Driftproof

The Driftproof receipt for crafting-effective-readmes on Claude Opus 4.8, from Report 003, dated 2026-08-11, and what it can say.

crafting-effective-readmes on claude-opus-4-8

Run on 2026-08-11, runner 0.3.0, 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-opus-4-8, 2026-08-11

The two arms

armmeanspread across casescases
with the skill0.760± 0.2137
without the skill0.870± 0.0417

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 0.870 with the skill 0.760

What was verified

receipt_hash verified when this page was built from receipts/report-003/crafting-effective-readmes__claude-opus-4-8.json; run.transcripts records retained-local.

Receipt hash: c7e5987bd3ca0cb248c552964262ad6fe938e2391ef95ecc962e710178902c72

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-003/crafting-effective-readmes__claude-opus-4-8.json

npx driftproof@0.28.0 validate crafting-effective-readmes__claude-opus-4-8.json

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