compare-options

compare-options is a command for Claude Code from Amey-Thakur/AI-SKILLS. It costs 14 tokens per session (301 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A comparison of several options against criteria that matter in a specific situation, ending with one recommendation. It can account for cost, risk, speed, reversibility, and ongoing maintenance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare tools, architectures, vendors, or strategies, identify dominated options, recommend one choice, and define when another option would become better.
Why use it?
It makes the decision criteria explicit and requires specific evidence instead of vague descriptions. Unknown information is marked as something to investigate, and the strongest case against the recommendation is addressed.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to compare tools, architectures, vendors, or strategies, identify dominated options, recommend one choice, and define when another option would become better.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/amey-thakur/ai-skills/compare-options
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/Amey-Thakur/AI-SKILLS

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 14 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 301 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 $0.00014 $0.00301
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00151
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00060
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00030

Measured 12d ago against content hash 0d46b50e2605, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

compare-options 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 12d 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.

commands/compare-options.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

You were invoked as a slash command. The user's input:

$ARGUMENTS

Use that input to fill this prompt's variables (take the main content, topic, or task from it; ask only if a required value is missing and not supplied), then follow the prompt exactly.


Compare these options for the situation described, and recommend one.

Options: {options}

Context and constraints: {context}

Method:

  1. Derive 3-6 criteria from the context: the ones that would actually change the decision (cost, risk, time-to-value, reversibility, maintenance burden). State them and why each matters here.
  2. Assess every option against every criterion with specifics, not adjectives: what it costs, what breaks, what it forecloses. Where you lack the information, write "unknown: would need [what]" instead of guessing.
  3. Note any option that is dominated (worse on everything) and set it aside explicitly.
  4. Recommendation: one option, the two or three reasons that decide it, the strongest argument against it answered honestly, and the condition under which the runner-up becomes the better choice.

Rules: no ties, no "it depends" endings without saying on WHAT it depends and which answer follows from each case.

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. 12d ago First seen · 38 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 0d46b50e2605

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compare-options is a command published in the GitHub repository Amey-Thakur/AI-SKILLS (7 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 301 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.