smart-sourcing

smart-sourcing is a skill for Claude Code from athola/claude-night-market. It costs 31 tokens per session (1,296 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A sourcing guide that decides when research claims need outside sources, based on their importance and the cost of checking them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before research tasks or when deciding whether a fact, version, API detail, price, or security recommendation needs verification.
Why use it?
It helps avoid both unsupported claims and spending excessive tokens adding citations to basic information.

Skill for Claude Code

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

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

Good fit Use it before research tasks or when deciding whether a fact, version, API detail, price, or security recommendation needs verification.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/athola/claude-night-market/smart-sourcing
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 smart-sourcing
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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README.md
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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,296 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. 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 $0.00031 $0.01296
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00648
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00259
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00130

Measured 9d ago against content hash 10d9db322daf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

smart-sourcing 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 9d 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.

plugins/conserve/skills/smart-sourcing/SKILL.md · 175 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 175 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Smart Sourcing

Intelligent sourcing that requires citations only when the cost is justified by the value of verification.

Philosophy

Full sourcing is prohibitively expensive (10-16x token increase). Smart sourcing targets high-value claims where verification materially improves accuracy.

When to Source

REQUIRE Sources

Claim Type Example Why Source
Version numbers "Python 3.12 added..." Versions change, easy to verify
Performance claims "30% faster than..." Quantitative claims need evidence
Security recommendations "Use bcrypt for..." Security advice must be current
API specifications "The function accepts..." APIs change between versions
Release dates "Released in Q4 2025" Factual, verifiable
Pricing/limits "Free tier allows 1000 requests" Business terms change
Deprecated features "X was removed in version Y" Breaking changes need verification

DO NOT Require Sources

Claim Type Example Why No Source
General concepts "Async improves concurrency" Foundational knowledge
Code examples Demonstrative snippets Illustrative, not factual claims
Opinion/preference "Consider using..." Clearly framed as suggestion
Common knowledge "Git tracks changes" Universal understanding
Logical derivations "Therefore, X implies Y" Reasoning, not factual claim
Syntax "Use def for functions" Language documentation is stable

Decision Framework

Is this a factual claim?
├── No → No source needed
└── Yes → Would being wrong cause harm?
    ├── No (minor inconvenience) → No source needed
    └── Yes → Is verification cost-effective?
        ├── No (>5k tokens for low-value claim) → State uncertainty
        └── Yes → Perform web search, cite source

Implementation

Inline Citations

When sourcing is warranted:

Read the full file on GitHub · 175 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. 9d ago First seen · 175 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 10d9db322daf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

smart-sourcing is a skill published in the GitHub repository athola/claude-night-market (337 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 1,296 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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