optimization-mission-playbook

optimization-mission-playbook is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Intelligent-Internet/zenith. It costs 118 tokens per session (9,454 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A playbook for work whose goal is to improve a measurable result, such as speed, latency, memory use, cost, throughput, accuracy, or ranking. It describes how to establish a trustworthy baseline and run an optimization effort.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when making software faster, smaller, cheaper, more accurate, or better scored. It helps structure benchmarks, measurements, experiments, and decisions about what evidence counts.
Why use it?
Optimization can become guesswork when the measurement is unclear or changes are not compared against a reliable workload. This helps separate metric improvement from ordinary feature development.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when making software faster, smaller, cheaper, more accurate, or better scored. It helps structure benchmarks, measurements, experiments, and decisions about what evidence counts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/intelligent-internet/zenith/optimization-mission-playbook
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Intelligent-Internet/zenith --skill optimization-mission-playbook
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Intelligent-Internet/zenith

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 118 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 9,454 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 $0.00118 $0.09454
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.04727
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.01891
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00945

Measured 8d ago against content hash a95912ba03c5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

optimization-mission-playbook 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 8d 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.

zenith/src/zenith_harness/bundled/skills/optimization-mission-playbook/SKILL.md · 684 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 684 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Optimization Mission Playbook

What This Playbook Is For

Load this playbook when the mission's goal is to move a metric: make something faster, smaller, cheaper, higher-scoring, more accurate, higher-throughput, better-compressed, better-ranked, or closer to a solver/objective bound. The signal is a number with a direction and a workload that produces it.

Do not use it for missions whose goal is durable behavior (a feature, a port, a migration, an API) — those are engineering missions; use engineering-mission-playbook. When a mission has both — build a benchmark harness then optimize a hot path, port a library then tune it — load both playbooks and record the boundary. Durable behavior and scaffolding may use engineering assertions; metric search should normally run as targetless optimization work, with formal assertions reserved for genuine durable commitments or externally required sign-off.

This playbook has two halves. The strategy (Posture through Anti-patterns) is how to think about an optimization mission — read it first; it is the reasoning every decision below depends on. The method (Operating Order onward) is how to express that thinking as orchestrator investigation, targetless experiment work in the current checkout, ledger review, and patches in this runtime. The method references the runtime lifecycle and task schema but does not redefine them.

Posture

An optimization mission moves a metric. You are not building toward a known end state — you are running an experiment whose answer you do not yet know, against a measurement that can mislead you. Think like a skeptical experimentalist, not a builder: most of the work is deciding what to measure, where, and whether the number is real — not deciding how to change the code.

Hold two ideas at once:

  • The metric is the goal.
  • The metric is a proxy that can lie — through noise, through non-comparable measurement, through gaming, through overfitting the cases you happened to look at.

Read the full file on GitHub · 684 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. 8d ago First seen · 684 lines · 118 tokens per session scan A a95912ba03c5

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optimization-mission-playbook is a skill published in the GitHub repository Intelligent-Internet/zenith (291 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 118 tokens to every session and 9,454 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-30.

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