principle-laziness-protocol

principle-laziness-protocol is a skill for Claude Code from J-StaR-Films-Studios/VibeCode-Protocol-Suite. It costs 42 tokens per session (326 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of principle-laziness-protocol, ISC.

A refactoring guideline that favors deletion and the smallest change that solves the problem.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when reviewing a diff, simplifying a design, or deciding whether a new abstraction is needed.
Why use it?
It reduces unnecessary abstractions, layers, and code that make systems harder to understand.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it when reviewing a diff, simplifying a design, or deciding whether a new abstraction is needed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/j-star-films-studios/vibecode-protocol-suite/laziness-protocol
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 J-StaR-Films-Studios/VibeCode-Protocol-Suite --skill laziness-protocol
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/J-StaR-Films-Studios/VibeCode-Protocol-Suite

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 326 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00042 $0.00326
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00163
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00065
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00033

Measured 6d ago against content hash 8999fda9fde6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

principle-laziness-protocol 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 6d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to principle-laziness-protocol — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

assets/.agent/skills/engineering-principles/laziness-protocol/SKILL.md · 19 lines

What it actually says

Laziness Protocol

Writing code is cheap for you, which makes over-engineering easy. Counter it by borrowing a human maintainer's fatigue. Aim for the most result with the least code and complexity.

  • Prefer deletion. When asked to refactor or improve, look for removals before additions.
  • Maintain a flat call hierarchy. Avoid deep call chains. A rich interface that hides substantial work is not a deep call chain. If answering a question requires tracing through more than 3 files or layers, flatten it.
  • Consolidate decisions. Do not repeat the same choice in several places. Put it behind one source of truth and pass the result as a simple flag.
  • Minimize the diff. Make the smallest change that solves the problem. Fewer lines beat "elegant" boilerplate.
  • Question the threading. If a task asks you to pass a new signal through types, schemas, pipelines, or similar layers, stop and look for a more direct path.
  • Sweat the small leaks. Remove tiny pass-throughs, representation leaks, and duplicated choices before they spread. Small leaks compound into permanent coordination costs.

Prime directive: If a human developer would find the code exhausting to maintain, it is a bad solution. Be lazy. Stay simple.

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. 6d ago First seen · 19 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 8999fda9fde6

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principle-laziness-protocol is a skill published in the GitHub repository J-StaR-Films-Studios/VibeCode-Protocol-Suite (24 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed ISC. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 326 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to principle-laziness-protocol, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.