Prompt Repetition Optimization

Prompt Repetition Optimization is a skill for Claude Code from danielraffel/generous-corp-marketplace. It costs 68 tokens per session (1,889 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for repeating a prompt twice in certain language-model tasks. It is aimed mainly at tasks that retrieve or transform information without extended step-by-step reasoning, such as multiple-choice questions or finding items in lists.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when optimizing non-reasoning prompts, especially multiple-choice questions, list navigation, fact retrieval, or short basic transformations.
Why use it?
It explains when prompt repetition may improve results and when it is unlikely to help. The technique changes the prompt format without changing the requested output format.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the prompt-repeater plugin — 1 skill, 3 commands, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it when optimizing non-reasoning prompts, especially multiple-choice questions, list navigation, fact retrieval, or short basic transformations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/danielraffel/generous-corp-marketplace/prompt-repetition-optimization
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add danielraffel/generous-corp-marketplace --skill prompt-repetition-optimization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielraffel/generous-corp-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install prompt-repeater, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 3 commands, 1 hook.

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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,889 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 $0.00068 $0.01889
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00945
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00378
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00189

Measured 12d ago against content hash e0624444898c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Prompt Repetition Optimization 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 12d 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/prompt-repeater/skills/prompt-repetition-optimization/SKILL.md · 226 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 226 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Prompt Repetition Optimization

Overview

Prompt repetition is a simple yet effective technique discovered by Google Research that improves LLM performance on non-reasoning tasks by enabling each prompt token to attend to every other prompt token. The technique transforms <QUERY> into <QUERY><QUERY>, allowing bidirectional attention in causal language models.

Key benefits:

  • 47 wins, 0 losses across major models (Gemini, GPT, Claude, DeepSeek)
  • No latency penalty (only affects parallelizable prefill stage)
  • No output format changes
  • Safe even with reasoning tasks (neutral to slightly positive)

When to Use Prompt Repetition

Best for Non-Reasoning Tasks

Apply prompt repetition to tasks that don't require complex multi-step reasoning:

Multiple Choice Questions:

  • Especially effective with "options-first" format (options before question)
  • Example: "A, B, C, D... Which is correct?"

List Navigation:

  • Finding Nth item in a list
  • Finding item between two other items
  • Example: "What's the 25th name?" or "What appears between X and Y?"

Simple Queries:

  • Fact retrieval
  • Basic transformations
  • Short prompts (under ~500 characters)

Pattern Recognition:

  • Simple classification tasks
  • Basic matching operations

Less Effective for Reasoning Tasks

Avoid emphasizing repetition for tasks requiring complex reasoning:

  • Multi-step planning
  • Complex debugging
  • Deep analysis requiring chain-of-thought
  • Tasks already using "think step by step"

Note: Prompt repetition is neutral to slightly positive even with reasoning enabled (5 wins, 1 loss, 22 neutral), so it's safe to use but provides minimal benefit.

How to Apply Prompt Repetition

Recognize Opportunities

When user submits a prompt, evaluate if it's a non-reasoning task:

Non-reasoning indicators:

  • Short, direct questions
  • Multiple choice format
  • List-based queries
  • Fact retrieval requests
  • Simple classification

Reasoning indicators:

  • "Plan", "design", "analyze"
  • Multi-step requirements
  • Complex debugging
  • Already using chain-of-thought

Read the full file on GitHub · 226 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. 12d ago First seen · 226 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A e0624444898c

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Prompt Repetition Optimization is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielraffel/generous-corp-marketplace (11 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 1,889 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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