faab-bidding

faab-bidding is a skill for Claude Code from derekrbreese/fantasy-football-skills. It costs 127 tokens per session (2,827 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A fantasy-football tool that calculates one specific blind waiver bid. A blind bid is an offer made without seeing other managers’ offers, usually from a shared free-agent budget.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when sizing a bid, deciding whether to spend waiver priority, or judging a player’s value from recent winning bids and remaining opportunities.
Why use it?
It helps decide how much of your remaining budget or waiver priority to risk on a player, based on your league’s rules and past results.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the waiver-wire plugin — 3 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when sizing a bid, deciding whether to spend waiver priority, or judging a player’s value from recent winning bids and remaining opportunities.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/derekrbreese/fantasy-football-skills/faab-bidding
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 derekrbreese/fantasy-football-skills --skill faab-bidding
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/derekrbreese/fantasy-football-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install waiver-wire, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 127 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,827 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 $0.00127 $0.02827
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.01413
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00565
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00283

Measured 12d ago against content hash 46cdebbe3e0a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

faab-bidding 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/waiver-wire/skills/faab-bidding/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.

Waiver Bid Sizing

Produce a specific number, not a range and a shrug. Bids are a function of four things: what class of player this is, how contested the claim will be, how much budget remains against how many chances remain, and what this league actually pays.

Step 1: Load context

Read leagues.md from the project root first — the fields that matter here are the waiver system (FAAB, continual rolling priority, weekly reverse-standings priority, or a hybrid with FCFS phases), league size, scoring (superflex especially), and playoff weeks. If the file is missing or blank, ask for them and suggest running fantasy-league-setup:league-config. If more than one league is defined, use the one marked (default).

Then ask for: remaining budget or current claim priority, the target player, and — highest leverage — recent winning bids or claim results in this league (most platforms show a transaction/bid history page). Also ask whether $0 bids are allowed, whether the platform processes claims conditionally (only one of your claims can win) or independently (every winning claim processes, so three wins can drain the budget), and whether post-waiver players become FCFS free agents immediately or after a second lock.

For any injury- or demotion-driven role change, pin the advice to an as-of timestamp and cite the evidence used. Before recommending a major bid, all-in priority burn, or a cut needed to fund the move, confirm both:

  • An official status change: team transaction, practice report, inactive list, coach quote, or platform status.
  • A second credible source confirming the role impact: beat reporter, national news desk, or depth-chart/practice report follow-up.

If that verification is missing or conflicting, keep the recommendation provisional: lower the aggression, avoid destructive cuts tied only to the rumor, and say to wait for waivers to process or for the next official report.

Live platform source routing. Honor a browser the user explicitly names. If leagues.md records a Preferred browser, use that when it has a signed-in session for the platform. Otherwise use any authenticated browser the current assistant already has. For Yahoo league data, prefer an authenticated browser over a connector. If a Yahoo connector returns 403, unauthorized, or an equivalent authorization failure, do not retry it during the same task. For non-Yahoo platforms, use a purpose-built connector when it is available and returns complete current data; otherwise use the browser. Read league rosters, the free-agent pool, standings, transaction history, and any rankings site directly instead of making the user paste them. Timestamp live data and name the source. The session rules from roster-ops apply unchanged: the user's session is the auth; never ask for, read, store, or type credentials; use the visible UI rather than platform endpoints; and stop and hand back on any login, 2FA, captcha, consent, or unusual-activity screen. If no usable live source exists, state the access gap and do not fabricate league-specific analysis.

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 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. 12d ago First seen · 100 lines · 127 tokens per session scan A 46cdebbe3e0a

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faab-bidding is a skill published in the GitHub repository derekrbreese/fantasy-football-skills (4 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 127 tokens to every session and 2,827 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.

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