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 ishandutta2007/claude-skills-by-karpathy --skill surgical-changesgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ishandutta2007/claude-skills-by-karpathyWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ishandutta2007/claude-skills-by-karpathy/surgical-changes)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ishandutta2007/claude-skills-by-karpathy/surgical-changes"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ishandutta2007/claude-skills-by-karpathy/surgical-changes/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ishandutta2007/claude-skills-by-karpathy/surgical-changes"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ishandutta2007/claude-skills-by-karpathy/surgical-changes.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00034 | $0.00211 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00017 | $0.00105 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00042 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00021 |
Grade A, and why
claude-skill-surgical-changes 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 12d 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.
What it actually says
Surgical Changes (Claude Skill)
Touch only what you must. Clean up only your own mess.
When editing existing code:
- Don't "improve" adjacent code. Avoid touching comments or formatting unrelated to the task.
- Don't refactor what isn't broken. Keep the diff clean and focused.
- Match existing style. Even if you prefer a different pattern, follow the project's lead.
- Report unrelated dead code. Mention it in the output instead of deleting it unless asked.
When your changes create orphans:
- Clean up your own mess. Remove imports, variables, or functions that YOUR changes made unused.
- Leave pre-existing dead code alone. Unless explicitly requested to clean it up.
The test: Every changed line should trace directly to the user's request.
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 22 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 8c8c4336a138
claude-skill-surgical-changes is a skill published in the GitHub repository ishandutta2007/claude-skills-by-karpathy (7 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 211 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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