token-coach

token-coach is a skill for Claude Code from alexgreensh/token-optimizer. It costs 36 tokens per session (3,495 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A coaching skill for planning a token-efficient Claude Code or Codex setup, or checking its health. Tokens are the text units used to process conversations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning a setup or getting a quick token-use health check.
Why use it?
It helps identify likely ways to reduce unnecessary token use without performing the full audit.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the token-optimizer plugin — 5 skills, 2 commands, 1 plugin shipped together

Good fit Planning a setup or getting a quick token-use health check.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alexgreensh/token-optimizer/token-coach
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 alexgreensh/token-optimizer --skill token-coach
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexgreensh/token-optimizer

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install token-optimizer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 2 commands, 1 plugin.

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README.md
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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,495 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00036 $0.03495
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01747
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00699
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00349

Measured 2d ago against content hash d8de713c8e98, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

token-coach scanned grade A with 2 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.

Reads agent configuration directorieslowAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

$(find -L "$HOME/.claude/skills" "$HOME/.claude/plugins/cache" "$HOME/.claude/token-optimizer" "$HOME/.codex/skills" "$HOME/.codex/plugins/cache" "$HOME/.config/opencode/plugins/cache" "$HOME/.config/opencode/plugins" -t

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Enumerates other installed skillslowAgent snooping

Other skills' SKILL.md files reveal prompts, capabilities and secrets that should be invisible to peers.

$(find -L "$HOME/.claude/skills" "$HOME/.claude/plugins/cache" "$HOME/.claude/token-optimizer" "$HOME/.codex/skills" "$HOME/.codex/plugins/cache" "$HOME/.config/opencode/plugins/cache" "$HOME/.config/opencode/plugins" -t

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

cowork/token-optimizer/skills/token-coach/SKILL.md · 212 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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 Changed d8de713c8e98
  2. 9d ago First seen · 212 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 8e5a770ebc25

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token-coach is a skill published in the GitHub repository alexgreensh/token-optimizer (2,199 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 3,495 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 2 findings (reads agent configuration directories, enumerates other installed skills). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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