effort-control-for-token-intensive-work

effort-control-for-token-intensive-work is a command for Claude Code from runnithan/claudex-setup. It costs 0 tokens per session (303 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for choosing how deeply the model reasons on a task, from faster and lighter work to slower and more careful work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use lower effort for routine edits, higher effort for migrations or complex logic, and /usage to review the cost.
Why use it?
It helps balance response quality, speed, and token use according to the risk and complexity of the change.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the claudex-setup plugin — 3 skills, 21 commands, 6 agents shipped together

Good fit Use lower effort for routine edits, higher effort for migrations or complex logic, and /usage to review the cost.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/runnithan/claudex-setup/effort-control-for-token-intensive-work
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/runnithan/claudex-setup

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claudex-setup, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 21 commands, 6 agents.

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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 303 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 $0.00000 $0.00303
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00151
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00061
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00030

Measured 8d ago against content hash e066c697bb6e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

effort-control-for-token-intensive-work 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.

lessons/commands/effort-control-for-token-intensive-work.md · 25 lines

What it actually says

Use /effort to Match Thinking Depth to Task Risk

TL;DR

/effort sets how deeply the model reasons: low is fast and shallow, the default is high, and extra-high/max are slower but markedly more careful, switch up for risky or complex changes, back down for routine ones, and check the cost with /usage afterwards.

Why it matters

Effort is a per-task dial, not a set-and-forget setting. Running max effort on trivial edits wastes time and tokens; running low effort on intricate logic ships missed edge cases. Deliberately matching the dial to the blast radius of the change gets both speed and care where each belongs.

How to apply

Before a risky change (migrations, auth, concurrency, tricky refactors), run /effort and pick extra-high or max; drop back to the default for everyday work. Pair with /usage after heavy runs to learn what each effort level actually costs on your tasks, so the choice becomes calibrated rather than guessed.

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 · 25 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A e066c697bb6e

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effort-control-for-token-intensive-work is a command published in the GitHub repository runnithan/claudex-setup (1 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 303 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.