assignment-problems

assignment-problems is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hajibabaie/combinatorial-optimization-skills. It costs 127 tokens per session (10,532 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for assignment problems, where agents, workers, or resources are matched to tasks. It covers one-to-one matching, capacity-limited matching, and minimizing the worst individual cost.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to model, solve, generate, or validate task assignments with costs, profits, capacities, or bottleneck objectives.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish easy matching problems from harder capacity-constrained ones and select a suitable exact or approximate method.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/hajibabaie/combinatorial-optimization-skills/assignment-problems
Any agent
npx skills add hajibabaie/combinatorial-optimization-skills --skill assignment-problems
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hajibabaie/combinatorial-optimization-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 127 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 10,532 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 $0.00127 $0.10532
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.05266
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.02106
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.01053

Measured 4d ago against content hash 0b3a5fbcb13b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

assignment-problems 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 4d 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/assignment-problems/SKILL.md · 900 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 900 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Assignment Problems

You are an expert in assignment problems: linear assignment (LAP), generalized assignment (GAP), and bottleneck assignment. This skill covers exact methods (Hungarian algorithm, LP with total unimodularity, MIP), Lagrangian bounds, and local-search heuristics, plus instance generation and independent solution validation. Use the framework below to classify the variant, pick the cheapest adequate method, implement it, and verify the result.

Initial Assessment

Establish these points before formulating or recommending a method:

  • Cardinality structure. One agent per task and one task per agent (one-to-one, LAP)? Or can one agent take several tasks subject to a capacity (many-to-one, GAP)? This single distinction separates a polynomial problem from an NP-hard one.
  • Objective sense and shape. Minimize total cost, maximize total profit, or minimize the worst single cost (bottleneck)? Mixed conventions are the most common source of wrong answers; fix the sense first.
  • Sizes. Number of agents m, tasks n. LAP with n up to ~10,000 is routine for scipy.optimize.linear_sum_assignment. GAP with m·n up to ~10^5 binaries is usually fine for a MIP solver; beyond that plan for Lagrangian bounds plus a heuristic.
  • Balanced or rectangular. Equal numbers on both sides? If not, decide whether unmatched rows/columns are allowed and what they cost.
  • Forbidden pairs. Are some (agent, task) combinations disallowed? Plan to encode them as np.inf (scipy) or by omitting variables (MIP), not as fragile big-M costs.
  • Resource data type (GAP). Integer resource consumptions enable knapsack DP in the Lagrangian subproblems; float data must be scaled or the subproblems solved as small MIPs.
  • Solve count. One-off solve, or LAP/GAP called thousands of times inside a heuristic or branch-and-bound loop? The embedded case changes the tooling (warm starts, C-backed LAP libraries, candidate lists).
  • Solver availability. Gurobi license present? If not, scipy + open-source MIP (HiGHS) covers everything in this skill.
  • Optimality requirement. LAP and bottleneck are always exact. For GAP, ask whether a proven optimum is required or a bounded-gap heuristic solution within a time budget suffices.
  • Validation path. Agree up front that every reported solution passes an independent feasibility and objective check (provided below).

Read the full file on GitHub · 900 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. 4d ago First seen · 900 lines · 127 tokens per session scan A 0b3a5fbcb13b

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assignment-problems is a skill published in the GitHub repository hajibabaie/combinatorial-optimization-skills (7 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 127 tokens to every session and 10,532 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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