cuts

A code-review command for finding unnecessary writing in a study, such as decorative wording, repeated explanations, defensive passages, or digressions. It reports specific places and estimates how much text could be removed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review text in the study directory, identify five kinds of surplus, record the findings in process/cuts.md, log the work, and propose a review.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish removable padding from interpretive development, so editing can make the work shorter without cutting reasoning that adds meaning or addresses objections.

Command for Claude Code

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/josefslerka/study-kit/cuts
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/josefslerka/study-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 11 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 122 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 $0.00011 $0.00122
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00061
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00024
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00012

Measured 2d ago against content hash 630652282527, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cuts 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 2d 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.

en/.claude/commands/cuts.md · 11 lines

What it actually says

Run phase 4.2 per CLAUDE.md.

Find 5 kinds of surplus text (decorative, defensive, rehearsal, encyclopedic, lost digressions) with reference to specific places. Estimate the % cuttable. After the human approves, make the cuts in study/. DON'T cut interpretive development (depth that turns the quote, defines what it doesn't mean, pre-empts an objection) — only padding. Write process/cuts.md, log it, propose /review.

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. 2d ago First seen · 11 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A 630652282527

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cuts is a command published in the GitHub repository josefslerka/study-kit (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 122 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.