principle-laziness-protocol

principle-laziness-protocol is a skill for Claude Code from koolamusic/claudefiles. It costs 42 tokens per session (124 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of principle-laziness-protocol, MIT.

A guide to making the smallest code change that solves a problem. It favors deleting unnecessary code, avoiding premature abstractions, and keeping each decision in one place.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps with refactoring, reviewing change size, consolidating choices, and resisting abstractions that do not yet solve a real problem.
Why use it?
Large diffs and extra layers make changes harder to review and maintain. Smaller changes reduce needless complexity and repeated decisions.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the pstack plugin — 50 skills, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit It helps with refactoring, reviewing change size, consolidating choices, and resisting abstractions that do not yet solve a real problem.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/koolamusic/claudefiles/principle-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 koolamusic/claudefiles --skill principle-laziness-protocol
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/koolamusic/claudefiles

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pstack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 50 skills, 2 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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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 124 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 88% 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 $0.00124
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00050
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00025
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00012

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1be6e7a435f2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 2d 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

88% 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.

plugins/pstack/skills/principle-laziness-protocol/SKILL.md · 11 lines

What it actually says

Laziness Protocol

  • 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.
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. 2d ago First seen · 11 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 1be6e7a435f2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

principle-laziness-protocol is a skill published in the GitHub repository koolamusic/claudefiles (130 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 124 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to principle-laziness-protocol, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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