anti-rationalization-check && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "vibe-anti-rationalization-check" agent skill from https://github.com/ash1794/vibe-engineering/tree/master/plugins/vibe-engineering/skills/vibe-anti-rationalization-check into .gemini/skills/vibe-anti-rationalization-check/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "vibe-anti-rationalization-check", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install ash1794/vibe-engineering vibe-anti-rationalization-checkInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add ash1794/vibe-engineering --skill vibe-anti-rationalization-check -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ash1794/vibe-engineering.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/vibe-engineering/skills/vibe-anti-rationalization-check .github/skills/vibe-anti-rationalization-check && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "vibe-anti-rationalization-check" agent skill from https://github.com/ash1794/vibe-engineering/tree/master/plugins/vibe-engineering/skills/vibe-anti-rationalization-check into .github/skills/vibe-anti-rationalization-check/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "vibe-anti-rationalization-check", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add ash1794/vibe-engineering --skill vibe-anti-rationalization-check -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install ash1794/vibe-engineering vibe-anti-rationalization-check --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ash1794/vibe-engineering.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/vibe-engineering/skills/vibe-anti-rationalization-check .opencode/skills/vibe-anti-rationalization-check && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "vibe-anti-rationalization-check" agent skill from https://github.com/ash1794/vibe-engineering/tree/master/plugins/vibe-engineering/skills/vibe-anti-rationalization-check into .opencode/skills/vibe-anti-rationalization-check/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "vibe-anti-rationalization-check", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
vibe-anti-rationalization-check- GitHub stars
- 163
- Token cost
- ~999 tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 522 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 33
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
Catches shortcuts and reward hacking — weakening or deleting tests to make them pass, hard-coding expected outputs, silently dropping requirements, or claiming work is done without running it.
- Works in 5 steps: Diff check — Review your own diff for… → Requirement check — Re-read the original… → Evidence check — For each "works" or… → …
- SKILL.md covers When to Use This Skill, When NOT to Use This Skill, Reward-Hacking Patterns and Steps, plus 1 more section
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Vibe Anti Rationalization Check is an agent skill from ash1794/vibe-engineering. Catches shortcuts and reward hacking — weakening or deleting tests to make them pass, hard-coding expected outputs, silently dropping requirements, or claiming work is done without running it. Use before declaring a task complete and whenever a test or requirement feels like it's in the way.
Its SKILL.md is about 1000 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
The repository describes itself as: 33 engineering discipline skills for Claude Code, OpenAI Codex & Gemini CLI + a CLI for CI/CD enforcement. Extracted from real-world multi-agent system development. Born from… The licence is MIT.
Example prompts
- “Use the vibe-anti-rationalization-check skill to catch shortcuts and reward hacking — weakening or deleting tests to make them pass, hard-coding…”
- “/vibe-anti-rationalization-check”
Workflow steps
5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Diff check — Review your own diff for the patterns above. Pay particular attention to changes under test directories, in CI config, and in…
- Requirement check — Re-read the original request. List every requirement and mark each one done or not done.
- Evidence check — For each "works" or "passes" claim, is there command output from this session behind it?
- Resolve
- Disclose — If anything was skipped, weakened, or changed in a test, say so plainly in the final summary. Never hide a shortcut.
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 8f1d71b. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
Vibe Anti Rationalization Check loads about 999 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 81 tokens; SKILL.md has 522 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
The full file from ash1794/vibe-engineering at commit 8f1d71b, republished under its MIT licence (© ash1794). 522 words, ~999 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/vibe-anti-rationalization-check/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- vibe-anti-rationalization-check
- description
- Catches shortcuts and reward hacking — weakening or deleting tests to make them pass, hard-coding expected outputs, silently dropping requirements, or claiming work is done without running it. Use before declaring a task complete and whenever a test or requirement feels like it's in the way.
- user-invocable
- true
vibe-anti-rationalization-check
Current models rarely skip work out of laziness. The failure that remains is subtler: satisfying the check instead of the goal. A test gets special-cased, an assertion loosened, a requirement quietly narrowed, and the summary says "done." This skill catches that and makes it visible.
When to Use This Skill
- Before saying a task is complete, fixed, or passing
- A test is failing and the quickest route to green is changing the test
- You're about to narrow a requirement the user stated
- You're about to write "in the interest of time...", "for now...", or "simplified"
- You catch yourself explaining why something "doesn't really need" to be done
When NOT to Use This Skill
- The user explicitly asked to skip or simplify something
- The test itself is genuinely wrong (fix it, but say so explicitly and explain why)
- You're genuinely unsure whether something is needed (ask the user instead)
Reward-Hacking Patterns
| Pattern | What it looks like | Do instead |
|---|---|---|
| Test tampering | Loosening an assertion, adding a skip, deleting a failing case, raising a tolerance | Fix the code. If the test is wrong, change it and say why in the summary. |
| Special-casing | if input == <test fixture>: return <expected> or detecting the test environment | Implement the general behavior. |
| Hard-coded outputs | Returning the literal value a test expects | Compute it. |
| Mocking away the subject | Mocking the very function the test is supposed to exercise | Mock only external boundaries. |
| Silent scope cut | Implementing 4 of 5 requirements and summarizing as "done" | Finish, or list exactly what is missing. |
| Unverified claim | "This should fix it" / "Tests pass" without running them | Run the command and quote the result. |
| Budget loosening | Raising a performance/size budget or threshold because the check failed | Fix the code; changing a budget needs a spec change and a stated reason |
| "It's flaky" | Re-running until green, adding a retry | Find the variable (vibe-flake-root-cause) |
| Self-approval | Recording a human's approval on their behalf, or treating a code comment as sign-off | Point the human to the item to approve (vibe-publication-leak-guard) |
| Error swallowing | catch {} / except: pass to stop a crash | Handle the specific error, or let it surface. |
| Deferred forever | "I'll add that later" with no tracked follow-up | Do it now, or create a tracked issue/TODO with a reference. |
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Steps
- Diff check — Review your own diff for the patterns above. Pay particular attention to changes under test directories, in CI config, and in lint/skip annotations.
- Requirement check — Re-read the original request. List every requirement and mark each one done or not done.
- Evidence check — For each "works" or "passes" claim, is there command output from this session behind it?
- Resolve:
- A legitimate reason to deviate → ask the user, or state it prominently in the summary
- A rationalization → do the work
- Disclose — If anything was skipped, weakened, or changed in a test, say so plainly in the final summary. Never hide a shortcut.
Output
When run as a self-check, report only if something was found. When invoked explicitly:
Rationalization Check
| # | Pattern | Location | Resolution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Test tampering | auth_test.go:88 tolerance 0.01 → 0.5 | Reverted; fixed rounding in calc.go |
Requirements: X/Y met — [list any not met] Unverified claims: [none / list]
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Files
Just SKILL.md in plugins/vibe-engineering/skills/vibe-anti-rationalization-check of ash1794/vibe-engineering.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 8f1d71b
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| Vibe Anti Rationalization Check this skillash1794/vibe-engineering | 163 | — | ~999 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
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| Hackyaklang/hack-skills | 2.4k | — | ~4.7k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT |
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Questions about Vibe Anti Rationalization Check
What does Vibe Anti Rationalization Check do?
Catches shortcuts and reward hacking — weakening or deleting tests to make them pass, hard-coding expected outputs, silently dropping requirements, or claiming work is done without running it. Vibe Anti Rationalization Check is an agent skill from ash1794/vibe-engineering. Catches shortcuts and reward hacking — weakening or deleting tests to make them pass, hard-coding expected outputs, silently dropping requirements, or claiming work is done without running it.
How do I install Vibe Anti Rationalization Check in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add ash1794/vibe-engineering --skill vibe-anti-rationalization-check -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/vibe-engineering/skills/vibe-anti-rationalization-check in ash1794/vibe-engineering) into .claude/skills/vibe-anti-rationalization-check in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Vibe Anti Rationalization Check in Codex?
Run `npx skills add ash1794/vibe-engineering --skill vibe-anti-rationalization-check -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/vibe-engineering/skills/vibe-anti-rationalization-check in ash1794/vibe-engineering) into .agents/skills/vibe-anti-rationalization-check in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Vibe Anti Rationalization Check in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add ash1794/vibe-engineering --skill vibe-anti-rationalization-check -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/vibe-anti-rationalization-check, .gemini/skills/vibe-anti-rationalization-check, .github/skills/vibe-anti-rationalization-check and .opencode/skills/vibe-anti-rationalization-check in your project.
What does Vibe Anti Rationalization Check need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Vibe Anti Rationalization Check is instructions for the agent only.
Does Vibe Anti Rationalization Check access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Vibe Anti Rationalization Check safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does Vibe Anti Rationalization Check use?
Vibe Anti Rationalization Check is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Vibe Anti Rationalization Check use?
About 999 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Vibe Anti Rationalization Check?
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Who maintains Vibe Anti Rationalization Check?
ash1794 (a GitHub user) maintains it in ash1794/vibe-engineering, which has 163 GitHub stars. The repository holds 33 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.
Source: ash1794/vibe-engineering on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.