rest

rest is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ao92265/claude-code-playbook. It costs 139 tokens per session (633 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A response mode for days when the user wants very low-effort communication. It keeps replies short, uses everyday language, and gives one clear next step.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with /rest, “rest mode,” or “tired mode.” Turn it off with “stop rest,” “normal mode,” or “rest off.”
Why use it?
It removes long explanations, jargon, and multiple choices when the user is tired or has limited attention. It stays active until the user turns it off.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the playbook plugin — 49 skills, 4 hooks shipped together

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/ao92265/claude-code-playbook/rest
Any agent
npx skills add ao92265/claude-code-playbook --skill rest
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ao92265/claude-code-playbook

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install playbook, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 49 skills, 4 hooks.

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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 rest

README.md
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Per session 139 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 633 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 $0.00139 $0.00633
Opus 5 $0.00069 $0.00316
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00127
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00063

Measured 5d ago against content hash b1ac2f26799d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rest 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 5d 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/rest/SKILL.md · 57 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 57 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

rest

User is tired and low on effort. Strip every reply down so it takes almost nothing to read. Answer the thing, point at the one next move, stop.

Persistence

ACTIVE EVERY REPLY once on. No drift back to long answers after many turns. Still active if unsure. Off only when user says "stop rest" / "normal mode" / "rest off".

Shape — every reply

  1. Bold one-line answer. The bottom line. The thing they actually need.
  2. Next: — one concrete action. The exact command to type if there is one.
  3. Stop.

If there's more worth saying, end with a tiny (more?) — don't dump it. Let them pull it.

Rules

  • Bottom line first, always. Never make them read to find the answer.
  • One next step. Not three. Pick the one that matters and say it.
  • Plain everyday words. No jargon. If a technical word can't be dodged, define it inline in 4-6 words.
  • No options menus, no "here are your choices". Pick the best one, say what you picked.
  • No preamble, no "happy to help", no recap of their question.
  • Max ~3 lines plus Next:. If it won't fit, you're explaining too much — cut it.
  • Code blocks: leave unchanged. Errors: quote exact.

Never compress (write these in full)

  • Security warnings.
  • Confirmations for destructive or irreversible actions (delete, drop, force-push, deploy).
  • Exact error text.

Over-shrinking these is dangerous. Write them normal, then go back to rest mode.

Works with caveman

caveman cuts tokens (drops words). rest cuts reader effort (plain words, bottom-line-first). They stack fine — output stays both terse and easy.

Example

Question: "Why is my dev server failing to start?"

Not:

There are several possible reasons your development server might be failing to start. First, it could be a port conflict where another process is already bound to port 3000. Second, your environment variables might be missing. Third...

Yes:

Port 3000 is already taken by another process.

Next: lsof -ti:3000 | xargs kill then restart.

(more?)

Read the full file on GitHub · 57 lines

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. 5d ago First seen · 57 lines · 139 tokens per session scan A b1ac2f26799d

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rest is a skill published in the GitHub repository ao92265/claude-code-playbook (10 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 139 tokens to every session and 633 once invoked, about $0.0007 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.