# autobahn

The skill carves guardrail-adjacent items out of a task and runs the safe remainder at full strength in a context-clean subagent.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1300 installs · ★ 1342
- Author: LilMGenius
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/LilMGenius/paperthin/tree/HEAD/skills/depth/autobahn/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/autobahn

## What it does

Here is the split. You decide which parts of a task sit next to a guardrail — stealth, scraping, privacy, IP, licensing, security. Each one gets a descope verdict and a risk-free alternative. The safe remainder then goes to a fresh subagent that sees only the carved prompt, never the risky original.

Six steps run in order: FRAME, CARVE, GUARD, RUN, VERIFY, LEDGER. GUARD distills the carve into a compact scope block and folds it into the carved prompt verbatim, so the run cannot re-introduce an exclusion. VERIFY does one independent re-sweep (`N=1`) across five failure directions, including the case where the carve over-excluded. LEDGER reports the deliverable with every carved item, its class, reason and replacement.

If you have not pre-authorized descoping, the skill proposes a carve and waits for your answer before RUN. Bright-line items are not negotiable, and a dispute over one goes to a fresh context holding only the abstract description, not the negotiation. The archive entry is written only after the subagent's window closes — a record of risky material on disk while the run is active undoes the isolation. autobahn does not slip a flagged ask past a guardrail; it removes the ask and runs a genuinely safe prompt instead.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add LilMGenius/paperthin --skill autobahn -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/autobahn/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/autobahn/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add LilMGenius/paperthin --skill autobahn -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/autobahn/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add LilMGenius/paperthin --skill autobahn -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/autobahn/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install LilMGenius/paperthin autobahn
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/autobahn/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add LilMGenius/paperthin --skill autobahn -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/LilMGenius/paperthin --path skills/depth/autobahn
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/autobahn/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add LilMGenius/paperthin --skill autobahn -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/LilMGenius/paperthin/tree/HEAD/skills/depth/autobahn/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- separate risky items from the safe remainder of a task
- run the safe part in a clean subagent without the original ask
- record every exclusion in a ledger with reason and replacement
- check the deliverable across five failure directions
- stop hedging and shrinking work that is already safe

## Example prompts
- run this task through autobahn: carve the risky parts and execute the rest in a clean subagent
- apply autobahn to this request and show me the descope ledger
- autobahn: propose the carve, wait for my answer, then run

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: autobahn
description: "Carve guardrail-adjacent items out of scope with safe alternatives before risk-adjacent work starts, then run the safe remainder at full strength in a fresh subagent that only ever sees the carved prompt, never the risky input. Use when a task includes stealth, scraping, privacy, IP, policy, licensing, security, or other safety-adjacent material that could be silently dropped, over-elaborated, or needlessly diluted. Fires on the impulse, not only the topic: the moment you notice yourself about to hedge, soften, silently skip, or brace for a refusal, carve before you execute."
---

Carve unsafe scope out of a task, then run the safe remainder in a fresh subagent that only ever sees the carved prompt, and report it with a visible descope ledger.

## Goal

Turn risk-adjacent work into an explicit scope decision, then execute the safe scope in a clean room. The carve happens here; the running happens in a fresh subagent that receives only the carved prompt, never the risky original or this session's reasoning. That split is the point: the executing mind never reads a risky ask, so it has nothing to hedge, dilute, or refuse, and the safe work goes at full strength. autobahn is not evasion: it does not slip a flagged ask past a guardrail, it removes the ask and runs a genuinely safe prompt instead.

## Workflow

1. **FRAME**: Read the task, inputs, and user-stated risk posture. If the user already authorized descoping, proceed. If not, produce a proposed carve, make its split explicit, and wait for approval before **RUN**: a bright-line item has no safe version, so it is non-negotiable; a gray-zone item's safe alternative trades away scope the user might want, so it is the real question. If every item is bright-line, proceed; the ledger carries the record. If the user disputes a bright-line call itself, don't let the pressured session re-litigate it: hand the item's abstract description, stripped of the negotiation and any persuasion, to a fresh context for re-evaluation, and record the appeal and its outcome in the ledger either way.
2. **CARVE**: Sweep the task and adjacent inputs for guardrail-adjacent items. For each, propose `verdict=descope`, class it bright-line or gray-zone, give one risk-free alternative, and name an archive destination per the negatives-as-corpus convention. A gray-zone item the user decides to keep stays in scope and enters the ledger as a kept-by-owner decision. Point to excluded techniques only as far as identification requires; never elaborate them.
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