model-recommender

model-recommender is an agent for Claude Code from iButters/ClaudeCodePlugins. It costs 246 tokens per session (2,169 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guidance agent for choosing which large language model (LLM) to use for a task. It handles model comparisons and recommendations when the user is deciding between options.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for questions such as which model to use, whether to choose Opus or Sonnet, or how GPT compares with Claude.
Why use it?
It helps turn an unclear model choice into a recommendation based on the task or models being compared. The description does not specify how it evaluates models.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the llm-prompt-optimizer plugin — 1 skill, 3 commands, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit It is for questions such as which model to use, whether to choose Opus or Sonnet, or how GPT compares with Claude.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/ibutters/claudecodeplugins/model-recommender
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/iButters/ClaudeCodePlugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install llm-prompt-optimizer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 3 commands, 3 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 246 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,169 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 unknown 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 $0.00246 $0.02169
Opus 5.5 $0.00098 $0.00868
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00049 $0.00434
Haiku 4.5 $0.00025 $0.00217

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 94750a3f3eb9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

model-recommender 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.

plugins/llm-prompt-optimizer/agents/model-recommender.md · 272 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 272 lines · 246 tokens per session scan A 94750a3f3eb9

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model-recommender is an agent published in the GitHub repository iButters/ClaudeCodePlugins (3 stars, last pushed 10mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 246 tokens to every session and 2,169 once invoked, about $0.0010 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 2026-08-31.