run-cycle

run-cycle is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Hmbown/knightsradiant. It costs 31 tokens per session (435 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for choosing an ordered review cycle for software work. It covers new projects, risky migrations, bug investigations, refactoring, and smaller tasks, with one engineering focus handled at a time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to select and run a sequence of engineering reviews, define the first hand-off document, and stop when the smallest sufficient review is complete.
Why use it?
It helps teams decide which kind of scrutiny is needed and pass clear work evidence from one stage to the next.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to select and run a sequence of engineering reviews, define the first hand-off document, and stop when the smallest sufficient review is complete.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 435 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 $0.00031 $0.00435
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00174
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00087
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00044

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 91208622049b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

run-cycle 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 2mo 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/run-cycle/SKILL.md · 57 lines

What it actually says

Run Cycle

Use this skill when the task needs not just one lens, but an intentional sequence of scrutiny.

run-cycle vs choose-order: choose-order picks the narrowest first lens for the immediate constraint. run-cycle picks a fuller sequence when the task needs multiple lenses in order. On the same task, they may recommend different starting orders — choose-order optimizes for "what matters most right now," run-cycle optimizes for "what sequence covers the full scope." That divergence is intentional, not a bug.

Inputs required

  • task statement
  • work type: greenfield, risky migration, triage, refactor, or ordinary small task
  • known constraints, deadlines, and risk level

Procedure

  1. Determine the work type:
    • greenfield feature or subsystem
    • risky migration or phased cutover
    • bug triage or incident response
    • refactor or cleanup
    • ordinary small task
  2. Select the cycle from CYCLE.md.
  3. Name the required hand-off artifact for the first order before starting.
  4. Keep one active order at a time; the next order inherits the artifact, not a blank prompt.
  5. Stop early when the minimum viable cycle is enough.

Output shape

Return a cycle packet with:

  • selected cycle
  • ordered list of active orders
  • first baton owner
  • required hand-off artifact for the current step
  • stop condition for the cycle
  • expected final deliverable

Default small-task triplet

Lightweaver → Skybreaker → Windrunner

Default risky migration cycle

Elsecaller → Bondsmith → Skybreaker → Windrunner

Example invocation

"Use run-cycle for: 'we have a flaky billing webhook, unclear root cause, and a hotfix window tomorrow morning.'"

Shared docs

Read CYCLE.md and IDEALS.md in this repo before running the cycle.

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. 2mo ago First seen · 57 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 91208622049b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

run-cycle is a skill published in the GitHub repository Hmbown/knightsradiant (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 435 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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