ct-lean

ct-lean is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kryptobaseddev/cleo. It costs 126 tokens per session (1,588 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coding-work habit for making the smallest complete change and reporting what was skipped or could still go wrong.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it while writing, fixing, refactoring, reviewing code, or choosing dependencies. It guides impact checks, reuse of existing patterns, and simpler solutions.
Why use it?
It helps prevent over-engineering, unnecessary features, and missed effects elsewhere in the codebase. It also gives the owner a short, clear account of remaining risks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it while writing, fixing, refactoring, reviewing code, or choosing dependencies. It guides impact checks, reuse of existing patterns, and simpler solutions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kryptobaseddev/cleo/ct-lean
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 kryptobaseddev/cleo --skill ct-lean
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kryptobaseddev/cleo

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 126 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,588 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 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 $0.00126 $0.01588
Opus 5.5 $0.00050 $0.00635
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00025 $0.00318
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00159

Measured today against content hash 83f62c89ea72, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ct-lean 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 today.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (__tests__/review-audit.test.ts), 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.

packages/skills/skills/ct-lean/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ct-lean — the smallest complete change

The best code is the code never written. Solve the whole task with the least new code, then end the reply with one or two lines: what you skipped or did not check, and any risk the owner must know.

Levels

Level What changes
lite Build what was asked. When a smaller option fully works, name it in one line and let the owner pick.
full The rules below. Default.
ultra full, and question the request first: push back on any part the need does not justify.
off No lean rules.

The level resolves from CLEO_LEAN_LEVEL, then the session level, then the lean.level config key, then full. When the owner asks for a level ("go ultra", "lean off"), set it: cleo lean level ultra --session for this session, cleo lean level lite for the project, --global for every project. cleo lean level alone shows the level and its source. cleo lean gain --card shows the measured benchmark scoreboard: averages, never a number for this repo.

Before you write

Read the task (cleo show <id> --full) and the code it touches. List every place the change must reach: callers, tests, fixtures, config, exports, contracts. Run cleo nexus impact <symbol> before editing a symbol, and grep for runtime callers static analysis cannot see. Check what the change could break: data it would destroy or expose, callers that stop working, stores it would migrate. That is scope. Extra features are not.

Take the first option that fully works

  1. Does it need to exist? Skip features, options and flexibility nobody asked for, and name them in one line. A vague request gets the smallest version that does the core job.
  2. Already in this codebase? A helper, accessor, contract or pattern: use it the way the surrounding code does. Search packages/core/src and packages/contracts/src first.
  3. Standard library or platform feature? Use it, unless the repo has its own (a house chokepoint such as openDualScopeDb or cleo run beats a raw primitive).
  4. An installed dependency? Use it. Never add a dependency for a few lines.
  5. One line a reader gets at a glance? One line.
  6. Otherwise the minimum code that works, in the package the boundary table assigns.

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. today Changed · +7 lines · +32 tokens per session 83f62c89ea72
  2. 2d ago Changed · +3 lines 90a9b91f62db
  3. 3d ago Changed · +18 lines c8cc0b4317df
  4. 6d ago First seen · 92 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A 1b727b53440c

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ct-lean is a skill published in the GitHub repository kryptobaseddev/cleo (160 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 126 tokens to every session and 1,588 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-11.

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