s4h-resource-waste-audit

s4h-resource-waste-audit is a skill for Claude Code from human-avatar/skills-for-humanity. It costs 67 tokens per session (1,277 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for finding where time, money, attention, or effort is being used without producing useful value. It examines wastes such as waiting, duplicated work, rework, unnecessary handoffs, and unfinished work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review workflows, find duplicated or blocked work, and identify effort that can be removed or reduced.
Why use it?
Teams can lose resources through process problems that are easy to overlook. Naming the type of waste shows where improvement is possible.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the skills-for-humanity plugin — 197 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to review workflows, find duplicated or blocked work, and identify effort that can be removed or reduced.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity/s4h-resource-waste-audit
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add human-avatar/skills-for-humanity --skill s4h-resource-waste-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skills-for-humanity, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 197 skills, 1 hook.

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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,277 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00067 $0.01277
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00639
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00255
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00128

Measured 9d ago against content hash b63842339310, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

s4h-resource-waste-audit 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/s4h-resource-waste-audit/SKILL.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Resource Waste Audit

In manufacturing, Toyota identified seven categories of waste. They apply equally to knowledge work — with a different surface appearance but the same underlying structure. The goal is to find where resources are consumed without producing value.


The Seven Wastes in Knowledge Work

Waste Description
Waiting Idle time between steps — work blocked pending a decision, review, or dependency
Overproduction Producing more than is needed — reports no one reads, features no one uses
Rework Fixing what should have been right — re-doing work due to unclear requirements or poor handoffs
Duplication The same work being done in two places — parallel efforts, re-discovered knowledge
Motion Unnecessary switching or handoffs — context switching, excessive meetings, process overhead
Inventory Work in progress that is not flowing — large backlogs, features built but not shipped
Over-processing More effort than the task requires — over-engineered solutions, unnecessary polish

Your Process

Step 1: Map the Workflow or Resource Allocation Describe how work moves through the system — the full path from input to value delivery.

Framing check: Confirm the specific workflow or resource area before continuing. State what you've identified — the system or team being audited and its primary resource inputs — in one sentence, then use AskUserQuestion:

  • Question: "I'm reading this as: [your one-sentence framing of the workflow or resource area being audited]. Is that right?"
  • Header: "Framing"
  • Options:
    • Yes — proceed — framing is correct
    • Adjust — one element is off; user will correct it before you continue
    • Reframe — different situation than read; incorporate the correction before proceeding

Step 2: Scan Each Waste Category For each of the seven wastes: where does it appear in the workflow? Look for specific instances, not general impressions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 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 · 114 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A b63842339310

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s4h-resource-waste-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository human-avatar/skills-for-humanity (223 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 1,277 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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