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Agent skill

Scope Discipline

by tiramisulabs in tiramisulabs/seyfert

Prevent scope creep when a plan or implementation starts absorbing adjacent fixes, speculative compatibility work, migrations, or unrelated refactors.

MITAuto-check passedDevelopment

Install Scope Discipline

skills CLI
$ npx skills add tiramisulabs/seyfert --skill scope-discipline -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install tiramisulabs/seyfert scope-discipline --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/tiramisulabs/seyfert.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/scope-discipline .claude/skills/scope-discipline && 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
scope-discipline
GitHub stars
321
Token cost
~632 tokens
SKILL.md length
329 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
4
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Prevent scope creep when a plan or implementation starts absorbing adjacent fixes, speculative compatibility work, migrations, or unrelated refactors.

  • Tasks that involve Refactoring
  • SKILL.md covers Hold the goal, not a frozen…, Route discoveries, Detect accretion and Report
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Scope Discipline is an agent skill from tiramisulabs/seyfert. Prevent scope creep when a plan or implementation starts absorbing adjacent fixes, speculative compatibility work, migrations, or unrelated refactors.

Its SKILL.md is about 630 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files (for example `agents/openai.yaml`).

It sits in Development, covering Refactoring. It works with Discord. The repository describes itself as: the black magic Discord framework 🧙♂️. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Refactoring

Example prompts

  • “/scope-discipline”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit b4b333e. 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

Scope Discipline loads about 632 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 42 tokens; SKILL.md has 329 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~42
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~632

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 tiramisulabs/seyfert at commit b4b333e, republished under its MIT licence (© tiramisulabs). 329 words, ~632 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/scope-discipline/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
scope-discipline
description
Prevent scope creep when a plan or implementation starts absorbing adjacent fixes, speculative compatibility work, migrations, or unrelated refactors.

Scope Discipline

Keep the delivered change anchored to the requested outcome. A discovered issue is evidence to classify, not automatic permission to solve an adjacent problem.

Hold the goal, not a frozen file list

Identify the user-visible outcome and any explicit non-goals. Let the implementation follow repository evidence within that boundary. Routine choices such as using an existing helper, touching a necessary consumer, or adding a focused file do not require a formal amendment when they are clearly necessary to complete the authorized outcome.

Reconsider scope when a proposed addition changes the product contract, introduces a separately deployable mechanism, creates migration or backfill obligations, adds compatibility behavior the user did not request, or could reasonably stand as its own ticket.

Route discoveries

  • Fix defects introduced by the current work.
  • Resolve implementation details that are necessary for the requested outcome.
  • If the stated plan cannot achieve the outcome, explain the conflicting evidence and the smallest material decision needed.
  • Report pre-existing or adjacent defects without changing them unless they block the authorized result.
  • Do not implement hypothetical states, future options, fallbacks, or migrations without evidence that the requested outcome requires them.

Stop for user direction only when the available choices materially change behavior, scope, cost, risk, or external effects. Continue safe investigation and independent work while that decision is pending.

Detect accretion

Re-derive the change from the goal when mechanisms, branches, compatibility paths, or touched subsystems keep increasing across review rounds. Prefer removing incidental complexity over adding another exception. A new file or larger diff is a signal to inspect, not proof of scope violation; judge whether it is necessary for the outcome.

Do not use “while here,” speculative legacy handling, generalized options, or unrelated cleanup to enlarge the task. Conversely, do not leave the requested behavior incomplete merely to preserve an early implementation outline.

Report

Mention adjacent findings, material deviations from the requested outcome, or decisions that remain open. Omit a ceremonial scope ledger when there were no meaningful deviations.

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

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in .agents/skills/scope-discipline of tiramisulabs/seyfert.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml

Open the folder on GitHubat commit b4b333e

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Questions about Scope Discipline

What does Scope Discipline do?

Prevent scope creep when a plan or implementation starts absorbing adjacent fixes, speculative compatibility work, migrations, or unrelated refactors. Scope Discipline is an agent skill from tiramisulabs/seyfert. Prevent scope creep when a plan or implementation starts absorbing adjacent fixes, speculative compatibility work, migrations, or unrelated refactors.

When should I use Scope Discipline?

Scope Discipline fits situations like: tasks that involve Refactoring.

How do I install Scope Discipline in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add tiramisulabs/seyfert --skill scope-discipline -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/scope-discipline in tiramisulabs/seyfert) into .claude/skills/scope-discipline in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Scope Discipline in Codex?

Run `npx skills add tiramisulabs/seyfert --skill scope-discipline -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/scope-discipline in tiramisulabs/seyfert) into .agents/skills/scope-discipline in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Scope Discipline 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 tiramisulabs/seyfert --skill scope-discipline -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/scope-discipline, .gemini/skills/scope-discipline, .github/skills/scope-discipline and .opencode/skills/scope-discipline in your project.

What does Scope Discipline need to run?

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

Does Scope Discipline 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 Scope Discipline 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 Scope Discipline use?

Scope Discipline 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 Scope Discipline use?

About 632 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.5k 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 Scope Discipline?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Scope Discipline: Coding Agent (TermiX-official/cryptoclaw, 100 stars), Guidelines (akash-network/node, 1.1k stars), Migrate Core Code to Submodules (tinyhumansai/openhuman, 42k stars) and Component Refactoring (langflow-ai/langflow, 155k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Scope Discipline?

tiramisulabs (a GitHub organization) maintains it in tiramisulabs/seyfert, which has 321 GitHub stars. The repository holds 4 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.

Source: tiramisulabs/seyfert on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.