"biz-toc"

"biz-toc" is a skill for Claude Code from charlieviettq/awesome-agent-skill. It costs 83 tokens per session (1,199 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of biz-toc, MIT.

A process-improvement method based on the idea that one bottleneck limits the output of the whole system. Its five steps focus on finding, using, and increasing that limiting point.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify bottlenecks, increase throughput, manage queues and work in progress, and schedule work around limited capacity.
Why use it?
It prevents teams from spending effort on parts of a process that do not limit results. This directs improvement work toward the constraint that matters most.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to identify bottlenecks, increase throughput, manage queues and work in progress, and schedule work around limited capacity.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/charlieviettq/awesome-agent-skill/biz-toc
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 charlieviettq/awesome-agent-skill --skill biz-toc
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/charlieviettq/awesome-agent-skill

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/charlieviettq/awesome-agent-skill/biz-toc"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/charlieviettq/awesome-agent-skill/biz-toc.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,199 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 94% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00083 $0.01199
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00600
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00240
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00120

Measured 9d ago against content hash ae0050c1608b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

"biz-toc" 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.

Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to biz-toc — 8 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude/skills/biz-toc/SKILL.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Theory of Constraints (TOC)

Overview

TOC asserts that every system has at least one constraint (bottleneck) that limits total throughput. Improving non-bottleneck processes does NOT improve system output �� only improving the bottleneck does. The Five Focusing Steps provide a systematic method to find and manage constraints.

Framework

IRON LAW: The System Is Only as Strong as Its Weakest Link

Improving a non-bottleneck process is a WASTE of resources — it produces
more work-in-progress that piles up at the bottleneck. Before optimizing
any process, verify it IS the bottleneck. If it's not, stop.

The Five Focusing Steps

  1. IDENTIFY the constraint — Find the bottleneck (highest utilization, longest queue, most WIP accumulation)
  2. EXPLOIT the constraint — Maximize throughput at the bottleneck without adding resources (reduce downtime, eliminate waste at this step, ensure it never starves for input)
  3. SUBORDINATE everything else — Pace all other processes to the bottleneck's rhythm. Non-bottlenecks should NOT run at full capacity.
  4. ELEVATE the constraint — If exploitation isn't enough, invest to increase bottleneck capacity (add equipment, hire, outsource)
  5. REPEAT — After elevating, the constraint may shift to another process. Go back to Step 1.

Drum-Buffer-Rope (DBR) Scheduling

Element What It Is Purpose
Drum The bottleneck's pace Sets the rhythm for the entire system
Buffer Time buffer before the bottleneck Ensures the bottleneck never starves for work
Rope Signal to release work at the start Controls WIP by tying input rate to bottleneck pace

Throughput Accounting (TOC Financial Metrics)

Metric Definition
Throughput (T) Revenue - Truly Variable Costs (materials only)
Investment (I) Money tied up in the system (inventory, equipment)
Operating Expense (OE) All other costs to run the system
Net Profit T - OE
ROI (T - OE) / I

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 100 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A ae0050c1608b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

"biz-toc" is a skill published in the GitHub repository charlieviettq/awesome-agent-skill (26 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 1,199 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to biz-toc, differing in 8 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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