executive-function

executive-function is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ihabkhaled/AI-Psychiatry. It costs 33 tokens per session (263 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A work-control method for keeping a task focused and bounded. It tracks the objective, scope, priority, progress, retries, verification, recovery, and stopping conditions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for complex coding tasks that need explicit completion criteria, progress checks, limited retries, strategy resets, and a clear blocker or completion result.
Why use it?
It reduces drift, repeated failed attempts, uncontrolled branching, and work that continues after the requirements are already met.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the ai-psychiatry plugin — 55 skills shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ihabkhaled/ai-psychiatry/executive-function
Any agent
npx skills add ihabkhaled/AI-Psychiatry --skill executive-function
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ihabkhaled/AI-Psychiatry

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ai-psychiatry, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 55 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 263 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00033 $0.00263
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00131
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00053
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00026

Measured 4d ago against content hash 1a037ac435c8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

executive-function 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 4d 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.

.ai/skills/executive-function/SKILL.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

Executive Function

Core principle

Reasoning quality needs executive control: decide what deserves thought, how much, when to act, when to reset, and when to stop.

Procedure

  1. Load the locked objective and finite DoD.
  2. Keep one active work item and classify every new branch.
  3. Track observable depth, retries, critic rounds, evidence, and last meaningful progress.
  4. Choose the smallest action that changes state or proves a requirement.
  5. Trigger attention reset on drift and strategy reset on repeated failure.
  6. Run the completion gate when remaining required items reach zero.

Required output

Current state, selected controller, evidence, one next action, and either completion proof or an exact blocker.

Limits

WIP 1; nesting 3; same strategy 3; critics 2; delegation 2; stalled reset after 4 cycles.

Common mistakes

Do not turn the framework into verbose introspection or load every deep guide for ordinary work.

Stop condition

Stop control work when execution is advancing, a real blocker is reported, or DoD is proven.

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. 4d ago First seen · 37 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 1a037ac435c8

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executive-function is a skill published in the GitHub repository ihabkhaled/AI-Psychiatry (3 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 263 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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