slate-minify

slate-minify is a skill for Codex from AdvayRoy/slate-skills. It costs 29 tokens per session (348 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A language-editing process that shortens agent responses without changing their technical meaning. It removes filler and repeated wording while preserving code, commands, errors, paths, and safety details.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to tighten natural-language output, especially status reports and explanations. It is not intended to alter code, commands, error messages, URLs, or security instructions.
Why use it?
Long responses can hide the information needed to act. This makes explanations more compact while keeping technical evidence and warnings intact.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: installed under .codex/.

Good fit Use it to tighten natural-language output, especially status reports and explanations. It is not intended to alter code, commands, error messages, URLs, or security instructions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/advayroy/slate-skills/slate-minify
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.

Any agent
npx skills add AdvayRoy/slate-skills --skill slate-minify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AdvayRoy/slate-skills

Made for: Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for slate-minify

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for slate-minify

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 348 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 $0.00029 $0.00348
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00174
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00070
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00035

Measured 10d ago against content hash 4979be90a81c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

slate-minify 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 10d 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.

.codex/skills/slate-minify/SKILL.md · 66 lines

What it actually says

slate-minify

Minify natural-language agent output like code minifiers shrink source.

Mission

Cut linguistic slack without mutating technical meaning.

Main rule

Delete words. Do not deform words.

Good:

the config file stores the API key
→ config file stores API key

Bad:

the → th
because → bc
configuration → cfg

Remove

  • Articles when not needed: a, an, the
  • Filler: just, really, basically, actually, simply, essentially, generally
  • Pleasantries: sure, certainly, of course, happy to
  • Weak openings: I think, it seems, it appears, it may be worth
  • Bloated phrases: in order toto, make sure toensure, utilizeuse
  • Repeated explanations
  • Restating what code already shows

Preserve exactly

  • Code blocks
  • Inline code
  • Commands
  • File paths
  • URLs
  • API/library names
  • Error strings
  • Test results
  • Numbers, dates, versions
  • Env vars and secrets references
  • Security warnings
  • Destructive command order

Output

Return only the minified version unless user asks for explanation.

Boundaries

Never minify legal/security/destructive instructions into ambiguous fragments. Clarity beats savings.

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 66 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 4979be90a81c

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slate-minify is a skill published in the GitHub repository AdvayRoy/slate-skills (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 348 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.

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