one-three-one-rule

one-three-one-rule is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from johnson7788/MultiUserClaw. It costs 105 tokens per session (1,078 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of one-three-one-rule, MIT.

A decision-making format for technical choices with several reasonable options. It presents one problem statement, three alternatives with trade-offs, and one recommended plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Framing a technical decision, laying out exactly three viable approaches, weighing their advantages and disadvantages, and turning the recommendation into an action plan.
Why use it?
It makes architecture, tooling, refactoring, and migration decisions easier to compare and explain to a team.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Framing a technical decision, laying out exactly three viable approaches, weighing their advantages and disadvantages, and turning the recommendation into an action plan.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/johnson7788/multiuserclaw/one-three-one-rule
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 johnson7788/MultiUserClaw --skill one-three-one-rule
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/johnson7788/MultiUserClaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 105 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,078 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 86% 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 $0.00105 $0.01078
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00539
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00216
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00108

Measured 9d ago against content hash e2da7f526aa8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

one-three-one-rule 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 9d 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

86% identical to one-three-one-rule — 9 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.

hermes-agent/optional-skills/communication/one-three-one-rule/SKILL.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

1-3-1 Communication Rule

Structured decision-making format for when a task has multiple viable approaches and the user needs a clear recommendation. Produces a concise problem framing, three options with trade-offs, and an actionable plan for the recommended path.

When to Use

  • The user explicitly asks for a "1-3-1" response.
  • The user says "give me options" or "what are my choices" for a technical decision.
  • A task has multiple viable approaches with meaningful trade-offs (architecture, tooling, migration strategy).
  • The user needs a proposal they can forward to a team or stakeholder.

Do NOT use for simple questions with one obvious answer, debugging sessions, or tasks where the user has already decided on an approach.

Procedure

  1. Problem (one sentence)

    • State the core decision or desired outcome in a single concise sentence.
    • Focus on the what, not the how — no implementation details, tool names, or specific technologies.
    • Keep it tight. If you need "and", you're describing two problems.
  2. Options (exactly three)

    • Present three distinct, viable approaches labeled A, B, C.
    • Each option gets a brief description, pros, and cons.
    • Options should represent genuinely different strategies, not minor variations of the same approach.
  3. Recommendation (one option)

    • State which option you recommend and why, based on the user's context and priorities.
    • Be direct — this is your professional judgment, not a hedge.
  4. Definition of Done

    • List the specific success criteria for the recommended option.
    • These are concrete, verifiable outcomes — not vague aspirations.
    • If the user picks a different option, revise this section to match.
  5. Implementation Plan

    • Concrete steps to execute the recommended option.
    • Include specific commands, tools, or actions where applicable.
    • If the user picks a different option, revise this section to match.

Verification

  • Response has exactly one Problem sentence.
  • Response has exactly three Options (A, B, C) with pros and cons for each.
  • Response has a single Recommendation that picks one option with reasoning.
  • Definition of Done and Implementation Plan align with the recommended option.
  • If the user selects a different option, Recommendation, DoD, and Implementation Plan update accordingly.

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 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. 9d ago First seen · 105 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A e2da7f526aa8

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one-three-one-rule is a skill published in the GitHub repository johnson7788/MultiUserClaw (317 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 1,078 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to one-three-one-rule, differing in 9 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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