rootnode-behavioral-tuninglisted

Diagnoses and fixes Claude behavioral issues in system prompts and Projects using tested countermeasure templates. Use when "Claude is too verbose," "keeps hedging," "agrees with everything," "claims it did something it didn't," "won't use a tool," "fix Claude's output," "tune Claude's behavior," "Claude ignores my preferences," "adds unsolicited disclaimers," "uses too many lists." Covers ten tendencies: agreeableness (output-content + persistent-preference), hedging, verbosity, list overuse, fabricated precision, over-exploration, tool miscalibration (over- and under-triggering), LaTeX defaulting, editorial drift, self-referential fabrication. Also use when auditing a system prompt for behavioral calibration or recalibrating a pre-4.7 prompt, and when users describe recurring output problems without naming a tendency. Do NOT use for scoring a prompt's overall quality — use rootnode-prompt-validation if available.
drayline/rootnode-skills · ★ 40 · AI & Automation · score 76

Install: claude install-skill drayline/rootnode-skills

# Behavioral Tuning for Claude > **Calibration:** Tier 2 (Sonnet-graceful) — designed and tested against Opus 5 + Sonnet 5 dual-primary. Runs correctly on Sonnet 4.6 (legacy-graceful) with slightly less depth on multi-dimensional analysis; on Haiku 4.5 with extended thinking; fallback-graceful on Opus 4.8. Effort default is `high` on Opus 5 and Sonnet 5; step down to `medium` for cost-sensitive runs where evals show quality holds. See repository README for model compatibility. **Version 2.0 — 10-tendency taxonomy, Opus 4.8 calibration.** ## Purpose Diagnose Claude behavioral tendencies in system prompts and Projects, and retrieve the appropriate countermeasure template. Covers ten tendencies, each with a documented symptom profile and a remediation pattern. Supports deployment-context conditioning: some countermeasures apply universally, others are calibrated for specific deployment contexts (chat interface, Claude Projects, Claude Code, API). This Skill does not evaluate a prompt's overall quality — for that, use `rootnode-prompt-validation` if available. This Skill does not redesign a Project's architecture — for that, use `rootnode-project-audit` or `rootnode-full-stack-audit` if available. It focuses specifically on behavioral-layer countermeasure selection and application. ## Reasoning discipline A defensible countermeasure recommendation shows its work. Observe the symptom in the user's specific language, identify which tendency it most closely matches against th