model-check

model-check is a command for Claude Code from Jaace/claude-model-advisor. It costs 0 tokens per session (415 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that reviews the current coding session and suggests a Claude model and reasoning effort level.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of a session to classify the task as simple, moderate, or complex and get a model recommendation.
Why use it?
It helps choose an appropriate balance between speed and capability for the work at hand.

Command for Claude Code

Part of the model-advisor plugin — 1 command, 1 hook 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/jaace/claude-model-advisor/model-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Jaace/claude-model-advisor

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install model-advisor, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 command, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 415 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 $0.00000 $0.00415
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00208
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00083
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00042

Measured 3d ago against content hash d2920df1f322, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

model-check 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 3d 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.

.claude-plugin/plugins/model-advisor/commands/model-check.md · 26 lines

What it actually says

Reassess the current session and recommend the right model and effort level.

  1. Briefly summarize what this session has been about so far (1-2 sentences).

  2. Assess complexity on this scale:

    • Simple: lookups, quick edits, factual Q&A, boilerplate
    • Moderate: debugging, refactoring, multi-step coding tasks, explanations
    • Complex: architecture decisions, hard reasoning, math, novel multi-system design
  3. Choose model and effort independently — they are separate axes:

    Model (what capability is needed?):

    • haiku — simple lookups, quick edits, boilerplate, straightforward factual questions; no effort level
    • sonnet — coding, debugging, refactoring, explanations, conceptual questions with some depth
    • opus — novel architecture, hard math, genuinely ambiguous or open-ended design problems

    Effort (how much reasoning is needed? — not applicable for Haiku; max is Opus only):

    • auto — Claude decides effort based on the task (default)
    • low — the shape of the answer is already known; you are retrieving or explaining established knowledge, even if the topic is complex
    • medium — some reasoning or multi-step thinking required; the answer isn't immediately obvious but the path is clear
    • high — genuinely hard reasoning required; the problem is ambiguous, involves hard tradeoffs with no clear answer, requires novel synthesis, or has many interdependent constraints
    • max (Opus 4.6 only) — maximum thinking budget; use for the hardest problems where cost is no concern
  4. Give a one-line rationale.

  5. If a switch is warranted, tell the user to run /model to switch (up/down for model, left/right for effort). To adjust effort level only, they can run /effort [low|medium|high|max|auto].

No tools needed — pure reasoning and output only.

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. 3d ago First seen · 26 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A d2920df1f322

Subscribe to this mod's changes

model-check is a command published in the GitHub repository Jaace/claude-model-advisor (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 415 tokens. 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.