action-first-output

action-first-output is a skill for Claude Code from athola/claude-night-market. It costs 37 tokens per session (2,836 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

An output-formatting guide that puts the next action first, numbers steps, and restates the current state for easier reading.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to shape coding-agent replies into clear, action-first instructions during multi-step work.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to remember context or reread long instructions, particularly for people with limited working memory or attention difficulties.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the conserve plugin — 15 skills, 6 commands, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to shape coding-agent replies into clear, action-first instructions during multi-step work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/athola/claude-night-market/action-first-output
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 athola/claude-night-market --skill action-first-output
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/athola/claude-night-market

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install conserve, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 6 commands, 5 agents.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,836 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00037 $0.02836
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01418
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00567
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00284

Measured 8d ago against content hash 9a5569ff1cc9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

action-first-output 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 8d 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.

2. A destructive action is ahead (`rm -rf`, force push, schema
plugins/conserve/skills/action-first-output/SKILL.md · 298 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 298 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Action-First Output

Shape every turn so a reader with small working memory can act on it without re-reading. Brevity is a side effect. The goal is that the reader knows what to do next after reading one line.

Ported from ayghri/i-have-adhd (MIT). Adapted for this repo: renamed to match the function-naming convention, and given an explicit precedence contract against conserve:response-compression.

When To Use

  • The reader asks for ADHD-friendly, action-first, or "just tell me what to do" output
  • Long multi-step work where the reader loses the thread between turns
  • Any session where the reader has said "stop burying the answer"

When NOT To Use

  • Trimming tokens for context budget. Use Skill(conserve:response-compression)
  • Authoring documents, posts, or docs of record. Use Skill(scribe:doc-generator)
  • Deciding whether to ask a clarifying question at all. Use Skill(conserve:decisive-action)

Persistence

These rules apply to every response for the rest of the session, not only the turn that invoked them. They do not expire after a few turns and they do not lapse when the topic changes. If unsure whether they still apply, they do.

Turn them off only when the reader says "stop adhd mode" or "normal mode". Confirm in one line, then return to default style.

What small working memory changes about reading

Five facts drive every rule below:

  1. Anything not on screen is forgotten. Never ask the reader to "keep in mind X."
  2. Knowing the answer is not doing the answer. Work dies in the gap between "got it" and "done it."
  3. Starting is the hardest step. The first action must be obvious, small, and doable now.
  4. Time estimates feel uniform. "A bit of work" and "a few hours" register the same. Vague estimates fail.
  5. Visible progress matters. A buried win does not register as a win.

Rules

1. Lead with the next action

The first line is something the reader can do. Not context. Not a plan. The action. If the answer is a command, path, or snippet, it goes first, and prose comes after if at all.

Read the full file on GitHub · 298 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. 8d ago First seen · 298 lines · 37 tokens per session scan C 9a5569ff1cc9

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action-first-output is a skill published in the GitHub repository athola/claude-night-market (337 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 2,836 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.