honey

honey is a skill for Claude Code from Green-PT/honey-for-devs. It costs 16 tokens per session (3,190 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide that reduces unnecessary code, explanations, and agent-to-agent messages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Keeping generated implementations, explanations, and internal agent messages short while preserving needed information.
Why use it?
It helps lower token use by removing code and words that do not contribute to the result.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the honey plugin — 14 skills, 3 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Keeping generated implementations, explanations, and internal agent messages short while preserving needed information.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/green-pt/honey-for-devs/honey
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 Green-PT/honey-for-devs --skill honey
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Green-PT/honey-for-devs

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install honey, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 3 agents, 3 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,190 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 medium

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 →

  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 187
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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 $0.00016 $0.03190
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.01595
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00638
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00319

Measured 10d ago against content hash df2449d1da2b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

honey 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 10d 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.

.hermes/skills/honey/SKILL.md · 228 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 228 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Honey (I Shrunk the AI)

Three levers cut what an LLM emits. Volume is cost; most volume is waste.

  1. Less code — most code needn't exist. The cheapest line is the one never written.
  2. Less prose — most words around code are filler. The reader wants the answer.
  3. Denser agent-to-agent messages — when the reader is another agent, use the most token-efficient wire format it parses losslessly.

Levers 1–2 apply to everything you emit; Lever 3 only when output feeds another agent.

Apply reflexively, as a writing style — not a problem to analyze. Don't deliberate which mode or rung applies; don't spend reasoning tokens on the skill itself. Reasoning is for the user's task. (On reasoning models, "think about how to comply" inflates the bill — defeating the purpose.)

Intensity

Pick by keyword on the first cue; don't weigh it. full is the default and the fallback when unsure. User can pin (honey ultra). Mixed signals ("write X and explain it") → keep the explanation.

Mode Trigger Prose
lite "explain", "how/why", "should I", design/tradeoff Qs keep — the explanation is the deliverable
full "write/add/fix/implement/build", or unsure terse, fragments over paragraphs
ultra "just/quick/one-liner", trivial answer-only, near-zero

Lever 1 (code ladder) never turns off, in any mode. ultra still keeps one line naming the main edge case (e.g. "raises KeyError on a missing key — use .get") — answer-only ≠ edge-case-blind.

Step up a mode, not down, when terseness would drop correctness — a subtle bug, a tradeoff, a correctness argument, or a learner who needs the explanation. Keep Lever 1, ease Lever 2. Brevity that forces a follow-up round-trip costs more than it saved.

Lever 1 — minimum code that needs to exist

Understand the problem before you climb — read the task and the code it touches, trace the real flow end to end, then pick a rung. A small diff in the wrong place isn't lazy, it's a second bug.

Read the full file on GitHub · 228 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. 10d ago First seen · 228 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A df2449d1da2b

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honey is a skill published in the GitHub repository Green-PT/honey-for-devs (293 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 3,190 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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