crystallize

crystallize is a skill for Claude Code from larsboes/Axon. It costs 177 tokens per session (2,186 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow that turns scattered notes, brainstorms, or a half-written requirements document into a precise document grounded in the actual repository or knowledge store. It separates facts that can be measured from decisions that need the user's judgment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clarify requirements, inspect source material, ask focused multiple-choice questions, and produce a grounded project document.
Why use it?
It reduces errors caused by treating remembered or assumed information as fact. It also records why decisions were made and when.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the deliberation plugin — 4 skills, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to clarify requirements, inspect source material, ask focused multiple-choice questions, and produce a grounded project document.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/larsboes/axon/crystallize
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 larsboes/Axon --skill crystallize
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/larsboes/Axon

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install deliberation, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 7 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for crystallize

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for crystallize

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 177 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,186 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 $0.00177 $0.02186
Opus 5 $0.00088 $0.01093
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.00437
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00219

Measured today against content hash f2827ad2d852, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-15, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

crystallize 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 3 executable files (scripts/census.py, scripts/docedit.py, scripts/integrity.py), 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.

Packs/deliberation/skills/crystallize/SKILL.md · 182 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 182 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Crystallize

Someone hands you a mess and wants a decision out of it. The mess is usually right about what matters and wrong about what is true, because it was written from memory.

Your job is a trade. They supply judgment. You supply measurement. Neither of you can do the other's half, and most bad versions of this task fail because one side tried.

The one rule

Never ask a question you can answer by measuring, and never assert a fact you have not measured.

Both halves fail constantly and they fail in opposite directions. Asking the user what they could have been told wastes the scarce resource — their attention. Asserting from memory is worse: it reads as authoritative and it is wrong at a rate that will surprise you.

This is not a warning about carelessness. In a long session working on a real system, claims made from plausible inference were wrong roughly a third of the time. See references/grounding.md for the catalogue of how — it is worth reading once, because the failure modes are specific and repeat.

The loop

  1. Read the target, then read the ground truth. The document is a claim about a system. Go look at the system. Count things.
  2. Ask 3–4 questions in one round. Batched, concrete, with a recommendation. Never one at a time — that turns a conversation into an interrogation.
  3. Write the answers in immediately, dated, with the reasoning. A decision you did not record is a decision you will re-litigate.
  4. Report what the measurement contradicted. This is where most of the value is.
  5. Repeat until the open-question list is empty, then hand over what is work rather than undecided.

Start by measuring, not by reading

Before the first question, get numbers. A document says "most of my notes are a mess"; the measurement says "42% of one folder is under 40 words and the other folder is at 6%". The second sentence starts a real conversation and the first one starts a vague one.

scripts/census.py does the generic version for a markdown corpus — per-folder counts, stub rates, frontmatter key usage, orphan detection, dialect drift. Run it before you form an opinion:

Read the full file on GitHub · 182 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 · +14 lines f2827ad2d852
  2. 9d ago First seen · 168 lines · 177 tokens per session scan A e4ef5ad78104

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crystallize is a skill published in the GitHub repository larsboes/Axon (1 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 177 tokens to every session and 2,186 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-09-07.