neutron

neutron is a skill for Claude Code from frankxai/claude-skills-library. It costs 101 tokens per session (1,345 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A task-planning workflow that reduces wasted context and tool calls without changing the required result. It tightens unclear requests, chooses an execution approach, and considers when to use subagents or different models.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for planning multi-step coding tasks, managing token budgets, choosing delegation, and deciding when a shorter workflow is enough.
Why use it?
It helps prevent vague requirements, repeated work, and unnecessary context or model costs on larger tasks.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the starlight-neutron plugin — 2 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit It is for planning multi-step coding tasks, managing token budgets, choosing delegation, and deciding when a shorter workflow is enough.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/frankxai/claude-skills-library/neutron
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 frankxai/claude-skills-library --skill neutron
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/frankxai/claude-skills-library

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install starlight-neutron, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 101 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,345 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 $0.00101 $0.01345
Opus 5.5 $0.00040 $0.00538
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00269
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00135

Measured yesterday against content hash ccf838f3242b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

neutron 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.

packs/starlight-neutron/skills/neutron/SKILL.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Neutron

Cut waste, never reasoning. Neutron decides how a task runs. It does not decide what the answer is, and it never trades correctness for a smaller bill.

Run the five steps in order. Skip a step when it clearly does not apply: a one-line question needs none of them. Total overhead is one short message.

1. Tighten the ask

Only when the request is multi-part, vague or long. Rewrite it as one block with five parts. Do not do the task yet.

  1. Goal and done-condition. What exists or passes when this is finished.
  2. Scope. Exact paths, repos, or systems. Name what is out of scope.
  3. Constraints. Versions, style, things that must not change.
  4. Output shape. Diff, file, table, one-line verdict. Length cap if one matters.
  5. Known facts. What the user already established, so it is not re-derived.

Tightening removes repetition and ambiguity. It does not shorten sentences into fragments. Compressing the user's prompt makes answers longer and worse, because the model has to guess what was cut. Keep the user's meaning whole and their words where they carry it.

If the ask is genuinely ambiguous in a way that changes the work, ask one question. Otherwise state the assumption and go.

2. Pick the shape

Tiers are relative: smallest, mid and largest model available to you. Map them to current model names from your provider's list, or from a routing skill if one is installed (for example model-routing). Effort is the reasoning budget, low, medium or high.

Work Shape Tier Effort
Find, list, locate, count Search subagent, returns paths and a verdict Smallest Low
Mechanical edit, rename, format, fixture Inline, one pass Small or mid Low
Implement against a clear spec Inline, test first Mid Medium
Ambiguous design, security, money, final review Inline Largest High
3 or more independent chunks, each over about 10 tool calls Parallel subagents, one per chunk Match each chunk Match each chunk

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 lines

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 · 86 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A ccf838f3242b

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neutron is a skill published in the GitHub repository frankxai/claude-skills-library (47 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 1,345 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 2026-10-15.