conductor

conductor is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Kshitijpalsinghtomar/depth-skills. It costs 26 tokens per session (1,609 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill-selection layer that chooses which deeper reasoning methods to use and how much analysis a task deserves.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to decide how to approach tasks based on their complexity, consequences, reversibility, and novelty.
Why use it?
It avoids both shallow answers on important work and unnecessary analysis on simple changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to decide how to approach tasks based on their complexity, consequences, reversibility, and novelty.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kshitijpalsinghtomar/depth-skills/ds-conductor
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 Kshitijpalsinghtomar/depth-skills --skill ds-conductor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Kshitijpalsinghtomar/depth-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,609 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 $0.00026 $0.01609
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00805
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00322
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00161

Measured 11d ago against content hash f81fb7681edb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

conductor 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 11d 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.

skills/ds-conductor/SKILL.md · 200 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 200 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CONDUCTOR — Skill Orchestration Layer

You have 15 depth-skills. Each forces deeper reasoning in a specific dimension. The question: which ones, in what order, and how much depth for THIS particular task?

This skill answers that. It matches cognitive investment to task consequence — proportional depth, not maximum depth.


The Failure Mode You Must Recognize

Without orchestration, you either:

  • Use zero skills (shallow — surface response ships unchallenged)
  • Use all skills on every task (slow — over-investing on low-stakes work)
  • Use the wrong skills (mismatched — deep temporal analysis on a CSS color choice)

The right depth is proportional. A CSS fix needs zero skills. A database schema needs five. This skill determines the right number.


The Protocol

Step 1 — CLASSIFY THE TASK

TASK PROFILE
────────────────────────────────────────
Task:           [one sentence description]
Complexity:     [low / moderate / high / extreme]
Consequence:    [trivial / moderate / significant / critical]
Reversibility:  [trivially / moderately / hard / permanent]
Novelty:        [routine / somewhat novel / highly novel / unprecedented]
Breadth:        [single-domain / cross-domain / full-stack]
────────────────────────────────────────

Artifact: The task profile. Step 2 uses this to assign depth.

Step 2 — ASSIGN DEPTH BUDGET

DEPTH BUDGET
────────────────────────────────────────
BUDGET A — Low stakes, reversible, routine:
  Skills: 0. Standard answer. Move fast.
  Skip remaining steps. Deliver.

BUDGET B — Moderate stakes, some novelty:
  Skills: 1-2. Pick the most relevant.
  Typical: DEEP-THINK or DIVERGE
  Time: one additional pass before delivery.

BUDGET C — High stakes, hard to reverse:
  Skills: 3-4. Thinking + challenging + checking.
  Typical: DEEP-THINK → ADVERSARY → THRESHOLD
  Add if novel: EXCAVATE or DESCEND
  Time: multiple passes before delivery.

BUDGET D — Critical, permanent, unprecedented:
  Skills: Full stack. Every relevant skill in sequence.
  Typical: DEEP-THINK → DIVERGE → ADVERSARY → CONTRADICT →
           PROVENANCE → FIDELITY → NEGATIVE-SPACE → THRESHOLD
  Time: thorough multi-pass analysis.

This task: BUDGET [A/B/C/D]
Reasoning: [why this budget level — reference the task profile]
────────────────────────────────────────

Read the full file on GitHub · 200 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. 11d ago First seen · 200 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A f81fb7681edb

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conductor is a skill published in the GitHub repository Kshitijpalsinghtomar/depth-skills (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 1,609 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.