which-effort

which-effort is a command for Claude Code from JordanGrothentic/caliber. It costs 42 tokens per session (288 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that recommends an effort level for a coding task using the project’s Caliber guidance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Showing a short effort-level ladder for a named task and identifying the model used.
Why use it?
It helps choose how much model effort to use instead of making that choice without the required project settings.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Showing a short effort-level ladder for a named task and identifying the model used.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/jordangrothentic/caliber/which-effort
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/JordanGrothentic/caliber

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 42 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 288 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 $0.00042 $0.00288
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00144
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00058
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00029

Measured 8d ago against content hash b6ed16a1bb79, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

which-effort 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 8d 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/which-effort.md · 21 lines

What it actually says

Locate the caliber skill files, trying these locations in order: the project .claude/skills/caliber/, then ~/.claude/skills/caliber/, then a Glob for **/skills/caliber/SKILL.md. Read SKILL.md and models.md from the first location that has them. If they cannot be found, stop and tell the user the caliber skill is not installed (copy skills/caliber from the repo into ~/.claude/skills/ or the project .claude/skills/), and never recommend models, efforts, or prices from memory.

Apply the engine to the task below and produce the effort only ladder exactly as the skill's Entry points section defines for /which-effort; the engine is authoritative. Choose the model to ladder on in this order, and always name which one you used: a model named in the task text, else the session's current model (you know which model you are running as), else the Optimal pick.

Task: $ARGUMENTS

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. 8d ago First seen · 21 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A b6ed16a1bb79

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which-effort is a command published in the GitHub repository JordanGrothentic/caliber (4 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 288 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.