find-wasted-effort

find-wasted-effort is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fusebase-dev/fusebase-flow. It costs 262 tokens per session (2,710 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only audit skill that examines a project's process records to find steps that added ceremony without adding a useful safety or delivery outcome.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review gate and deployment reports, handoffs, approval records, git history, and related process annotations for wasted effort.
Why use it?
It helps identify unnecessary approvals, gates, reports, or other workflow overhead by comparing them with what they actually achieved.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the fusebase-flow plugin — 56 skills, 2 agents shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fusebase-dev/fusebase-flow/find-wasted-effort
Any agent
npx skills add fusebase-dev/fusebase-flow --skill find-wasted-effort
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fusebase-dev/fusebase-flow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install fusebase-flow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 56 skills, 2 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 262 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,710 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00262 $0.02710
Opus 5 $0.00131 $0.01355
Sonnet 5 $0.00052 $0.00542
Haiku 4.5 $0.00026 $0.00271

Measured 3d ago against content hash 0a88ec0440f4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

find-wasted-effort 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 3d 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.

.agents/skills/find-wasted-effort/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Find Wasted Effort (A2 — process-per-outcome ceremony audit)

The process-per-outcome ceremony audit — the sibling of the tokens-per-rule /token-waste-audit (FR-26). Different axis, different inputs, shared discipline.

/find-wasted-effort (this) /token-waste-audit (FR-26)
Axis process-per-outcome (ceremony) tokens-per-rule (consumption)
Inputs Flow artifacts ON DISK: gate/deploy reports, handoffs, approval artifacts, git log, round structure, prevents: annotations Claude Code transcripts (~/.claude/projects/.../*.jsonl)
Question "Which ceremony step bought no safety outcome?" "Which tokens bought no information?"
Shared candidate/false-positive header · read-only-first posture · state/audit/<date>.md gitignored output (same)

It is not standalone-with-no-sibling. It reuses the shipped substrate — see flow-skills/token-economy/SKILL.md and hooks/local/token-waste-audit.py for the FP-header text, the read-only posture, and the state/audit/ output convention. Do not reinvent or duplicate token-waste-audit's detection.

Guardrail first (same floor as FR-21 / FR-26)

Ceremony drops, safety never. This audit flags ceremony that is outcome-neutral in the observed window — that is a review candidate, not a remove instruction. A clean window is not proof a control is worthless: a gate stop can be low-frequency/high-severity (catastrophic-low-frequency, policies/ratchet-governance.yml). Every finding states the contrary evidence that would dismiss it; absence of contrary evidence in a short window is inconclusive, never confirmed.

Read-only-to-the-project is load-bearing (D4)

The analyzer writes only inside the gitignored state/audit/ directory — NO memory writes, NO overlay/spec/decisions/provider/policy edits, NO prune/remove application. This holds in Phase 1 (read-only) AND Phase 2A (proposal-output): Phase 2A enriches the output (a Proposed memory entries report section + an optional gitignored state/audit/ proposals JSON) but applies NOTHING. The audit describes candidates and proposes changes a human could apply; the PO owns subtraction (A3 prune protocol). The actual memory write-apply is Phase 2B (DEFERRED, consumer-repo prototype, AC2b). If asked to "just remove the dead gate" or "apply the proposal," refuse: "Per the A2 read-only-to-the-project posture (D4), I surface review candidates and propose patches; removal/apply is Phase 2B + the PO's call via the policies/ratchet-governance.yml prune protocol."

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 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. 3d ago First seen · 113 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 0a88ec0440f4

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find-wasted-effort is a skill published in the GitHub repository fusebase-dev/fusebase-flow (9 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 262 tokens to every session and 2,710 once invoked, about $0.0013 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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