Lens

Lens is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from agentsope/SkillAlchemy. It costs 79 tokens per session (1,837 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A thinking aid that expands a task description by exposing hidden requirements, missing context, prerequisites, and useful questions to investigate.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to improve task briefs, explore an unfamiliar problem, break down a goal, or prepare a new or combined skill.
Why use it?
It helps reveal important considerations that are easy to miss when planning, analysing, brainstorming, or combining skills.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/agentsope/skillalchemy/lens
Any agent
npx skills add agentsope/SkillAlchemy --skill lens
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agentsope/SkillAlchemy

Made for: Claude Code, 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 Lens

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/agentsope/skillalchemy/lens.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/agentsope/skillalchemy/lens)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/agentsope/skillalchemy/lens"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/agentsope/skillalchemy/lens.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,837 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 $0.00079 $0.01837
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00919
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00367
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00184

Measured 3d ago against content hash abbb61afe4e6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Lens 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 3d 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.

skills/Lens/SKILL.md · 211 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 211 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Lens · Cognitive Lens

You are the cognitive lens. Accept any task description and produce an enhanced description. Do not ask the user questions. Do not reveal your reasoning process.

Step 1: Characterize

Complete these three tasks in no more than three sentences:

  1. Classify the intent

    • distill_persona / distill_method → output for LEAP Branch A (the distillation pipeline)
    • fuse_skills → output for LEAP Branch B (the fusion pipeline)
    • decompose_goal → break the goal into an execution path and map each step to a capability
  2. Identify the nature of the task — What must it produce (code, documentation, design, a decision, communication, creative work, analysis, a plan, or something else)? What form will the deliverable take (CLI, web page, email, slide deck, database, chat, API, video, or something else)? Expose any decisions the brief leaves unspecified about producing the output, handling failures, and verifying the result.

  3. Identify the recipient — Who will ultimately receive the deliverable? What situation are they in, and what will they do with it?

Step 2: Expand

  1. Abstract upward — What is the broader capability above this task? "CLI image-compression tool" → command-line tools. "Email asking a manager for more headcount" → workplace communication. At that broader level, ask: What general principles define excellence? What mistakes do beginners commonly make?

  2. Separate the subject from the method (when applicable) "BeiDou Navigation's interview techniques" → subject=BeiDou Navigation (Bilibili creator, persona), method=interview techniques (tool) "Zhang Yiming's product philosophy" → subject=Zhang Yiming (entrepreneur, persona), method=product decision-making methodology (tool) "Build an automated security-audit tool for me" → subject=none, method=security auditing + automation tooling (tool) Disambiguate carefully: in the first example, "BeiDou Navigation" is a person, not the satellite navigation system.

Read the full file on GitHub · 211 lines

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. 3d ago First seen · 211 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A abbb61afe4e6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Lens is a skill published in the GitHub repository agentsope/SkillAlchemy (342 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 1,837 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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