ai-config-compress

ai-config-compress is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fabis94/universal-ai-config. It costs 100 tokens per session (1,577 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A prompt-editing guide for shortening instructions given to language models while trying to preserve their intended behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compress system prompts, rules, guidelines, custom instructions, or CLAUDE.md files.
Why use it?
It helps remove repeated wording, filler, and unnecessary context while identifying changes that might alter how the model responds.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Good fit Use it to compress system prompts, rules, guidelines, custom instructions, or CLAUDE.md files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fabis94/universal-ai-config/ai-config-compress
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add fabis94/universal-ai-config --skill ai-config-compress
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fabis94/universal-ai-config

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,577 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 high

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 →

  • high Anti-Refusal · line 68
    Skill instructs the agent to never refuse or to always comply. Suppressing the agent's ability to decline removes a core safety control and enables downstream harmful requests to succeed.
    Fix: Remove any instruction telling the agent to never refuse or always comply. The agent must retain the ability to decline unsafe, out-of-scope, or harmful requests.
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 $0.00100 $0.01577
Opus 5 $0.00050 $0.00788
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00315
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00158

Measured 11d ago against content hash cbeeb47a4cfc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-config-compress 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 11d 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.

.universal-ai-config/skills/ai-config-compress/SKILL.md · 161 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 161 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Prompt Compress

Compress LLM instructions with calibrated risk. Research shows ~60% of instruction tokens are removable without degrading output quality — and compression often improves performance by concentrating model attention.

Core Principles

  1. Instructions are the most sensitive prompt component. Apply maximum compression to examples and context, moderate compression to structure, minimal compression to core behavioral rules.
  2. Semantic equivalence ≠ behavioral equivalence. Two phrasings that mean the same thing to a human can produce different model behavior. Every change beyond mechanical cleanup carries nonzero risk.
  3. Compress in tiers. Apply safest changes first, present riskier changes as suggestions. The user decides how far to go.

Workflow

1. Analyze

Before compressing anything, analyze the input:

  • Count tokens (estimate: words × 1.3 for English)
  • Identify sections by function: safety, formatting, tone, behavior, examples, context, metadata
  • Detect duplicates: rules that express the same constraint in different words
  • Flag filler: politeness markers, hedging, verbose connectives
  • Note structural issues: scattered related rules, inconsistent formatting
  • Identify examples and assess whether they're redundant with stated rules

Present a brief analysis summary with estimated savings per tier.

2. Compress in Tiers

Apply changes tier by tier. For each tier, show a diff and token savings.

Tier 1 — Mechanical (auto-apply, safe)

These changes preserve exact meaning. Apply all of them:

  • Fix typos and inconsistent punctuation
  • Normalize whitespace (double spaces, trailing spaces, excessive blank lines)
  • Apply word-level substitutions from references/substitutions.md
  • Remove pure filler: "please note that," "it is important to," "keep in mind"
  • Remove politeness in system prompts: "please," "kindly," "if you don't mind"
  • Strip unnecessary articles in imperative instructions ("Write the response" → "Write response")
  • Remove self-referential meta-commentary ("The following rules govern your behavior:" → just list the rules)

Read the full file on GitHub · 161 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 11d ago First seen · 161 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A cbeeb47a4cfc

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ai-config-compress is a skill published in the GitHub repository fabis94/universal-ai-config (11 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 1,577 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.

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