tldr

tldr is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from darkroomengineering/cc-settings. It costs 53 tokens per session (2,425 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-analysis tool that maps functions, callers, data movement, and related code without requiring you to read whole files at once.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find who calls a function, what affects it, how data flows through the code, and which parts of a codebase may be affected before a refactor.
Why use it?
It reduces the amount of source code you need to inspect when tracing behavior or estimating the impact of a change. In standalone Codex, it uses focused native searches rather than a separate analysis service.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the darkroom plugin — 37 skills, 10 agents, 4 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/darkroomengineering/cc-settings/tldr
Any agent
npx skills add darkroomengineering/cc-settings --skill tldr
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/darkroomengineering/cc-settings

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install darkroom, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 37 skills, 10 agents, 4 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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.

agentmods badge for tldr

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,425 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00053 $0.02425
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01213
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00485
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00243

Measured 3d ago against content hash d6d84fd66970, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tldr 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 3d 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.

skills/tldr/SKILL.md · 209 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 209 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

TLDR Code Analysis

Standalone Codex fallback

cc-settings does not install the TLDR MCP into standalone Codex. Ignore the Claude context, allowed-tools, and requires frontmatter in that host and keep the task read-only with native tools. Use rg --files to map the tree, rg -n '<symbol|pattern>' for exact references, direct import searches such as rg -n 'from .*<module>|require\(.*<module>', and caller searches for the symbol followed by focused file reads. Use git diff --name-only plus test-name and import searches for change impact.

Do not invoke or claim to have invoked a TLDR MCP in standalone Codex. Report the native searches actually run and their limitations. The remaining workflow is for Claude hosts with the configured TLDR MCP.

Token-efficient codebase analysis behind the tldr MCP server. It returns the symbols, edges, and slices you asked for instead of whole file bodies, so a question that would cost several full reads costs one small structured answer.

No measured savings figure is published here on purpose. cc-settings carried a "~95% fewer tokens" claim for months with no benchmark behind it anywhere in the repo — the kind of number AGENTS.md now forbids (No savings against a run that never happened). To get a real figure, answer the same question both ways and compare the token counts your own session reports.

The engine is provisioned by cc-settings. The tool names below are the stable contract; only the engine behind them changes. Select with CC_CODE_INTEL_ENGINE.

Default: native-ts — a zero-dependency TypeScript-compiler codemap. TS/JS only. Implements structure, tree, extract, arch, imports, importers, calls, context, impact, change_impact. Everything else returns unsupported-by-native-engine, which means the analysis did not run — fall back to Grep, never report it as an empty finding.

Opt-in: CC_CODE_INTEL_ENGINE=llm-tldr — multi-language, plus semantic, dead, diagnostics, slice, cfg, dfg, search. Use it on Rust/Python/Go repos. Selecting it means re-running setup.sh with the variable set (see Prerequisites), not just exporting it. Two caveats, both measured 2026-07-27:

Read the full file on GitHub · 209 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. 3d ago First seen · 209 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A d6d84fd66970

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tldr is a skill published in the GitHub repository darkroomengineering/cc-settings (42 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 2,425 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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