debloating

debloating is a skill for Claude Code from isvlasov/rageatc-oss. It costs 78 tokens per session (1,130 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A text-editing process that removes words that do not help the intended reader, such as repetition, filler, and unnecessary explanation. It can be used on skills, agent instructions, and other documents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to slim down a skill or document, tighten its description, move conditional detail to references, and identify duplicated or outdated passages.
Why use it?
It makes a file shorter and clearer while preserving useful instructions and the keywords needed to find a skill. It also flags problems that should be decided by the owner instead of silently changing them.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the rageatc-core-oss plugin — 24 skills, 6 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to slim down a skill or document, tighten its description, move conditional detail to references, and identify duplicated or outdated passages.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/isvlasov/rageatc-oss/debloating
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.

Any agent
npx skills add isvlasov/rageatc-oss --skill debloating
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/isvlasov/rageatc-oss

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rageatc-core-oss, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 24 skills, 6 agents.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for debloating

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/isvlasov/rageatc-oss/debloating"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/isvlasov/rageatc-oss/debloating.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,130 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.
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 $0.00078 $0.01130
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00565
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00226
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00113

Measured 8d ago against content hash 03a4824d9541, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

debloating 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.

plugins/rageatc-core-oss/skills/debloating/SKILL.md · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Debloating

What counts as bloat

Bloat is text that changes nothing for its reader. The reader is usually the agent, but not always — Step 0 confirms who. Text fails it when: the reader already knows it, it is filler or ceremony, it repeats something already said.

This is judged against the artefact's intent. Without an agreed intent, signal and noise are indistinguishable.

Scope

  • The unit is one file. Read related assets (another skill, a rule, the agent that preloads this skill) only when a specific cut needs that context — for example, to confirm a passage is duplicated elsewhere or already known to the reader. Most files need none of this.
  • Tuned for skills; works on any prose artefact.
  • Frontmatter descriptions are in scope — they are often bloated. Debloat them too, but preserve the trigger keywords and discoverability that let the skill be found; do not cut past the point where routing still works.
  • Flag, do not fix, anything that is not a cut: contradictions, overlap with another skill, aged assumptions, "should this exist at all". Raise it and let the user decide.

Workflow

Step 0 — Agree the intent (always first)

Read the whole artefact. State back, and confirm with the user, three things: why it exists (its intent), who the reader is (usually the agent, sometimes a human), and what matters to that reader. These are the measuring stick for every judgement that follows — cut nothing before they are agreed.

Step 1 — Classify every passage

Sort candidate text by what removing it costs:

  • Tier 1 — lossless removal. Text that fails the test above: no signal. Filler, ceremony, internal repetition, explaining what the reader already knows.
  • Tier 2 — lossless compression. The instruction stays; the ornament goes. Same load, shorter and plainer words.
  • Tier 3 — lossy reduction. Real but marginal signal, removed because the text-to-value ratio is poor — a small loss for a large saving.
  • Offload. Detail that is genuinely needed but only sometimes (edge cases, long schemas, example catalogues) moves to references/ with a one-line pointer. Rule: what is needed on every invocation stays in the body; what is needed only conditionally is relocated, not deleted.

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 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 · 63 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 03a4824d9541

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debloating is a skill published in the GitHub repository isvlasov/rageatc-oss (9 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 1,130 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.