modify

An idea-generation method that explores changing an existing thing, making parts larger or stronger, and making them smaller, simpler, or less frequent.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to rethink a product, process, service, or other subject by changing its form, quality, size, speed, frequency, intensity, or complexity.
Why use it?
It helps when an idea has stalled or when you need to examine more than one kind of change. The structured prompts turn vague brainstorming into specific modifications and possible results.

Command

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/neurofoo/agent-skills/modify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/neurofoo/agent-skills
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 607 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 $0.00607
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00303
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00121
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00061

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8189e441d275, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

modify 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.

scamper/commands/modify.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MODIFY / MAGNIFY / MINIMIZE

Generate ideas by asking what can be changed, enlarged, reduced, or altered in form or quality.

Instructions

Explore modifications across all dimensions—size, speed, frequency, quality, intensity. Consider both amplifying and reducing.

Output Format

Subject: [What we're exploring]


MODIFY: Change Form or Quality

Element Modification Result
[element] [change color, shape, texture, etc.] [effect]
[element] [change color, shape, texture, etc.] [effect]
[element] [change color, shape, texture, etc.] [effect]

MAGNIFY: Make Bigger, More, Stronger

Element Magnification Possibility
[element] Make it bigger [what happens]
[element] Make it more frequent [what happens]
[element] Make it stronger/faster [what happens]
[element] Exaggerate it [what happens]
[element] Add more value [what happens]

10x Question: What if we made [element] 10 times bigger/better?


MINIMIZE: Make Smaller, Less, Simpler

Element Minimization Possibility
[element] Make it smaller [what happens]
[element] Make it less frequent [what happens]
[element] Make it lighter/slower [what happens]
[element] Simplify it [what happens]
[element] Reduce cost [what happens]

1/10 Question: What if we made [element] 1/10th the size/cost/time?


Dimension Exploration

Dimension Modify Up Modify Down
Size [bigger version] [smaller version]
Speed [faster version] [slower version]
Frequency [more often] [less often]
Price [premium version] [budget version]
Duration [longer version] [shorter version]
Complexity [fuller version] [minimal version]

Prompting Questions

  • What if we exaggerated [feature]?
  • What if we made it twice as fast?
  • What if it cost 10x more? 10x less?
  • What if we made it for power users?
  • What if we made the simplest possible version?
  • What can be streamlined or condensed?

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 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. 2d ago First seen · 83 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 8189e441d275

Subscribe to this mod's changes

modify is a command published in the GitHub repository neurofoo/agent-skills (111 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 607 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 2026-08-30.