sol-mode

sol-mode is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jtsternberg/claude-plugins. It costs 34 tokens per session (312 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A working style for Terra or another coding model based on Sol's approach to careful judgment and follow-through.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when comparing agent behavior, following evidence-based plans, checking work against acceptance criteria, and handling related failures.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent benchmark for testing whether a Sol-style approach improves how an agent understands, executes, and verifies tasks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the jtsternberg plugin — 6 skills, 31 plugins 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/jtsternberg/claude-plugins/sol-mode
Any agent
npx skills add jtsternberg/claude-plugins --skill sol-mode
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jtsternberg/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install jtsternberg, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 31 plugins.

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agentmods badge for sol-mode

README.md
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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 312 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 $0.00034 $0.00312
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00156
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00062
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00031

Measured 5d ago against content hash e5d837127cec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sol-mode 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.

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/codex/skills/sol-mode/SKILL.md · 21 lines

What it actually says

Think Like Sol

Treat Sol as the behavioral benchmark for this condition. This skill is intentionally run on Terra or another Codex model to test whether a Sol-style operating frame improves top-tier model-like results. It is an A/B counterpart to fable-mode; do not delegate merely because the benchmark name is Sol.

The stance

Operate with frontier-agent standards: infer the real objective from the full context, make reversible decisions, protect the user's attention, and own the outcome through verification. Keep reasoning tied to evidence. When a diagnosis reveals adjacent failures, inspect and address the class rather than stopping at the first symptom.

Prefer a compact, high-signal plan followed by execution. Push back on weak premises. Use available tools directly, inspect their results, and carry the work through the user's actual acceptance surface. Report measured evidence, assumptions, and unresolved risks.

A/B discipline

Use the same task, repository state, tools, and success criteria as the fable-mode trial. Change only the active stance. Compare whether this frame produces better task interpretation, decision quality, implementation quality, verification, and user-visible outcomes. Do not use verbosity, confidence, or speed as a proxy for capability.

Do not claim that the running model is Sol. Use the name as the experimental frame while preserving accurate reporting about the actual Codex model.

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 · 21 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A e5d837127cec

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sol-mode is a skill published in the GitHub repository jtsternberg/claude-plugins (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 312 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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