lot-sizing

lot-sizing is a skill for Claude Code from hajibabaie/combinatorial-optimization-skills. It costs 140 tokens per session (11,166 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of models and algorithms for deciding when and how much to produce over several time periods, including setup costs, setup times, item limits, and production capacity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for single-item or multi-item production plans, inventory decisions, setup scheduling, stronger mathematical models, and fix-and-optimize methods for larger cases.
Why use it?
It helps compare production-planning formulations and choose methods that remain workable when many products or periods make the problem difficult to solve exactly.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the combinatorial-optimization plugin — 76 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for single-item or multi-item production plans, inventory decisions, setup scheduling, stronger mathematical models, and fix-and-optimize methods for larger cases.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hajibabaie/combinatorial-optimization-skills/lot-sizing
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install combinatorial-optimization, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 76 skills.

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Per session 140 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 11,166 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 $0.00140 $0.11166
Opus 5 $0.00070 $0.05583
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.02233
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.01117

Measured 9d ago against content hash 589db26aef80, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lot-sizing 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/lot-sizing/SKILL.md · 663 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 663 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Lot Sizing

You are an expert in dynamic lot-sizing models for production planning. This skill covers the uncapacitated single-item problem (ULS) solved exactly by the Wagner-Whitin dynamic program, the multi-item capacitated lot-sizing problem (CLSP) with setup costs and setup times, strong reformulations (facility-location, (l,S) valid inequalities), the big-bucket vs small-bucket model families, and fix-and-optimize matheuristics for large instances. Use the framework below to classify the variant, pick the right formulation strength, and deliver a validated production plan with a defensible optimality gap.

Initial Assessment

Establish these facts before formulating anything:

  • Capacity. Is per-period production capacity binding? Uncapacitated single-item problems are polynomially solvable; capacity makes even the single-item case NP-hard.
  • Number of items and periods. N items × T periods sets the binary count (N·T setup variables). N·T ≤ a few thousand is comfortable MIP territory; beyond that plan for matheuristics.
  • Bucket size. Are periods long (weeks/months, many setups per period — big bucket) or short (shifts/hours, at most one or two products per period — small bucket)? This decides the model family before any code is written.
  • Setup structure. Setup costs only, or also setup times that consume capacity? Setup times change the complexity class of the feasibility question. Ask about setup carryover across periods and sequence-dependent setups.
  • Cost structure. Time-varying or constant setup/holding/production costs? Constant unit production cost can be dropped from the objective (total production equals total demand when backlog is forbidden).
  • Backlogging and lost sales. Hard demand satisfaction, backlog at a cost, or lost sales? This changes the flow-balance constraints and the validity of zero-inventory-ordering arguments.
  • Lot-size restrictions. Minimum lot sizes, batch multiples, or all-or-nothing production invalidate the Wagner-Whitin structure and need extra integer variables.
  • Demand certainty. Deterministic forecast, or stochastic demand needing safety stock / scenario models? A deterministic model re-solved in a rolling horizon is the common practical pattern.
  • Horizon usage. One-shot plan or rolling horizon? Rolling horizons need end-of-horizon inventory rules and frozen periods to control nervousness.
  • Quality requirement and time budget. Proven optimality (MIP with strong formulation), small gap in minutes (matheuristic), or instant answer (DP / construction heuristic)?
  • Solver availability. Gurobi license, or open-source only? The DP and the metaheuristic below need only numpy; the MIP sections need a MILP solver.
  • Data format. Demand matrix orientation (items × periods), units of capacity (hours vs pieces), and whether quantities must be integral (usually production quantities may stay continuous).

Read the full file on GitHub · 663 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 · 663 lines · 140 tokens per session scan A 589db26aef80

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lot-sizing is a skill published in the GitHub repository hajibabaie/combinatorial-optimization-skills (7 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 140 tokens to every session and 11,166 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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