aicrew-terse

A compatibility command for turning terse, compact assistant replies back on. It is deprecated, meaning a newer lean skill should be used instead.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you need short answers, compact fragments, and minimal explanation for the rest of a session.
Why use it?
It supports older workflows that still ask for the /terse command.

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/aksoftcode/aicrew/aicrew-terse
Any agent
npx skills add AKSoftCode/aicrew --skill aicrew-terse
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AKSoftCode/aicrew

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 296 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 $0.00024 $0.00296
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00148
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00059
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00030

Measured 2d ago against content hash fe6b253b5fcb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aicrew-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 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.

codex-skills/aicrew-terse/SKILL.md · 30 lines

What it actually says

Deprecated. Use the lean skill instead. lean enables terse/caveman output and is the canonical verbosity toggle. aicrew-terse is kept for backward compatibility and will not be updated.

aicrew-terse (Codex) — deprecated, use lean

Codex does not support slash commands. Use this skill when the user asks for "/terse" or wants to re-enable lean output.

Preferred: Use the lean skill going forward. lean covers terse-on behavior. Use aicrew-normal to go verbose.

What it does

Re-activates caveman/lean output mode for the rest of this session:

  • Lead with answer or action
  • Short sentences, compact fragments OK
  • No filler, pleasantries, or hedging
  • Verbatim: code blocks, commands, paths, flags, errors, versions
  • Context-economy reads: diff/tree/search before file reads

Source of truth

  • ~/Agents/agents/caveman.md
  • ~/Agents/agents/terse.md
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. 2d ago First seen · 30 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A fe6b253b5fcb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

aicrew-terse is a skill published in the GitHub repository AKSoftCode/aicrew (3 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 296 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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