hallucinating-labels SKILL.md skillA
hallucinating-labels from oaustegard/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/hallucinating-labels@v0.1.0Pins v0.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- oaustegard/claude-skills
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hallucinating-labels/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v0.1.0, committed Sep 1, 2026
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- 11,280 bytes
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- 158
- License
- MIT
Assign items to a CLOSED label vocabulary that is too large to put in a prompt — product taxonomies, category hierarchies, tag vocabularies, routing tables, ICD/SIC-style code lists. A cheap model writes the label it thinks the vocabulary would use, and an embedder snaps that writing onto the nearest legal value, so the schema is never transmitted and the output is always in-vocabulary. Use for "classify these into our taxonomy", "tag these against the existing tag list…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# hallucinating-labels Ask a cheap model to write a plausible label for the item. Snap that label onto the real vocabulary with an embedder. The model never sees the label set. Doug Turnbull's pattern ([softwaredoug.com, 2026-08-10](https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2026/08/10/hypothetical-classifications)), with the two prompt and boundary corrections that measurement produced. ## Check the boundary first **If the whole vocabulary fits in a prompt, do not use this skill.** Ship the label list and ask for a constrained choice. Measured on WANDS (860 labels, 468 queries, one gold label each, gemini-3.5-flash-lite): | approach | acc@1 | acc@3 | input tokens/item | |---|---|---|---| | structured output, all 860 labels shipped | **0.701** | **0.744** | 5,265 | | this skill | 0.564 | 0.690 | 6 | | embed the item directly, no model | 0.417 | 0.564 | 0 | Shipping the vocabulary is 14 points more accurate and 880× more expensive. Take the accuracy unless the tokens are the problem. The tokens are the problem when the vocabulary does not fit, when a provider enum cap rejects it, or when per-call cost at …
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How to install
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/hallucinating-labels@sha256:504f0a4c678e5659The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.1.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Source
oaustegard/claude-skills · 158 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ypmlyzwfn5jub7h2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=oaustegard/claude-skills/hallucinating-labels GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/504f0a4c678e5659abb0cd02fd2c2745d4e83a202d7be8de9b9007bb47812eac
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