severitylisted
Install: claude install-skill mthines/agent-skills
# Severity Assessment
Rate how severe a finding or bug is **if it is real**, and emit one tier the caller acts on.
> **Severity is not confidence.** `confidence` answers *is this real / correct*.
> `severity` answers *how bad is it if it is*. The two are orthogonal — a caller
> composes them (surface when severity clears the caller's bar for its tier AND
> confidence clears that bar). Never fold them into one number.
> **What is actually deterministic here.** One thing: the **path floor** in Step 2
> is an executable glob against the file path (a real `case` match), so it never
> depends on model judgment. The **escalators** (data-loss / security / concurrency
> shapes) are heuristic — an LLM reads the code shape. This is the honest split;
> do not call the escalators deterministic. It mirrors `confidence`'s executable
> rule checks only for the path floor.
## Contents
- [Mode Detection](#mode-detection)
- [Severity rubric](#severity-rubric)
- [Step 1 — Base tier from axes](#step-1--base-tier-from-axes)
- [Step 2 — Path floor and escalators](#step-2--path-floor-and-escalators)
- [Step 3 — Combined tier](#step-3--combined-tier)
- [Output Format](#output-format)
- [Mapping to a reviewer's blocking flag](#mapping-to-a-reviewers-blocking-flag)
- [How Callers Consume the Tier](#how-callers-consume-the-tier)
- [Evals](#evals)
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## Mode Detection
Check the arguments: `$ARGUMENTS`
| Argument | Default | Rates the severity of | Typical caller