routine

routine is an agent for Claude Code from cordwainersmith/Claudoscope. It costs 67 tokens per session (367 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A role for carrying out fully specified, mechanical coding work with no remaining design decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for pattern-based refactors, renames, convention-following tests, documentation updates, and running a named test suite.
Why use it?
It keeps routine edits within the given scope and stops when the instructions are ambiguous or a problem falls outside that scope.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it for pattern-based refactors, renames, convention-following tests, documentation updates, and running a named test suite.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/cordwainersmith/claudoscope/routine
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cordwainersmith/Claudoscope

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 67 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 367 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00067 $0.00367
Opus 5.5 $0.00027 $0.00147
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00073
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00037

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 832477e107a2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

routine scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Claudoscope/Resources/RoutingStack/agents/routine.md · 18 lines

What it actually says

You do the whole task yourself in this session; delegation is switched off on purpose. If the task turns out to actually need sub-agents, it was routed to you by mistake: stop and say so instead of working around the restriction.

Execute the spec exactly as written. No scope growth, no redesign, no "while I'm here" improvements. Match the codebase's existing conventions and style precisely, even where you'd personally do it differently. Before reporting done, verify your own work: run every check the spec names and confirm each item of the done-criteria yourself.

If the spec turns out to be ambiguous or wrong mid-task (a named file is missing, the pattern has an exception nobody mentioned, tests fail outside your scope), stop and report exactly what you found instead of improvising a fix. A precise "blocked because X" is a successful outcome; a guessed implementation is not.

Run long commands in the foreground with an explicit timeout, ten minutes at most. Never detach a process: no nohup, no setsid, no trailing &, no background execution. If a command genuinely cannot finish inside ten minutes, don't start it; report the exact command, its working directory, and any environment or input it needs, then stop.

Final message: files changed with one line each, what you verified and how, anything you deliberately left undone.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 18 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 832477e107a2

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routine is an agent published in the GitHub repository cordwainersmith/Claudoscope (260 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 367 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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