mode

mode is a command for coding agents from FerroxLabs/ijfw. It costs 22 tokens per session (315 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for switching IJFW between workflow modes such as fast, deep, manual, and brutal. The modes change how much automation, model effort, and explanation the system uses.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps set the session's operating style with commands such as `/mode fast`, `/mode deep`, or `/mode manual`.
Why use it?
It lets developers choose quicker execution for routine work or more checking and explanation for complex tasks.

Command

Part of the ijfw plugin — 34 skills, 22 commands, 37 agents, 6 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

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/ferroxlabs/ijfw/mode
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FerroxLabs/ijfw

Or install ijfw, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 34 skills, 22 commands, 37 agents, 6 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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 mode

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/ferroxlabs/ijfw/mode.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/ferroxlabs/ijfw/mode)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/ferroxlabs/ijfw/mode"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/ferroxlabs/ijfw/mode.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 22 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 315 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 5.1 $0.00022 $0.00315
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00158
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00063
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00032

Measured today against content hash 59a42e9b4a06, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mode 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 today.

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.

claude/commands/mode.md · 31 lines

What it actually says

Switch the active IJFW mode. Acknowledge with one line.

smart (default): Auto-routes models, effort, and verbosity by task type. Routine → scout/builder, terse. Complex → architect, thorough. Teaching → normal verbosity.

fast: Maximum efficiency. Cheapest viable model. Low effort. Ultra-terse. Aggressive compaction. For blasting through known tasks.

deep: Maximum quality. Best model. High/max effort. Self-verification on. Plan-then-execute enforced. Normal verbosity. For architecture, security, complex debug.

manual: All IJFW automation off. User controls /model, /effort, verbosity. Output rules still active but overridable. For power users.

brutal: Caveman mode -- 1-sentence answers, code-only, no explanation unless user asks "why" or "explain". Reasoning/thinking preserved, output constrained. Sets IJFW_TERSE_ONLY=1. For blast-mode task execution.

Natural language triggers also work:

  • "go fast" / "speed mode" → fast
  • "think deeper" / "be thorough" → deep
  • "back to normal" / "auto" → smart
  • "be brutal" / "caveman mode" / "ultra-terse" → brutal

Mode persists until changed or session ends.

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. today First seen · 31 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 59a42e9b4a06

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mode is a command published in the GitHub repository FerroxLabs/ijfw (210 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 315 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 2026-09-05.

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