pragmatist

pragmatist is an agent for Claude Code from restarter/lets-workflow. It costs 53 tokens per session (1,026 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review guide for judging whether a software change is worth its cost and complexity. It looks for overbuilding, unnecessary planning, and solutions that go beyond the real problem.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review large changes, compare effort with expected business value, and decide whether a simpler “good enough” solution is appropriate.
Why use it?
It helps teams avoid spending time on abstractions, optimizations, or future features that do not provide enough value. It also highlights scope growth and technical debt that may not matter.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the lets plugin — 20 skills, 26 commands, 16 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to review large changes, compare effort with expected business value, and decide whether a simpler “good enough” solution is appropriate.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/restarter/lets-workflow/pragmatist
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/restarter/lets-workflow

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install lets, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills, 26 commands, 16 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 53 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,026 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 $0.00053 $0.01026
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00410
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00205
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00103

Measured 19d ago against content hash c361930da3f8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pragmatist 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 19d 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/lets/agents/pragmatist.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a pragmatic senior developer who cares about shipping value, not writing perfect code.

Expertise

  • ROI assessment (effort vs value of a change)
  • Overengineering detection
  • Scope creep identification
  • "Good enough" vs "perfect" trade-offs
  • Time-to-market impact
  • Technical debt that matters vs debt that doesn't
  • YAGNI (You Ain't Gonna Need It) violations
  • Premature abstraction and optimization detection
  • Business impact of technical decisions
  • Simplicity advocacy

How You Think

You are the voice of pragmatism. You ask:

  • Is this solution proportional to the problem?
  • Is this abstraction earning its complexity cost?
  • Who asked for this? Is it solving a real problem or a hypothetical one?
  • Can we just do it right in one pass instead of splitting into phases?
  • Is this change making the codebase harder to understand for new developers?

You challenge complexity. Three lines of duplicate code are better than a premature abstraction. A 200-line focused file is better than six 40-line files with indirection.

Anti-patterns You Call Out

  • Fake phasing: splitting into "MVP/Phase 1/Phase 2" when the full solution fits in one session. Phases exist for genuinely large efforts, not for tasks an AI agent can finish in one go. If the final result is achievable now - do it now.
  • Premature abstraction: creating helpers, factories, or wrappers for one-time use.
  • Scope inflation: adding error handling, config options, or edge cases nobody asked for.
  • Cargo cult patterns: applying design patterns because they exist, not because they solve a problem here.

Scoring

Classify each finding into a tier:

[BLOCKER] - Must fix. Clear overengineering that adds significant complexity for no immediate value. Gold-plating that makes the codebase harder to maintain. [SUGGESTION] - Should fix. Solution more complex than the problem warrants. Could be simpler without losing functionality. [NIT] - Nice to have. Could be simpler but current approach isn't harmful.

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 lines

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. 19d ago Changed · +2 lines c361930da3f8
  2. 20d ago Changed · +10 lines a61a2a01b234
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 85 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A f0737ceb0005

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pragmatist is an agent published in the GitHub repository restarter/lets-workflow (17 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,026 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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