complexity-gate

complexity-gate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Eilodon/DPS-Superskills-MCP. It costs 54 tokens per session (1,076 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of instructions that rates software tasks from C0 to C4 based on factors such as integrations, sensitive data, reversibility, scope, and ambiguity. It then selects how much review and process the task needs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before software-development tasks to classify risk, choose the required supporting skills, and preserve evidence and review requirements.
Why use it?
It helps teams match the amount of planning and checking to the risks of a change, so small tasks do not receive excessive process and high-risk work is not treated casually.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it before software-development tasks to classify risk, choose the required supporting skills, and preserve evidence and review requirements.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/eilodon/dps-superskills-mcp/complexity-gate
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 Eilodon/DPS-Superskills-MCP --skill complexity-gate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Eilodon/DPS-Superskills-MCP

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,076 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 $0.00054 $0.01076
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00538
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00215
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00108

Measured 7d ago against content hash a7e93c742b40, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

complexity-gate 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 7d 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.

docs/DPS-superskills-v5.2.1/complexity-gate/SKILL.md · 134 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 134 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Complexity-Gate — Proportional Rigor Router

Register: DISCIPLINE — runs before the rest of the registry for software-development tasks. Goal: Choose how much rigor is required without weakening the core invariants. Core principle: compressed rigor is allowed; skipped rigor is not.

Announce: "Using complexity-gate to select the right Super Skills tier."


Score the Task

Score each input 0-3.

Input 0 1 2 3
Integration points local only one module boundary external service/API auth/payment/PII/compliance boundary
Data sensitivity none non-sensitive app data user/business-critical data PII/secrets/payment/compliance
Irreversibility no persisted effect code-only revert migration/backfill/config rollout irreversible user/data/customer impact
Blast radius one file/local one module user-facing service cross-service/production-wide
Ambiguity exact task minor unknowns multiple design choices unclear intent/spec

Total score routes the tier:

C0: 0-2   Direct/minimal
C1: 3-4   Bounded local change
C2: 5-7   Feature or behavior change
C3: 8-10  Production/multi-component
C4: 11+   Critical/high-assurance

If any single input is 3, consider raising at least to C3 unless the scope is provably isolated.


Tier Policy

C0 — Direct / Minimal

Required:

  • answer or inspect directly;
  • do not make T4 completion claims;
  • verify factual/code claims when possible.

C1 — Bounded Local Change

Required:

  • declare proof mode (tdd-verified);
  • run verification-before-completion before success claim;
  • run pattern-globalize if a bug was fixed.

C2 — Feature / Behavior Change

Required:

  • brainstorming lite;
  • proof mode;
  • writing-plans lite;
  • verification-before-completion;
  • mini ADR if a decision, contract, invariant, or behavior changed;
  • pattern-globalize for bug fixes.

C3 — Production / Multi-Component

Required:

  • domain-alignment if project/domain is new;
  • brainstorming;
  • DPS when the spec is non-trivial;
  • audit-design;
  • writing-plans + task-risk-score;
  • specialist-review;
  • verification-before-completion;
  • adr-commit;
  • knowledge-compound.

Read the full file on GitHub · 134 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 7d ago First seen · 134 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A a7e93c742b40

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complexity-gate is a skill published in the GitHub repository Eilodon/DPS-Superskills-MCP (0 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,076 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 2026-08-31.

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