choose-order

choose-order is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Hmbown/knightsradiant. It costs 17 tokens per session (525 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for choosing the first engineering perspective to apply to an underspecified task. It matches tasks such as architecture, bug investigation, refactoring, reliability, integration, naming, monitoring, and accessibility to a specialist order.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose an initial focus for architecture decisions, repository structure, reliability and performance, system integration, documentation, naming, monitoring, or accessibility.
Why use it?
It prevents work from starting with the wrong kind of review when the goal is clear but the best method is not.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it to choose an initial focus for architecture decisions, repository structure, reliability and performance, system integration, documentation, naming, monitoring, or accessibility.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hmbown/knightsradiant/choose-order
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 Hmbown/knightsradiant --skill choose-order
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Hmbown/knightsradiant

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 525 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 $0.00017 $0.00525
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00262
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00105
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00052

Measured 10d ago against content hash 9794ed832a58, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

choose-order 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.

skills/knights-radiant/choose-order/SKILL.md · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Choose Order

Use this skill when the work is underspecified in method but clear in goal, and the main question is which single engineering lens should own the baton first.

choose-order vs run-cycle: choose-order picks the narrowest first lens for the immediate constraint. run-cycle picks a fuller sequence when the task needs multiple lenses. On the same task, they may give different answers — choose-order says "start here," run-cycle says "walk this path." That divergence is intentional, not a bug.

Inputs required

  • task statement
  • whether the work is new design, bug triage, refactor, enforcement, rollout, integration, or reliability work
  • constraints if already known

Procedure

  1. Classify the task as new design, bug triage, refactor, risky rollout, enforcement, reliability, integration, naming, observability, accessibility, or scaffolding.
  2. Pick the narrowest order that names the real constraint:
    • Elsecaller for architecture and irreversible choices
    • Willshaper for repo shape and scaffolding
    • Stoneward for reliability, load, and performance core
    • Bondsmith for integration and multi-system choreography
    • Lightweaver for naming, docs, and truthful surfaces
    • Truthwatcher for evidence, instrumentation, and debugging
    • Edgedancer for edge cases, recovery, and accessibility
    • Dustbringer for deletion and simplification
    • Skybreaker for machine-enforced rules
    • Windrunner for blast radius, rollout, and rollback
  3. If the task is small, choose the minimum viable cycle from CYCLE.md instead of forcing all ten.
  4. Load only the chosen order skill and keep prior hand-off artifacts in context.

Output shape

Return a routing packet with:

  • recommended order
  • why this order fits best
  • artifact to produce
  • likely next order if the work continues
  • source docs to consult
  • minimum viable alternative if the full order feels too heavy

Example invocation

"Use choose-order for: 'we need to split our reporting worker into separate batch and realtime paths without wrecking ops.'"

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 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 · 59 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 9794ed832a58

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choose-order is a skill published in the GitHub repository Hmbown/knightsradiant (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 525 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 2026-08-31.