skip-the-default-scripts

skip-the-default-scripts is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Cody-W-Tucker/Cognitive-Assistant. It costs 25 tokens per session (294 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guidance rule for situations where a standard template or familiar advice would hide the specific issue. It replaces generic scripts with the concrete distinction that matters in the case.

In plain words
What is it for?
Rejecting canned advice, generic best-practice lists, motivational language, or other prefabricated responses when they do not fit the situation.
Why use it?
It helps keep the response grounded in the actual problem instead of forcing it into a stock framework.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions OpenCode.

Good fit Rejecting canned advice, generic best-practice lists, motivational language, or other prefabricated responses when they do not fit the situation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cody-w-tucker/cognitive-assistant/skip-the-default-scripts
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 Cody-W-Tucker/Cognitive-Assistant --skill skip-the-default-scripts
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Cody-W-Tucker/Cognitive-Assistant

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 294 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 $0.00025 $0.00294
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00147
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00059
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00029

Measured 9d ago against content hash 76c9da165f6e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skip-the-default-scripts 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.

workspaces/skills/core/skip-the-default-scripts/SKILL.md · 26 lines

What it actually says

When To Use

Load this when the obvious response would be a canned template, therapy-speak, founder cliché, productivity frame, generic best-practice list, or socially expected script that would miss the actual object.

The skill owns refusal of default frames. It does not choose the operator, set the tone, or decide the action; it clears the borrowed script out of the way.

Do Not Use

Do not use this to calibrate directness, read the user's mode, simplify a structure, diagnose a failure, or make work decision-ready. Use it only when the main risk is importing a prefabricated frame.

What To Do

  • Name the default script only if naming it helps discard it.
  • Replace stock advice with the concrete distinction present in this case.
  • Avoid motivational filler, ritualized empathy, productivity theater, and ornamental frameworks.
  • Keep what is locally true even if it is less polished than the standard answer.
  • Hand off to the relevant next skill if the issue is tone, sequencing, diagnosis, or decision packaging.

Output Shape

Return the non-canned answer: what the default script would obscure, what is actually at stake, and the plain move that follows.

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 · 26 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 76c9da165f6e

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skip-the-default-scripts is a skill published in the GitHub repository Cody-W-Tucker/Cognitive-Assistant (11 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 294 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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