zeus

zeus is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from itsribbZ/Godspeed. It costs 96 tokens per session (3,987 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coordinator for large or unclear tasks that breaks the work into smaller parts, sends those parts to worker agents, combines their results, and checks the final output.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for ambiguous tasks, architecture work, research bursts, or jobs with three or more independent subtasks that need planning and synthesis.
Why use it?
It helps organize research-heavy or multi-part work that benefits from several tasks running in parallel and from a separate quality review.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the godspeed plugin — 18 skills, 3 commands, 1 agent, 5 hooks 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/itsribbz/godspeed/zeus
Any agent
npx skills add itsribbZ/Godspeed --skill zeus
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/itsribbZ/Godspeed

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install godspeed, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills, 3 commands, 1 agent, 5 hooks.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,987 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 5.1 $0.00096 $0.03987
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01994
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00797
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00399

Measured 5d ago against content hash 59e4ad35b1b1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

zeus 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (zeus_cli.py, zeus_pipeline.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/godspeed/automations/homer/zeus/SKILL.md · 296 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 296 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Zeus — The Orchestrator (Homer L2)

Zeus decomposes, delegates, and synthesizes. Zeus never executes leaf work directly — he commands MUSES workers to do that. Zeus is the conductor, not the orchestra.

Status: P0 shipped 2026-04-11. MUSES (L3) shipped 2026-04-16 (Calliope, Clio, Urania live). SYBIL (L4) shipped 2026-04-12d. Oracle (L7) shipped 2026-04-12d. Full Homer 8/8 pantheon operational. Zeus now dispatches real parallel MUSES on Sonnet via the Agent tool.


When to invoke Zeus (vs godspeed)

Signal Route
Single-tool task, no decomposition needed Brain L1 direct → no orchestration
Multi-step, single-domain, no research godspeed (existing)
Multi-step, multi-domain, research-heavy Zeus
Task requires 3+ parallel subagents Zeus (MARS pattern)
Task needs advisor escalation midway Zeus (SYBIL wired in P1)
Task is ambiguous, needs planning Zeus (extended thinking plan phase)

Zeus is NOT godspeed v5. godspeed remains the generalist orchestrator for the user's daily work. Zeus is the leading-edge pattern for tasks where multi-agent decomposition is clearly the right move. Over time, if Zeus proves out, godspeed may migrate into a thin Zeus wrapper — but that decision waits for P4 evidence, not P0 vibes.


The Zeus Pipeline (7 phases)

[-1]  TICK          ← inherit Phase -1 from godspeed (brain godspeed-tick)
 [0]  CLASSIFY      ← delegate to L1 Brain: tier, guardrails, $ estimate
 [1]  PLAN          ← extended-thinking scratchpad: decompose → subtask list
 [2]  DISPATCH      ← spawn N MUSES in parallel (N = 3..5 typical, max 8)
 [3]  SYNTHESIZE    ← wait, reconcile outputs, verify citations
 [4]  EVAL          ← hand to L7 Oracle for sacred-rule + rubric scoring
 [5]  MEMORY        ← write to L5 Mnemos Core/Recall/Archival with citations
 [6]  CHECKPOINT    ← persist state to L0 Vault (phase="done")

Every phase writes a VAULT checkpoint update so compaction recovery works at any step. Zeus is phase-resumable.

Read the full file on GitHub · 296 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 5d ago First seen · 296 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A 59e4ad35b1b1

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zeus is a skill published in the GitHub repository itsribbZ/Godspeed (1 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 3,987 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 2026-08-31.