effort-scaling

effort-scaling is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Hawkynt/ClaudeCodePortable. It costs 88 tokens per session (726 once invoked), scanned A, original, LGPL-3.0.

A task-planning rule that adjusts the amount of investigation and tool use to the size of the task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of coding, debugging, research, or question-answering tasks to choose an appropriate level of effort.
Why use it?
It prevents small questions from receiving unnecessary work while allowing difficult investigations to get enough attention.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it at the start of coding, debugging, research, or question-answering tasks to choose an appropriate level of effort.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hawkynt/claudecodeportable/effort-scaling
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 Hawkynt/ClaudeCodePortable --skill effort-scaling
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Hawkynt/ClaudeCodePortable

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

agentmods badge for effort-scaling

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/hawkynt/claudecodeportable/effort-scaling"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hawkynt/claudecodeportable/effort-scaling/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for effort-scaling

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/hawkynt/claudecodeportable/effort-scaling"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hawkynt/claudecodeportable/effort-scaling.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 726 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 unknown 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 $0.00088 $0.00726
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00363
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00145
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00073

Measured 10d ago against content hash 1be656450b27, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

effort-scaling 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.

templates/skills/effort-scaling/SKILL.md · 35 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed LGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed LGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 35 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A 1be656450b27

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effort-scaling is a skill published in the GitHub repository Hawkynt/ClaudeCodePortable (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed LGPL-3.0. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 726 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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