Agent skill

Calibrate Claim Confidence

by Bitterbot-AI in Bitterbot-AI/bitterbot-desktop

When the agent's epistemic state (GCCRF) indicates low empowerment and falling certainty, hedges out confident absolutes ("definitely", "always", "100%") in outgoing messages.

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Install Calibrate Claim Confidence

skills CLI
$ npx skills add Bitterbot-AI/bitterbot-desktop --skill calibrate-claim-confidence -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install Bitterbot-AI/bitterbot-desktop calibrate-claim-confidence --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Bitterbot-AI/bitterbot-desktop.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/calibrate-claim-confidence .claude/skills/calibrate-claim-confidence && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.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/

Facts

Skill name
calibrate-claim-confidence
GitHub stars
2.5k
Token cost
~404 tokens
SKILL.md length
142 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
17
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

When the agent's epistemic state (GCCRF) indicates low empowerment and falling certainty, hedges out confident absolutes ("definitely", "always", "100%") in outgoing messages.

  • SKILL.md covers What you'll see and Implementation
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Calibrate Claim Confidence is an agent skill from Bitterbot-AI/bitterbot-desktop. When the agent's epistemic state (GCCRF) indicates low empowerment and falling certainty, hedges out confident absolutes ("definitely", "always", "100%") in outgoing messages.

Its SKILL.md is about 400 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: Bitterbot - a mesh of agents that turns shared experience into collective capability. The licence is MIT.

Example prompts

  • “definitely”
  • “always”
  • “/calibrate-claim-confidence”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cd4562a. 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

Calibrate Claim Confidence loads about 404 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 51 tokens; SKILL.md has 142 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~51
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~404

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 Bitterbot-AI/bitterbot-desktop at commit cd4562a, republished under its MIT licence (© Bitterbot-AI). 142 words, ~404 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/calibrate-claim-confidence/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
calibrate-claim-confidence
description
When the agent's epistemic state (GCCRF) indicates low empowerment and falling certainty, hedges out confident absolutes ("definitely", "always", "100%") in outgoing messages.
tier
executable
bitterbot.always
true

calibrate-claim-confidence

Bitterbot has an epistemic state (the GCCRF reward function) that quantifies how empowered the agent feels by its current knowledge: high empowerment means it has corroborated context, low means it's running on uncertain ground. When the agent is about to send a message containing confident absolutes ("definitely", "certainly", "always", "100%") but its empowerment is low and its certainty is dropping, this interceptor rewrites the message into hedged language.

This is the canonical example of state-binding: no other agent framework reads gccrf.empowerment to decide whether to hedge an outgoing statement.

What you'll see

When the agent is uncertain, you will see softer language: "likely" instead of "definitely", "typically" instead of "always", "it appears" instead of "obviously". When it is confident (high empowerment, rising certainty), absolutes are left intact.

Implementation

Built-in interceptor calibrate-claim-confidence:default lives in src/agents/skills/builtin-interceptors/calibrate-claim-confidence.ts. Fires up to 6 times per session.

© Bitterbot-AI, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/calibrate-claim-confidence of Bitterbot-AI/bitterbot-desktop.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit cd4562a

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Loading Indicatorsthedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist74k—~434Automated safety check: PassMIT
Analyzing Indicators Of Compromisemukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills34k—~1.9kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0

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Questions about Calibrate Claim Confidence

What does Calibrate Claim Confidence do?

When the agent's epistemic state (GCCRF) indicates low empowerment and falling certainty, hedges out confident absolutes ("definitely", "always", "100%") in outgoing messages. Calibrate Claim Confidence is an agent skill from Bitterbot-AI/bitterbot-desktop. When the agent's epistemic state (GCCRF) indicates low empowerment and falling certainty, hedges out confident absolutes ("definitely", "always", "100%") in outgoing messages.

How do I install Calibrate Claim Confidence in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add Bitterbot-AI/bitterbot-desktop --skill calibrate-claim-confidence -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/calibrate-claim-confidence in Bitterbot-AI/bitterbot-desktop) into .claude/skills/calibrate-claim-confidence in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Calibrate Claim Confidence in Codex?

Run `npx skills add Bitterbot-AI/bitterbot-desktop --skill calibrate-claim-confidence -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/calibrate-claim-confidence in Bitterbot-AI/bitterbot-desktop) into .agents/skills/calibrate-claim-confidence in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Calibrate Claim Confidence 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 Bitterbot-AI/bitterbot-desktop --skill calibrate-claim-confidence -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/calibrate-claim-confidence, .gemini/skills/calibrate-claim-confidence, .github/skills/calibrate-claim-confidence and .opencode/skills/calibrate-claim-confidence in your project.

What does Calibrate Claim Confidence need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Calibrate Claim Confidence is instructions for the agent only.

Does Calibrate Claim Confidence 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 Calibrate Claim Confidence 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 Calibrate Claim Confidence use?

Calibrate Claim Confidence 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 Calibrate Claim Confidence use?

About 404 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.6k 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 Calibrate Claim Confidence?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Calibrate Claim Confidence: Claims (ruvnet/ruflo, 74k stars), Claim Strength Calibrator (aipoch/medical-research-skills, 1.9k stars), Confidence Calibration Check (GarethManning/education-agent-skills, 840 stars) and Loading Indicators (thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist, 74k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Calibrate Claim Confidence?

Bitterbot-AI (a GitHub organization) maintains it in Bitterbot-AI/bitterbot-desktop, which has 2,469 GitHub stars. The repository holds 17 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: Bitterbot-AI/bitterbot-desktop on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.