sharpen-prompt

sharpen-prompt is a skill for Claude Code from egorfedorov/claude-context-optimizer. It costs 47 tokens per session (328 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A prompt-rewriting guide that turns a vague request into a clear instruction with a goal, context, scope, constraints, success criteria, and output format.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to improve, check, or rewrite prompts, or to ask one essential question when the required information cannot be inferred.
Why use it?
It reduces back-and-forth by exposing missing information before another assistant attempts the task.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the context-optimizer plugin — 6 skills, 23 commands, 3 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to improve, check, or rewrite prompts, or to ask one essential question when the required information cannot be inferred.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/egorfedorov/claude-context-optimizer/sharpen-prompt
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 egorfedorov/claude-context-optimizer --skill sharpen-prompt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/egorfedorov/claude-context-optimizer

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install context-optimizer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 23 commands, 3 agents, 6 hooks.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 328 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 $0.00047 $0.00328
Opus 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00131
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00066
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00033

Measured yesterday against content hash 43f6f1ede80c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sharpen-prompt 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 yesterday.

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/sharpen-prompt/SKILL.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

Sharpen a prompt

A precise prompt saves the back-and-forth, and the tokens, that a vague one costs. Rewrite the user's prompt so another assistant could do the task right on the first try.

Check what the prompt is missing

  1. Goal: what should exist or be true at the end.
  2. Context: who it's for, what it builds on, what was tried.
  3. Scope: exactly which files, sections, data or part of the problem. Name them.
  4. Constraints: must keep, must avoid, length, tone, tools, deadline.
  5. Done looks like: how to tell it worked: tests pass, a sample output, a checklist.
  6. Output format: a list, a table, a diff, a file, a one-paragraph answer.

Then

  • If you can fill the gaps from the conversation, write the improved prompt in a code block in the user's language. Keep it as short as the task allows, and list in one line what you added and why.
  • If one gap is essential and unknowable, ask that one question instead of guessing. Never ask more than one.
  • Don't do the task itself unless the user asks you to.
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. yesterday First seen · 32 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 43f6f1ede80c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sharpen-prompt is a skill published in the GitHub repository egorfedorov/claude-context-optimizer (116 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 328 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-10-17.

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