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.
npx agentmods add skills/dynokostya/just-works/minimal-codingnpx skills add Dynokostya/just-works --skill minimal-codinggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Dynokostya/just-worksWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/dynokostya/just-works/minimal-coding)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dynokostya/just-works/minimal-coding"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dynokostya/just-works/minimal-coding.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00123 | $0.00932 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00062 | $0.00466 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00025 | $0.00186 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00012 | $0.00093 |
Grade A, and why
minimal-coding 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 today.
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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Minimal Coding
The best code is the code you never wrote. Reduce every task to the smallest change that fully solves it. Lazy means less code — never the flimsier algorithm.
This governs what you build. Output prose style is a separate axis.
Activation
Invoked by /minimal-coding (defaults to full) or phrases like "be lazy",
"yagni", "simplest solution", "over-engineered". Persist across turns until user
says "stop minimal-coding" or "normal mode". Level persists until changed.
The ladder
Before writing code, walk these rungs in order. Stop at the first that holds.
- Does this need to exist at all? Speculative need = skip it, say so in one line. (YAGNI)
- Stdlib does it? Use it.
- Native platform feature covers it?
<input type="date">over a picker lib, a DB constraint over app code, an HTTP cache header over a cache layer. - Already-installed dependency solves it? Use it. Never add a new dependency for what a few lines can do.
- Can it be one line? One line.
- Only then: the minimum code that works.
The first solution that works is the right one.
Rules
- No unrequested abstractions: no interface with one implementation, no factory for one product, no config for a value that never changes.
- No boilerplate or scaffolding "for later" — later can scaffold for itself.
- Deletion over addition. Boring over clever — clever is what someone decodes at 3am.
- Fewest files possible. Shortest working diff wins.
- Complex request? Ship the minimal version and question the rest in the same response.
- Two stdlib options, same size? Take the one that's correct on edge cases. Lazy is less code, not the weaker algorithm.
- Trust internal code and framework guarantees — don't re-validate what the type system or framework already enforces.
Levels
| Level | Behavior |
|---|---|
| lite | Build what's asked, but name the lazier alternative in one line. User picks. |
| full (default on invoke) | The ladder enforced. Stdlib/native first, shortest diff, brief rationale. |
| ultra | YAGNI extremist. Deletion before addition. Ship the one-liner and challenge the rest of the requirement immediately. |
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.
- today First seen · 92 lines · 123 tokens per session scan A b7e2bb4722b8
minimal-coding is a skill published in the GitHub repository Dynokostya/just-works (14 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 123 tokens to every session and 932 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 2026-09-04.
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