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.
npx skills add human-avatar/skills-for-humanity --skill s4h-strategy-force-economygit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/human-avatar/skills-for-humanityWrote 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.
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00090 | $0.01548 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00045 | $0.00774 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00018 | $0.00310 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00155 |
Grade A, and why
s4h-strategy-force-economy 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 118 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Strategy: Force Economy
Sun Tzu's highest strategic achievement is the victory that costs nothing — where the opponent's resistance collapses without direct contest: "Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting." This is not passivity. It is the discipline of identifying where a small input creates a large output — where the terrain, timing, information asymmetry, or a single relationship multiplies your effective force without requiring you to match the opponent unit for unit.
The force economy principle asks: what is the minimum intervention that achieves the objective? Not merely because resources must be conserved (though they must), but because the maximum-force approach almost always generates the maximum resistance. Brute force signals intention, consumes capital, and invites a symmetrical response from an opponent with more of everything. The indirect approach — Basil Liddell Hart's formulation — achieves more by creating the conditions in which less is required.
The discipline is finding the leverage point: the node in the system where a small input produces a disproportionate output. Not all nodes are equal. Most effort has roughly proportional effect. Leverage points are structural exceptions — and finding them before acting is the core skill.
Your Process
Step 1: State the objective Define what success looks like clearly and specifically. Vague objectives produce vague force economy analyses. What must be true for this to be considered won?
Framing check: Confirm the specific situation before continuing. State the objective and the resource constraint in one sentence, then use AskUserQuestion:
- Question: "I'm reading this as: [your one-sentence framing of the objective and the resource or competitive constraint]. 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
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 118 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A 541fc724f4bb
s4h-strategy-force-economy is a skill published in the GitHub repository human-avatar/skills-for-humanity (223 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 1,548 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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