insight-assess

insight-assess is a skill for Claude Code from allemaar/open-skills. It costs 81 tokens per session (1,167 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A structured way to evaluate a decision, approach, option, or implementation. It examines the subject from several relevant angles and produces a recommendation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Assessing viability, pros and cons, impact, quality, implementation choices, and architectural directions through `/assess`.
Why use it?
It helps turn a vague choice into a clear comparison by gathering context, weighing trade-offs, and checking whether the subject is workable.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the open-skills plugin — 70 skills shipped together

Good fit Assessing viability, pros and cons, impact, quality, implementation choices, and architectural directions through /assess.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/allemaar/open-skills/insight-assess
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 allemaar/open-skills --skill insight-assess
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/allemaar/open-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install open-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 70 skills.

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.

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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,167 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 $0.00081 $0.01167
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00583
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00233
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00117

Measured 12d ago against content hash f60e24f49cae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

insight-assess 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 12d 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/insight-assess/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/assess

Structured evaluation of an approach, decision, or implementation — assess viability across multiple dimensions and deliver a clear recommendation.

Structured execution spec: protocol.yon. Read it for the canonical rules and step sequence; this file is explanation. The two must stay in sync — if you edit one, update the other and refresh the @STAMP date.

Decision Support Protocol — convergent evaluation. /insight-explore generates alternatives (divergent). /insight-assess evaluates them (convergent). /insight-critique reviews outputs (reactive). Three complementary tools.

Phase 1 — Frame the Decision

Identify what is being assessed: a specific approach, a decision between options, an implementation pattern, or an architectural direction.

Load relevant context — files, docs, KIs, skills. Define what we are optimizing for and the constraints.

Gate: cannot assess without a clear subject. If the decision cannot be framed, ask for clarification before proceeding.

Phase 2 — Dimensional Analysis

Evaluate across all relevant dimensions. Skip dimensions that don't apply.

Pros & cons — concrete advantages and disadvantages. Cite actual code, dependencies, or patterns. No vague generalizations. If comparing multiple options, do side-by-side.

Quality assessment — score STRONG / ADEQUATE / WEAK with justification on:

  • Performance — bundle size, runtime overhead, N+1 queries, render cycles
  • Code quality — DRY violations, coupling, testability, readability
  • Developer experience — API ergonomics, debugging ease, onboarding friction
  • Maintainability — upgrade path, community support, lock-in risk

Impact assessment — map and classify overall impact LOW / MEDIUM / HIGH:

  • Blast radius — packages/apps/files
  • Migration effort — if replacing something
  • Breaking changes — if any
  • Learning curve — for the team
  • Future flexibility — does this open or close doors?

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 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. 12d ago First seen · 102 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A f60e24f49cae

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insight-assess is a skill published in the GitHub repository allemaar/open-skills (14 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 1,167 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.