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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00024 | $0.01039 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00012 | $0.00519 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00005 | $0.00208 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00104 |
Grade A, and why
break-big-questions-into-steps 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Break Big Questions Into Step-Wise Milestones (AI Skill)
Overview
Asking an AI to execute a massive monolithic request in a single prompt ("Write a complete multi-tenant SaaS application with Stripe billing, PostgreSQL, and React") causes context saturation. The model quickly runs out of output tokens, truncates code, skips critical error handling, and hallucinates dependencies.
The Step-Wise Milestone Decomposition Framework breaks overwhelming projects into sequential, verified atomic phases - ensuring maximum code quality, architectural coherence, and total human control.
Monolithic Megaprompt vs. Milestone Execution
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Monolithic vs. Step-Wise Flow │
│ │
│ Monolithic Prompt ("Build the entire app now"): │
│ • Token exhaustion $\rightarrow$ truncated code files │
│ • Skipped error handling and placeholder comments │
│ • If a bug occurs at step 1, the entire app fails │
│ │
│ Step-Wise Execution (3-Milestone Gate): │
│ Phase 1: Architecture & Data Schema (Review & Approve) │
│ │ │
│ Phase 2: Core Backend Logic & API Routes (Test & Validate) │
│ │ │
│ Phase 3: Frontend Integration & UI State (Polish) │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Master Step-Wise Prompt Templates
Pattern 1: The Milestone Roadmapper
Use this at the very beginning of any large project:
I want to build / create [MASSIVE PROJECT].
Do NOT start generating the final code or content yet.
Step 1: Break this entire project down into 3 to 4 sequential, self-contained milestones.
For each milestone, define:
- Objective
- Deliverable
- Definition of Done (how we verify it works before moving to the next milestone)
Conclude by asking for my approval on Milestone 1.
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.
- yesterday Changed · -9 tokens per session a62770eeeb87
- 7d ago First seen · 107 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A c22b61ddb545
break-big-questions-into-steps is a skill published in the GitHub repository alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills (1 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 1,039 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 2026-09-05.
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