terse

terse is a command for coding agents from sifxprime/kodelyth-ecc. It costs 31 tokens per session (352 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reply-setting command that shortens the assistant's normal written responses at several compression levels.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you want brief, fragment-style answers, or turn it off to restore normal responses.
Why use it?
It reduces the amount of text you need to read and the output tokens used, while keeping code, commands, paths, and URLs unchanged.

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/sifxprime/kodelyth-ecc/terse
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sifxprime/kodelyth-ecc

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Per session 31 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 352 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 $0.00031 $0.00352
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00176
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00070
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00035

Measured yesterday against content hash 31e4072a7afd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

terse 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 yesterday.

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/terse.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

/terse — output compression

Activate the terse-mode skill and set its dial.

Usage

  • /terse — set to full (default)
  • /terse lite — light trim
  • /terse full — telegram-style fragments
  • /terse ultra — maximum compression
  • /terse off — restore normal voice

Instructions to the assistant

Read the arguments passed to this command. Set the terse-mode level:

  • If args are empty → use full
  • If args are one of lite / full / ultra / off → use that
  • Any other value → answer briefly with the valid options and do not change the level

For the rest of this session (until /terse off or a new /terse <level>):

  1. Load the rules from skills/terse-mode/SKILL.md
  2. Apply the level's compression rules to every reply
  3. Preserve byte-exact: code blocks, inline code, shell commands, error text, URLs, paths, identifiers, numbers, versions
  4. Never translate — keep the user's language
  5. Never compress memory captures, tool outputs, or file contents

Confirm activation in one line:

terse: <level> — code and commands preserved byte-exact

Then answer whatever the user asks — in the new voice.

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. yesterday First seen · 41 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 31e4072a7afd

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terse is a command published in the GitHub repository sifxprime/kodelyth-ecc (11 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 352 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 2026-09-03.