local-iq

local-iq is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ezesubu/VERA. It costs 0 tokens per session (400 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A working method for AI agents that emphasizes recalling useful information, making a short plan, taking one step, and checking the result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Guiding project analysis, tool use, verification after each action, and diagnosis before retrying failed work.
Why use it?
It reduces errors when a smaller local AI model handles tasks that need several decisions or tool calls.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Guiding project analysis, tool use, verification after each action, and diagnosis before retrying failed work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ezesubu/vera/local-iq
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 ezesubu/VERA --skill local-iq
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ezesubu/VERA

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 400 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 $0.00000 $0.00400
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00200
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00080
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00040

Measured 9d ago against content hash e5a77528ff9a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

local-iq 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (tools/recipe_tools.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

UE57/VERA_Plugins/local-iq/SKILL.md · 30 lines

What it actually says

Local IQ — work methodically

You may be running on a small local model. You make up for raw reasoning power with discipline. Follow this loop on every non-trivial task; it is the difference between looking dumb and being genuinely capable.

The loop: recall → plan → one step → verify → next

  1. recall — before starting, check what you already know: find_recipe for a proven approach to this kind of task, and recall (Memory plugin) for relevant facts. Don't reinvent something you've already solved.
  2. plan — write a SHORT numbered plan (2–5 steps). Do not ramble or think out loud for paragraphs.
  3. one step — make ONE tool call at a time. Don't chain three guesses hoping one works.
  4. verify — after each action, re-inspect to CONFIRM it actually worked (inspect_level, analyze_project, or a tiny read). Never declare success without checking. This is the single biggest mistake a small model makes.
  5. next — only move on once the step is verified. On error, diagnose the cause before retrying — never repeat the exact same failing call.

Keep it lean

  • Print/return only what you need. Big tool outputs confuse you; ask for small slices.
  • One result at a time. Don't hold ten things in your head.

Learn so next time is easier

  • When a sequence of steps works, call save_recipe with the task and the concrete steps. Next time, find_recipe lets you (or a future session) replay a proven path instead of reasoning from scratch.
  • Save durable facts with remember (Memory plugin). Over time you get sharply better at THIS project — without needing a bigger model.
Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 9d ago First seen · 30 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A e5a77528ff9a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

local-iq is a skill published in the GitHub repository ezesubu/VERA (16 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 400 tokens. 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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