heuristics-expert

heuristics-expert is an agent for Claude Code from jkitchin/discopt. It costs 82 tokens per session (1,896 once invoked), scanned A, original, EPL-2.0.

An agent for primal heuristics, which are methods that quickly search for usable solutions to an optimization problem. It covers approaches such as multi-start search, feasibility pump, large neighborhood search, and related hybrid methods.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate early infeasibility reports, find an initial solution, or improve solution quality when speed matters more than proving the best possible answer.
Why use it?
It helps when the solver reports no usable solution within the time limit or says a problem is infeasible before a good solution is found. These methods focus on finding feasible or good-enough answers quickly.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/jkitchin/discopt/heuristics-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jkitchin/discopt

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.

agentmods badge for heuristics-expert

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/jkitchin/discopt/heuristics-expert"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/jkitchin/discopt/heuristics-expert.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 82 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,896 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00082 $0.01896
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00948
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00379
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00190

Measured 6d ago against content hash d64ac1921b9f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

heuristics-expert 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 6d 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.

python/discopt/skills/agents/heuristics-expert.md · 99 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed EPL-2.0

The repository is licensed EPL-2.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

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. 6d ago First seen · 99 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A d64ac1921b9f

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heuristics-expert is an agent published in the GitHub repository jkitchin/discopt (25 stars, last pushed today), licensed EPL-2.0. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 1,896 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 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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