genius

genius is a skill for Claude Code from donald-ada/workinggenius. It costs 30 tokens per session (1,352 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow map for managing work through six stages, from questioning and generating ideas to choosing, building, and verifying the result. It records each project's current stage in files under .genius/.

In plain words
What is it for?
Routing work to the appropriate command, tracking progress between sessions, and checking that completed work has evidence behind it.
Why use it?
It makes the next action clear and exposes stages or types of thinking that may have been skipped.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the workinggenius plugin — 23 skills, 7 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Routing work to the appropriate command, tracking progress between sessions, and checking that completed work has evidence behind it.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/donald-ada/workinggenius/genius
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 donald-ada/workinggenius --skill genius
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/donald-ada/workinggenius

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install workinggenius, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 23 skills, 7 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,352 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 $0.00030 $0.01352
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00541
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00270
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00135

Measured 1mo ago against content hash a61f678f9fb1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

genius 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 1mo 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/genius/SKILL.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The Genius Map

The map answers three questions: where every piece of work stands, what runs next, and which genius went missing when something feels wrong. It routes; it never builds.

The flow

Every piece of work travels through six geniuses, in three pairs:

Stage Genius Command Skipping it looks like
Ideation Wonder — question the work /wonder building exactly the wrong thing
Invention — generate options runs inside /discern anchoring on the first idea
Activation Discernment — judge and choose /discern plausible-but-wrong ships
Galvanizing — mobilize into slices /galvanize a plan nobody can start
Implementation Enablement — build with tight loops /enable flying blind until a big-bang reveal
Tenacity — finish with evidence /tenacity "done" that isn't

State lives in .genius/<slug>/<slug>.md — the bounded snapshot a cold session reads whole — with its history in a log shaped as a tree (<slug>.log.md, one branch per stage or slice under log/) and what binds the unbuilt slices in CONTRACT.md, beside it (the genius-file skill owns the discipline). Each stage ends when its one threshold is honestly true; each is a command the user types — Invention excepted, which runs inside /discern because nothing in it waits on the user — and one they don't type simply doesn't run — its absent section is the record. Four layers run underneath: the domain-glossary skill keeps the shared language in CONTEXT.md, the decision-record skill keeps the index of settled decisions in .genius/DECIDED.md, the blindspot skill hunts the unknowns the stages can't reach, and the errata skill corrects what any of them got wrong.

What to do when invoked

The counts first, taken as this command was invoked: the block below is replaced by the instrument's output before you read it, and where a policy notice shows instead (shell injection disabled), run it before saying a number, because a number said without one is a guess:

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 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. 1mo ago Changed · +11 lines a61f678f9fb1
  2. 1mo ago Changed bfe3df125f9f
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  5. 2mo ago Changed 5eaec40659fa
  6. 2mo ago First seen · 38 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 3bf619b66500

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genius is a skill published in the GitHub repository donald-ada/workinggenius (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 1,352 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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