offload-guidance

offload-guidance is a skill for Claude Code from automagik-dev/genie. It costs 267 tokens per session (2,369 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for sending repository-exploration questions to a separate helper before inspecting many files yourself.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps route questions about unfamiliar codebases, such as finding all handlers for a feature or tracing a process through the repository.
Why use it?
It reduces the amount of code you need to read for broad questions about where things live or how they flow. It also tells you when to verify the helper's answer with your own tools.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR} variable. Also seen: mentions subagents; positional $N argument.

Part of the mikro plugin — 2 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit It helps route questions about unfamiliar codebases, such as finding all handlers for a feature or tracing a process through the repository.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/automagik-dev/genie/offload-guidance
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 automagik-dev/genie --skill offload-guidance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/automagik-dev/genie

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mikro, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 267 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,369 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 $0.00267 $0.02369
Opus 5.5 $0.00107 $0.00948
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00053 $0.00474
Haiku 4.5 $0.00027 $0.00237

Measured today against content hash 19c92affbc63, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

offload-guidance 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 today.

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.

mikro/plugins/claude-code/skills/offload-guidance/SKILL.md · 173 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 173 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Offloading exploration to mikro

The rule

Explore-class question → call mikro_explore-r first. Treat its answer as a lead, not as a finding. Escalate to your own tools the moment any of the three triggers below fires.

explore-r is a first-pass explorer. It failed its parity gate — Round-2 gate: FAIL (docs/parity-explore.md:993), agreeing with round 1's Gate: FAIL (docs/parity-explore.md:595). It ships anyway because a first pass does not have to be a verdict: it has to be cheaper than reading the tree yourself and honest about where it stops. Everything claimed below comes from that report, at the report's own scoping. Read docs/parity-explore.md in the mikro repository before quoting any of it; if it and this file disagree, the report wins.

When to route

Route when all of these hold:

  • The question is about a codebase you have not already read into context.
  • Answering it inline would mean opening many files — a survey, a "where is X handled", a "how does Y flow through this repo", a "what are all the Z".
  • A wrong first answer is recoverable, because you are going to check the citations anyway.

Do not route when:

  • You already have the file in context. Reading it is cheaper and exact.
  • The question is about a specific known line, a diff you just made, or a test you just ran.
  • The answer must be complete — see escalation trigger 3.
  • The work is a mutation. explore-r reads; it does not edit, run your build, or touch git.

How to call it

Tool: mikro_explore-r (namespaced mcp__plugin_mikro_mikro__mikro_explore-r when it comes from this plugin). It explores the project directory the server was started with — the plugin passes --dir ${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}, so that is your project root.

Argument Use
prompt The question. Required in practice.
session_id Continue an earlier call on this same tool. Omit to start fresh.
context Optional path to a file or directory to preload, relative to the project root.

Read the full file on GitHub · 173 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. today First seen · 173 lines · 267 tokens per session scan A 19c92affbc63

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offload-guidance is a skill published in the GitHub repository automagik-dev/genie (346 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 267 tokens to every session and 2,369 once invoked, about $0.0011 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-16.