constraint-analysis

constraint-analysis is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fzfclee/consulting-skills. It costs 60 tokens per session (778 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A method for finding the single factor that most limits progress in a process or system. This limiting factor may be a bottleneck, dependency, scarce resource, policy, or decision right.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to diagnose delays, identify where work queues or fails, assess dependencies and capacity, and plan how to remove or monitor the constraint.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish the main blockage from smaller annoyances, so effort is directed where it can improve throughput most.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to diagnose delays, identify where work queues or fails, assess dependencies and capacity, and plan how to remove or monitor the constraint.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fzfclee/consulting-skills/constraint-analysis
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add fzfclee/consulting-skills --skill constraint-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fzfclee/consulting-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 778 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 $0.00060 $0.00778
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00389
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00156
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00078

Measured 9d ago against content hash acc845f45ea7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

constraint-analysis 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.

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.

skills/constraint-analysis/SKILL.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Constraint Analysis

Use this skill to identify the constraint that most limits progress and decide how to address it.

Method Notes

  • A constraint is the factor that most limits the system's ability to reach the goal.
  • Many issues are annoyances; only a few are binding constraints.
  • The method should distinguish symptoms, bottlenecks, dependencies, policy constraints, resource constraints, and self-imposed constraints.
  • Removing a constraint may move the bottleneck elsewhere, so follow-up monitoring matters.

Required Inputs

Collect or infer these inputs before execution:

  • goal or desired throughput
  • current process, path, or action sequence
  • observed blockage or delay
  • resources, capacity, decision rights, dependencies, and policies
  • evidence of where work queues, stalls, or fails

If an input is missing, mark it as missing, state the assumption used, and add a validation action.

When Not To Use

Do not use when the issue is mainly unclear preference or option selection. Use decision-matrix or weighted-scorecard instead.

Step-by-Step Execution

Step Required input How to execute Output
Define the goal Desired outcome, throughput, or progress. State what the system is trying to achieve. Goal statement.
Map the flow Process steps, dependencies, owners. List the sequence from start to desired outcome. Flow map.
Identify stall points Evidence of delays, queues, rework, rejection, missing approvals. Mark where progress slows or stops. Bottleneck candidates.
Classify constraints Resources, capability, policy, market, decision rights, information. Label each candidate constraint type. Constraint table.
Find the binding constraint Evidence, impact, dependency logic. Identify which constraint limits progress most right now. Binding constraint.
Choose response Constraint type, control boundary. Decide whether to exploit, elevate, remove, redesign around, or monitor the constraint. Constraint action.
Predict next constraint Flow map, action. Anticipate where the bottleneck may move after intervention. Next-constraint watchlist.

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 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. 9d ago First seen · 77 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A acc845f45ea7

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constraint-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository fzfclee/consulting-skills (4 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 778 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.