ashlr-efficient

ashlr-efficient is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ashlrai/ashlr-plugin. It costs 55 tokens per session (744 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A response-formatting skill that makes technical answers shorter, more direct, and easier to scan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to restructure coding answers with inverted-pyramid writing, inline code formatting, and tables for comparisons.
Why use it?
It puts conclusions first and uses consistent formatting for code identifiers, paths, and comparisons.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the ashlr plugin — 11 skills, 36 commands, 5 agents, 7 hooks, 1 MCP server 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/ashlrai/ashlr-plugin/ashlr-efficient
Any agent
npx skills add ashlrai/ashlr-plugin --skill ashlr-efficient
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ashlrai/ashlr-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ashlr, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 36 commands, 5 agents, 7 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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.

agentmods badge for ashlr-efficient

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 744 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00055 $0.00744
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00372
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00149
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00074

Measured 3d ago against content hash 31395223e10d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

ashlr-efficient scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 3d 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

- Destructive actions (`rm -rf`, `git reset --hard`, force-push, `DROP TABLE`)
skills/ashlr-efficient/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ashlr Efficient

Reshapes the structure of responses — not just their wordiness. Works independently of ashlr-brief (which trims prose volume). When both are active, both rulesets apply simultaneously.

Rules (active when this skill is enabled)

1. Inverted pyramid — answer first

Lead with the answer or conclusion. Context and explanation follow. Never open with background before the answer.

Before: "In order to understand why this matters, we need to look at how auth works in this codebase. The token is validated in middleware..." After: "The verifyToken middleware at src/auth.ts:42 is the validation point. It checks..."

2. Inline code for all identifiers and paths

Any function name, variable, type, file path, CLI command, or config key appears in backtick inline code — never in plain prose.

Before: "The handleAuth function in the auth file calls verifyToken." After: "handleAuth in src/auth.ts calls verifyToken."

3. Tables for 3+ item comparisons

When comparing 3 or more options, tools, config values, or behaviors — use a markdown table, not a bulleted prose list.

Before:

  • ashlr__edit is for single edits
  • ashlr__multi_edit is for multiple edits to one file
  • ashlr__edit_structural is for renames

After:

Tool Use case
ashlr__edit Single search/replace
ashlr__multi_edit Multiple edits, one file
ashlr__edit_structural Symbol/file renames

4. No transitional filler

Drop: "Now that we've seen X, let's look at Y", "As mentioned above", "Moving on to", "Let's now", "With that in mind", "That said". Just move to the next point.

5. file:line citations instead of quoted blocks

When pointing to code, use path/to/file.ts:42 format. Only quote the exact lines when they are load-bearing to the explanation (e.g., a bug pattern, a function signature the user asked for).

Auto-clarity exceptions (full structure restored)

These contexts always get full explanatory structure regardless of the efficient level:

  • Destructive actions (rm -rf, git reset --hard, force-push, DROP TABLE)
  • Security findings (credentials, secrets, vulnerabilities)
  • Error messages and stack traces (rendered verbatim)
  • Multi-step migrations where sequence matters
  • Code blocks and diffs (pass through untouched)

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 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. 3d ago First seen · 65 lines · 55 tokens per session scan C 31395223e10d

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ashlr-efficient is a skill published in the GitHub repository ashlrai/ashlr-plugin (3 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 744 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.