crystallize

crystallize is a skill for Codex from eric-tramel/moraine. It costs 89 tokens per session (1,283 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A planning workflow that turns a rough feature, bug, refactor, architecture, documentation, or operations idea into a detailed local implementation plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect a project, gather parallel research, and save a ready-to-implement plan as an ignored Markdown file under the plans directory.
Why use it?
It researches the codebase and relevant prior work before writing the plan, helping expose affected areas and open risks before coding begins.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to inspect a project, gather parallel research, and save a ready-to-implement plan as an ignored Markdown file under the plans directory.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/eric-tramel/moraine/crystallize
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 eric-tramel/moraine --skill crystallize
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/eric-tramel/moraine

Made for: Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 89 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,283 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 58
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00089 $0.01283
Opus 5.5 $0.00036 $0.00513
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00257
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00128

Measured 1mo ago against content hash dd11e9771560, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

crystallize 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.

plugins/moraine-dev/skills/crystallize/SKILL.md · 157 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 157 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Crystallize

Overview

Use this skill to convert rough input into an implementation plan that another agent can execute without needing the original discussion. The output is a single ignored local Markdown file under the gitignored plans/ directory.

Do not implement the plan while crystallizing. Inspect, research, and reason; only write the plan artifact.

Plan Artifact

Create plans/ if it does not exist:

mkdir -p plans

Choose a unique filename:

  • Derive a lowercase hyphenated slug from the rough input.
  • Prefix it with a UTC timestamp from date -u +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S.
  • Use plans/<timestamp>-<slug>.md.
  • If the file already exists, append -2, -3, etc.

Keep plans/ and every plan file ignored and untracked. Do not add them to git, do not create a tracked placeholder, and do not include plan files in commits.

Research Wave

Launch parallel subagents before drafting the plan. Give each subagent the raw user input, any linked issue or document text, and explicit permission to inspect the workspace. Do not include your intended solution.

Use these research roles unless a role is plainly irrelevant:

  • CodebaseResearch: identify affected crates, modules, APIs, tests, docs, and local patterns. Return concrete file paths and constraints.
  • HistoryResearch: use Moraine MCP tools directly when prior or active agent context may matter. Search past sessions by keywords, inspect relevant sessions, and return only actionable history.
  • PublicPriorArtResearch: research public implementations, official docs, standards, libraries, and comparable approaches. Prefer primary sources and include links when external sources influence the plan.
  • RiskResearch: identify correctness, security, performance, migration, compatibility, rollout, and testing risks.

Subagent prompt shape:

Research this rough implementation idea for Moraine.
Focus only on <role>.
Return evidence, concrete file paths or source links, constraints, and recommended plan implications.
Do not draft the whole plan and do not assume my preferred approach.

Rough input:
<raw user input>

Read the full file on GitHub · 157 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. 1mo ago First seen · 157 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A dd11e9771560

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crystallize is a skill published in the GitHub repository eric-tramel/moraine (116 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 1,283 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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