analyze-skill

analyze-skill is a command for Claude Code from athola/claude-night-market. It costs 21 tokens per session (572 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that measures the complexity of a skill file and suggests ways to split it into smaller sections that load progressively.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect a skill file or directory, review line and word counts, headings, code blocks, estimated token use, and decide whether modularization is needed.
Why use it?
It helps identify skill files that are too long or dense and shows where their instructions may be reorganized.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the abstract plugin — 16 skills, 17 commands, 5 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to inspect a skill file or directory, review line and word counts, headings, code blocks, estimated token use, and decide whether modularization is needed.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add athola/claude-night-market
Claude Code
/plugin install abstract

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install abstract, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 17 commands, 5 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 21 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 572 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 $0.00021 $0.00572
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00286
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00114
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00057

Measured 12d ago against content hash e8b077938a14, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analyze-skill 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.

plugins/abstract/commands/analyze-skill.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Analyze Skill Complexity

Analyzes a skill file for complexity metrics and provides modularization recommendations based on the modular-skills framework.

When To Use

Use this command when you need to:

  • Assessing skill file complexity before adding content
  • Planning modularization strategies
  • Checking if a skill needs to be split
  • Validating progressive disclosure design

When NOT To Use

Avoid this command if:

  • Evaluating skill quality - use /skills-eval instead
  • Estimating token usage only - use /estimate-tokens instead
  • Creating new skills - use /create-skill instead

Usage

# Analyze specific skill file
/analyze-skill skills/my-skill/SKILL.md

# Analyze skill directory
/analyze-skill skills/my-skill

# Analyze current directory (if in a skill folder)
/analyze-skill .

What It Analyzes

The analyzer evaluates several complexity dimensions:

Metrics Collected

  • Line count: Total lines vs threshold (default: 150)
  • Word/character count: Content density indicators
  • Theme sections: Number of # level headings
  • Subsections: Number of ## level headings
  • Code blocks: Embedded code examples
  • Estimated tokens: Context window impact

Recommendations Generated

  • MODULARIZE: File exceeds thresholds, should be split
  • CONSIDER: Approaching limits, evaluate for future growth
  • OK: Within acceptable complexity bounds

Examples

/analyze-skill skills/modular-skills/SKILL.md
# Output:
# === Analysis for: skills/modular-skills/SKILL.md ===
# Line count: 180 (threshold: 150)
# Estimated tokens: 1,847
# === Recommendations ===
# MODULARIZE: File exceeds threshold (180 > 150)
# GOOD: Token usage in optimal range

/analyze-skill skills/skills-eval --verbose
# Includes detailed section breakdown

Integration with Modular Skills

This command is the first step in the modular-skills workflow:

  1. Analyze → Use this command to assess complexity
  2. Design → Plan module structure based on recommendations
  3. Estimate → Use /estimate-tokens for token budgeting
  4. Validate → Use /skills-eval for quality checks

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 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. 12d ago First seen · 86 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A e8b077938a14

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analyze-skill is a command published in the GitHub repository athola/claude-night-market (337 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 572 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 2026-08-30.