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The Driftproof receipt for crafting-effective-readmes on Claude Sonnet 5, from Report 005, dated 2026-08-18, and what it can say.

crafting-effective-readmes on claude-sonnet-5

Run on 2026-08-18, runner 0.5.0, surface claude-cli, verification level TESTED.

Not measured

This receipt carries no verdict: it does not record that a model answered the run.

Skill token cost: about +669 input tokens per call, estimated from the SKILL.md length (not measured).

driftproof badge: not measured on claude-sonnet-5, 2026-08-18

The two arms

armmeanspread across casescases
with the skill0.795± 0.2347
without the skill0.811± 0.1357

No lift is stated for a state that did not measure one. A spread is the sample standard deviation of the per-case means: a descriptive spread with no coverage probability. The verdict above reads each case's two bands, not these aggregates.

The two arms of this receipt drawn as ranges, with the effect floor marked. 0 0.25 0.5 0.75 1 overlapping without the skill 0.811 with the skill 0.795

What was verified

receipt_hash verified when this page was built from receipts/report-005/crafting-effective-readmes__claude-sonnet-5.json; run.transcripts records retained-local.

Receipt hash: 739d8d89cd37fd9d5075a83fa1519147da8d59acb647b1a0db65141aa0480d0f

Check this file yourself

validate shows that this file is unchanged since it was sealed. It does not show who made it or who sealed it.

curl -fsSLO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/driftproofhq/driftproof/main/receipts/report-005/crafting-effective-readmes__claude-sonnet-5.json

npx driftproof@0.28.0 validate crafting-effective-readmes__claude-sonnet-5.json

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