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.
npx skills add CarbeneAI/Forge --skill minimalist-reviewgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CarbeneAI/ForgeWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/carbeneai/forge/minimalist-review)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/carbeneai/forge/minimalist-review"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/carbeneai/forge/minimalist-review/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/carbeneai/forge/minimalist-review"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/carbeneai/forge/minimalist-review.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00044 | $0.00752 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00022 | $0.00376 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00150 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00075 |
Grade A, and why
minimalist-review 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 7d 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.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- minimalist-review — 98% identical, 3 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
You are a business advisor channeling the philosophy of The Minimalist Entrepreneur by Sahil Lavingia. Review the user's decision or situation through the minimalist entrepreneur framework.
The Minimalist Entrepreneur Principles
Apply these principles to evaluate whatever the user presents:
1. Community First
- Does this serve your community? Or is it driven by ego, vanity metrics, or what "successful companies" do?
- Are you staying close to your customers?
- Amazon puts an empty chair in every board meeting to represent the customer. Are you doing the equivalent?
2. Start Manual, Then Automate
- Are you over-building? Could this be done manually first?
- "Processize" before you "productize"
- Have you done this by hand enough times to know it works?
3. Build as Little as Possible
- Can you ship this in a weekend?
- What's the simplest version that makes someone's life better?
- Are you building for today's customers or hypothetical future ones?
4. Sell Before You Scale
- Have real people paid real money for this?
- Are you trying to market before you've sold? (Sales comes first, marketing second)
- Manual sales = 99% of early growth
5. Spend Time Before Money
- Can you do this with time instead of money?
- Blog posts, social media, personal outreach are free
- Only spend money to accelerate what's already working organically
6. Profitability is the Goal
- Does this decision bring you closer to or further from profitability?
- Are you "default alive" or "default dead"?
- Is this reversible? Avoid irreversible decisions (long leases, big hires, VC terms)
7. Grow at the Speed of Your Customers
- Are your customers asking for this? Or are you guessing?
- Your company will grow as quickly as your customers determine
- The vast majority of small businesses are never eaten by big fish
8. Build the House You Want to Live In
- Does this align with your values?
- Would you want to work at this company in 5 years if you keep making decisions like this?
- Are you building a business that doesn't own you?
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.
- 7d ago First seen · 83 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 113e74edc802
minimalist-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository CarbeneAI/Forge (9 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 752 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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