terse

A deprecated command alias for turning lean output back on. Lean mode means brief responses and more selective reading of project files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it only in older workflows that expect this alias; the supported command is `/lean on`.
Why use it?
It provides backward compatibility for users who still use the older command name.

Command

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 commands/aksoftcode/aicrew/terse
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AKSoftCode/aicrew
Per session 12 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 168 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00012 $0.00168
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00084
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00034
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00017

Measured yesterday against content hash be3171e9d295, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

terse 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 yesterday.

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.

skills/commands/terse.md · 16 lines

What it actually says

Deprecated. /terse is an alias for /lean on. Use /lean on going forward. See ~/Agents/commands/lean.md for the canonical verbosity toggle.

/terse (deprecated — use /lean on)

Default output is already terse/caveman. See ~/Agents/agents/caveman.md.

Use /lean on to explicitly re-enable terse mode if /normal or /lean off was used earlier in the session. /terse is kept as a backward-compatible alias.

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. yesterday First seen · 16 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A be3171e9d295

Subscribe to this mod's changes

terse is a command published in the GitHub repository AKSoftCode/aicrew (3 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 168 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.