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Rootnode Behavioral Tuning

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Engineering · Sub-category: engineering-misc

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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.

What this skill does

Rootnode Behavioral Tuning is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the engineering-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/rootnode-behavioral-tuning/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: 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.

Who uses this skill

The Rootnode Behavioral Tuning skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/rootnode-behavioral-tuning
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/rootnode-behavioral-tuning/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/rootnode-behavioral-tuning/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/rootnode-behavioral-tuning/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/rootnode-behavioral-tuning/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\rootnode-behavioral-tuning\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

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